documentation/content/en/entities/mention.md

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Mention	Represents a mention of a user within the content of a status.	docs parent entities

Example

{{< code title="excerpt from GET status:" >}}

{
  "mentions": [
    {
      "id": "952529",
      "username": "alayna",
      "url": "https://desvox.es/users/alayna",
      "acct": "alayna@desvox.es"
    },
    {
      "id": "14715",
      "username": "trwnh",
      "url": "https://mastodon.social/@trwnh",
      "acct": "trwnh"
    }
  ]
}

{{< /code >}}

Required attributes

id

Description: The account id of the mentioned user.
Type: String cast from an integer, but not guaranteed to be a number
Version history: Added in 0.6.0

username

Description: The username of the mentioned user.
Type: String
Version history: Added in 0.6.0

acct

Description: The webfinger acct: URI of the mentioned user. Equivalent to username for local users, or username@domain for remote users.
Type: String
Version history: Added in 0.6.0

url

Description: The location of the mentioned user's profile.
Type: String URL
Version history: Added in 0.6.0

See also

• [GET /api/v1/statuses/:id]({{< relref "../methods/statuses/#view-specific-status" >}})
• [Status#mentions]({{< relref "status.md#mentions" >}})

{{< page-ref page="status.md" >}}