How to get user name and ID from HTML

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Posted on by digital6

I need to get the user name and user ID in the HTML code of my website.

The user is logged in already so I want the user's first name for the bot to use and the user ID so I can fetch info in a mysql DB.

So in the beginning conversation I will start with Greeting and use the first name.

Other topics will take the ID and I guess use a Flow to get the data.

I have added this code in the html:

<script>
	var user_id = "52";
	var user_first_name = "david";

and

name: "startConversation",
	type: "event",
	value: {
	"user_id": "" + user_id + "",
	"user_first_name" : user_first_name

So I want to start with a Greeting that would say - "Hi David" by getting user_first_name

I will later use the user_id, but for now I want to get the user_first_name from the html code on the page the bot resides on and use it in the Conversation Start Topic.

So how do I get that in there as a variable?

I am use the newest bot version.

Thanks for you help

-Dave

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digital6 2 on at

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Re: How to get user name and ID from HTML

I want the bot to get the variables in the html code. How do I get them in the topic?
fernandosilva Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Re: How to get user name and ID from HTML

Hi @digital6 ,

On the new canvas there is a topic called Sign in already in place.

Cheers,
Fernando