pb.profiles

Call pb.profiles(username) with a Packbase username to get a lazy ProfileHandle. This action does not make a network request. Await the handle to fetch the profile. Alternatively, call an action such as .follow() directly. The action does not fetch the profile first.

Fetch a profile

const profile = await pb.profiles('rek')

console.log(profile.display_name)
console.log(profile.about?.bio)

The result is a Profile. Some properties are optional because public and authenticated requests can receive different data.

Follow and unfollow

Following and unfollowing are separate server operations:

await pb.profiles('rek').follow()   // POST /user/:username/follow
await pb.profiles('rek').unfollow() // DELETE /user/:username/follow

Both methods finish without response data (Promise<void>). If you follow an account that you already follow, the server returns status 400. The server returns the same status if you unfollow an account that you do not follow.

Report a user

const ticket = await pb.profiles('rek').report(
  ReportReason.Spam,
  'Repeated unsolicited posts.',
)

console.log(ticket.id, ticket.status)

This sends POST /user/:username/report and returns a ReportResult.