# Beeminder API Reference maybe out of date

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-api-reference-maybe-out-of-date/11977>\
**Category:** Bugabee\
**Created:** [October 27, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-api-reference-maybe-out-of-date/11977 "2024-10-27T20:17:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![ianm118](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/45deac/32.png) [@ianm118](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/ianm118)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-api-reference-maybe-out-of-date/11977/1 "2024-10-27T20:17:00Z")

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There may be some cases of the schema in the API Reference being mismatched with what is returned. For example user says it returns this schema:

```auto
  curl https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/users/alice.json?auth_token=abc123

  { "username": "alice",
    "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "updated_at": 1343449880,                       
    "goals": ["gmailzero", "weight"] }
  curl https://www.beeminder.com/api/v1/users/alice.json?diff_since=1352561989&auth_token=abc123
  { "username": "alice",
    "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles",
    "updated_at": 1343449880,                       
    "goals": [ {"slug": "weight", ...,
               "datapoints": [{"timestamp": 1325523600,    
                    "value": 70.45,            
                    "comment": "blah blah",     
                    "id": "4f9dd9fd86f22478d3"},
                   {"timestamp": 1325610000,
                    "value": 70.85,
                    "comment": "blah blah",
                    "id": "5f9d79fd86f33468d4"}],
               "title": "Weight Loss", ...},
               { another goal }, ... ],
    "deleted_goals": [{ "id": "519279fd86f33468ne"}, ...] }
    """
    username = username or self.default_user
    if not username:
        raise ValueError("Username must be provided either in arguments or as default.")
        
    params = {
        'redirect_to_url': redirect_to_url
    }
    
    return self._get(f"/users/{username}.json", params)

```

When I try it the response format is pretty different.

```auto
{
  "username": "example_user",
  "timezone": "America/New_York",
  "goals": ["goal1", "goal2", "goal3", "goal4", "goal5"],
  "created_at": 1729548032,
  "updated_at": 1730048622,
  "urgency_load": 24,
  "deadbeat": false,
  "has_authorized_fitbit": false,
  "default_leadtime": 0,
  "default_alertstart": 34200,
  "default_deadline": 0,
  "subscription": "plan_type",
  "subs_downto": "plan_type",
  "subs_freq": 12,
  "subs_lifetime": null,
  "remaining_subs_credit": 0,
  "id": "dummy_id_123"
}

```