How to get the device mac address or unique id from portal

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Hi Experts,

I have one requirement where the client wants to capture the device mac address or some unique id.

Is there any way by which we can get that from the portal?

Thanks,

Amit

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oliver.rodrigues 9,342 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Re: How to get the device mac address or unique id from portal

Oh okay, I see what you need now. For some reason I was reading device IP and not device ID

My understanding is that it is not possible, exposing this information would be a security vulnerability so I don't think you will be able to meet your requirement.
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Re: How to get the device mac address or unique id from portal

Hi @OliverRodrigues
Yes, I want to get the Client Device Unique ID or Mac Id.
The approach which you mentioned will give me the IP address but that is related to the network with which the device is connected but I want to get the unique id for the device irrespective of network connection.
Basically, I want to get the device id to store in CDS to track the user activity for specific functionality.
For example, if I logged into the power apps portal using my credential from my mobile then I want to get the unique and which I will store in Entity. but if I log in to the portal from another device then it will give a different id which will store in Entity.

Any help will be appreciable.

Thanks,
Amit
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Re: How to get the device mac address or unique id from portal

hi do you need to know the client's ip address or the Portal's ip address?

if the Portals check the above from @AdamP that should work for you

if you need the client's you can use cloudfare or some other online methods:

$.get('https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace', function(data) { console.log(data) })

returns:

fl=52f17
h=www.cloudflare.com
ip=xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ts=1603989108.186
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36
colo=DUB
http=http/2
loc=IE
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off
gateway=off

once you have this you might need to call the Portals API to store in your CDS if needed
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Re: How to get the device mac address or unique id from portal

Each portal has a unique id that can be found by adding /_services/about to the URL.
You could also pull data from the cookie. There is a ARRAfinity value however this is for a web app instance and each portal could have more than 1.