# Wrong Username from API

**URL:** <https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/wrong-username-from-api/23925>\
**Category:** API\
**Created:** [January 31, 2020, 3:28pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/wrong-username-from-api/23925 "2020-01-31T15:28:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://discuss.dev.twitch.com/t/wrong-username-from-api/23925/2 "2020-01-31T15:30:42Z")

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This is a often reported issue! Did you search the forums first?

See also: [https://github.com/twitchdev/issues/issues/3](https://github.com/twitchdev/issues/issues/3)

You can obtain the correct “login” by parsing the “thumbnail\_url” or making an additional call to the users API with the user id from the streams endpoint

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