GET (/users/xuid({xuid}))

Discover the presence of another user or client. The domain for these URIs is userpresence.xboxlive.com.

• Remarks
• URI parameters
• Query string parameters
• Authorization
• Effect of privacy settings on resource
• Required Request Headers
• Optional Request Headers
• Request body
• Response body

Remarks

The response can be filtered to provide part of the PresenceRecord if the consumer is not interested in the entire object.

Note:
The data returned is constrained by privacy and content isolation rules.

URI parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
xuid	64-bit unsigned integer	Xbox User ID (XUID) of the target user.

Query string parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
level	string	Optional. user: Returns only the user node. device: Returns user node and device nodes. title: Default. Returns the whole tree except activity. all: Returns the whole tree, including activity-level presence.

Authorization

Type	Required	Description	Response if missing
XUID	Yes	Xbox User ID (XUID) of the caller	403 Forbidden

Effect of privacy settings on resource

This method always returns 200 OK, but might not return content in the response body.

Requesting User	Target User's Privacy Setting	Behavior
me	-	200 OK
friend	everyone	200 OK
friend	friends only	200 OK
friend	blocked	200 OK
non-friend user	everyone	200 OK
non-friend user	friends only	200 OK
non-friend user	blocked	200 OK
third-party site	everyone	200 OK
third-party site	friends only	200 OK
third-party site	blocked	200 OK

Required Request Headers

Header	Type	Description
Authorization	string	Authentication credentials for HTTP authentication. Example value: "XBL3.0 x=<userhash>;<token>".
x-xbl-contract-version	string	Build name/number of the Xbox LIVE service to which this request should be directed. The request will only be routed to that service after verifying the validity of the header, the claims in the auth token, and so on. Example values: 3, vnext.
Accept	string	Content-Types that are acceptable. The only one supported by Presence is application/json, but it must be specified in the header.
Accept-Language	string	Acceptable locale for strings in the response. Example values: en-US.
Host	string	Domain name of the server. Example value: presencebeta.xboxlive.com.

Optional Request Headers

Header	Type	Description
X-RequestedServiceVersion		Build name/number of the Xbox LIVE service to which this request should be directed. The request will only be routed to that service after verifying the validity of the header, the claims in the auth token, and so on. Default value: 1.

Request body

No objects are sent in the body of this request.

Response body

Sample response

If there is no existing record for the user, a record with no devices is returned.

{
  xuid:"0123456789",
  state:"online",
  devices:
  [{
    type:"D",
    titles:
    [{
      id:"12341234",
      name:"Contoso 5",
      state:"active",
      placement:"fill",
      timestamp:"2012-09-17T07:15:23.4930000",
      activity:
      {
        richPresence:"Team Deathmatch on Nirvana"
      }
    },
    {
      id:"12341235",
      name:"Contoso Waypoint",
      timestamp:"2012-09-17T07:15:23.4930000",
      placement:"snapped",
      state:"active",
      activity:
      {
        richPresence:"Using radar"
      }
    }]
  },
  {
    type:W8,
    titles:
    [{
      id:"23452345",
      name:"Contoso Gamehelp",
      state:"active",
      placement:"full",
      timestamp:"2012-09-17T07:15:23.4930000",
      activity:
      {
        richPresence:"Nirvana page",
      }
    }]
  }]
}

See also

Parent

/users/xuid({xuid})