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Check friends list
By ManikantanV, history, 9 years ago, In English

Is there a way to check list of users who have added me as friend in Codeforces?

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5 years ago, # |
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No there is no such way to look for users who have added you as their friend but I hope this feature soon gets established on Codeforces!!

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      Early nowadays.

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5 years ago, # |
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What good would it be? Will you get a sense of worth that people are following you?

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    Good job digging this post from the grave. If I'm not wrong, the intention was to identify anyone I might know who were following me and follow them in return

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https://codeforces.net/apiHelp/methods#user.friends I think using this API, you can view your friends list. But it says it requires authorization. I'm not even sure whether it is possible or not. If it is possible, someone please tell how to do it!!

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    Well, I read the docs and tried the api method myself. Conclusion? It only returns the list of the users YOU have added as a friend. NOT THE USERS WHO ADDED YOU. Also, it needs authentication so you cannot check whether a person has added you or not either. In other words, it is useless in this usecase. And sorry that I downvoted you for making my hopes high.

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I have recently been spammed by team invites from a user I didn't know and realized how this could be exploited to check if someone has you on their friendlist. (I am not saying you should do this). Lets say you want to check if you are on my friendlist:

  1. Create a new codeforces account.
  2. Create a team and spam-invite me to your team. I will quickly get annoyed and set "Receive team invitations only from friends" to true.
  3. Send me a team invite from your main account. If it says "invitation pending" this means you are on my friend list. If it says something like "invitation not possible" it means you are not on my friend list.
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    Cool idea! But I have one issue sirs. It says I have a whopping amount of 1 (one in English language) friends, but when I check my friendlists, its empty :(. It makes me very sad://! So I was considering applying your technique on tourist MikeMirzayanov or jiangly as they seem to have a lot of friends :). But man, what if Mike acutally didnt add me as his friend? I wouldnt want to find out :/. So herie's my request kindliest Sir. Since codeforces has HUGE database of users, what if we combine our greatest powers to make the works easier upon us? (Note that 2 peoeple working in parallel at the constant speed C, will halve the the amount of time to finish work W) . So here is my undeniable offer for you: You will help me find my ONLY friend and I will give away my young AND beautiful daugther to marry you. (but please for the love of god dont spam my big boy Mikey)! May god bless you with rich life and wholesome chlidren. Thank you in advance :)!

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