Hi!
I'm trying to write a python script to extract certain users from a contest's standings(Hello 2022 in this case), but most of the time I get an error because some people have changed their handle ever since that contest. I am combining contest.standings and user.info methods to extract the users that satisfy the given conditions. are there any other routes to achieve this goal or am I doing something wrong?
EDIT : in this case(Hello 2022), the user MiracleFaFa has changed their handle from Retired_MiFaFaOvO to MiracleFaFa.
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You can try using the fact that codeforces redirects links corresponding to previous handles to the links corresponding to new handles.
This will give https://codeforces.net/profile/MiracleFaFa. Use it to extract new handles