Bug in member profile end point - Resolved.

https://api.chess.com/pub/player/ElenaStamataki

Web page shows location as "England"  https://www.chess.com/member/ElenaStamataki

API end point does not include "location" data

That's curious because when I check my own endpoint I see the correct location. But I don't when I look at a friend's data...

https://api.chess.com/pub/player/proximo

{"avatar":"https://images.chesscomfiles.com/uploads/v1/user/6681776.6a383d7a.200x200o.6d9691519153.jpeg","player_id":6681776,"@id":"https://api.chess.com/pub/player/proximo","url":"https://www.chess.com/member/Proximo","name":"DW","username":"proximo","followers":192,"country":"https://api.chess.com/pub/country/NL","last_online":1564040093,"joined":1329435866,"status":"premium","is_streamer":false}

Is it because 'location' is not the same as 'country'? I have my country/flag set as Wales but I also identify my location as 'Swansea', my home town. Those members who leave their location fields blank presumably give a null return for that in their endpoints?

The "location" field is whatever the member has set for their country. @proximo does't appear to have set that. He has set his name:

"name":"DW"

For @TrickyDicky's user, they've a country set (I think you have to have, even if it's "International" which will be country "XX") but the county is England ("XE", since chess.com give the option, otherwise would have to be "UK").

IMHO, no bug, just data not present in those users' profiles.

Stephen in your Location do you include Wales or is it just Swansea?

It looks as though Giles may be right. Not a bug. C.C code seems to auto adds the country based on flag to location but this isn't present in user location field.

You can change your country flag and location through profile settings. Someone could say they're from Tokyo, Japan when in reality they could be in Greenland.

I know I wasn't asked, by for my location I entered only "Melbourne". Australia shows up because that's the country I set (I assume). I certainly didn't type it in.

Thanks Giles. Yes looks to be that C.C adds flag name to location on profile page. No bugs here.

This is what I see on my settings page:-

..so I imagine that if the location field is left blank, no data for "location" is returned in the endpoint. A little like a member's avatar, if the default is used then "avatar" is absent in the endpoint.

Yes. Logical. Thanks Stephen.