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Retrieve information on a single log entry
:: services/logs/entry method

Minimum Authentication: Level 1 (see Authentication Levels)
https://www.opencaching.us/okapi/services/logs/entry

Retrieve information on a single log entry.
log_uuid required UUID of the log entry
fields optional

Default value: date|user|type|comment

Pipe-separated list of field names which you are interested with. Selected fields will be included in the response. See below fot the list of available fields.
user_fields optional

Default value: uuid|username|profile_url

Pipe-separated list of user fields to include in the user field. For valid field names, see the services/users/user method.
format optional Standard common formatting argument.
callback optional Standard common formatting argument.
Plus required consumer_key argument, assigned for your application.

Returned value:

A dictionary of fields you have selected. Currently available fields:

  • uuid - unique ID of the log entry,
  • cache_code - code of the cache which the log entry refers to,

  • date - date and time (ISO 8601) which was supplied with the log entry. For logs that reflect field action, e.g. "Found it", this usually is the date and time when that action took place. For other logs, it usually is the the date and time when the log was submitted.

    Please note that log entries often contain dates only (with the times truncated to midnight, as in the local timezone). In such cases, you may want to avoid displaying the time. You may assume that if the date value contains the "00:00:00" string, then it is date-only.

  • user - a dictionary of user fields that are selected by the user_fields option.

  • type - string; log type. One of the values documented below.

    Primary types, commonly used by all Opencaching installations:

    • "Found it" - a user found the cache (Non-Event caches).
    • "Didn't find it" - a user searched for, but couldn't find the cache (Non-Event caches).
    • "Comment".
    • "Will attend" - a user is planning to attend the event (for Event caches only).
    • "Attended" - a user has attended the event (for Event caches only).

    Types which indicate a change of state of the geocache or confirm the state at the given time:

    • "Temporarily unavailable" - log of this type indicates that the status of the cache was changed to "Temporarily unavailable" at that time, or it was confirmed as "Temporarily unavailable". Most probably the cache was not available to be found at that time, but it was expected to be repaired soon (and then, "Ready to search" log type would be submitted).
    • "Ready to search" - log of this type indicates that the status of this cache was changed back to "Available", or it was confirmed as "Available". After some period of not being available the cache became ready to be found again.
    • "Archived" - log of this type indicates that the status of this cache was changed to "Archived" at this point in time. This usually means that the cache could not be found anymore at this time, and it was not expected to be repaired any time soon.
    • "Locked" - the status of this cache was changed to "Locked" (similar to "Archived", but no more log entries are allowed on locked caches, except by the owner and OC team members.) OKAPI currently does not expose locked caches, but the "Locked" log entry will become visible if the cache is unlocked.

    Other types:

    • "Needs maintenance" - the user stated that the cache was in need of maintenance.
    • "Maintenance performed" - the cache owner stated that he has performed the maintenance.
    • "Moved" - the cache was moved to a different location.
    • "OC Team comment" - a comment made by the official OC Team member.
    • (to be continued) - this list MAY expand in time! Your application should accept unknown log types (you may treat them as "Comment"s).

  • oc_team_entry - true if the log entry was made by an official OC team member and marked as administrative log; false if it has not been marked.

    Note: false does NOT mean that it is no administrative log, because this flag can be missing for (mostly old) admin logs.

  • was_recommended - true if the author included his recommendation in this log entry,

  • needs_maintenance2 - log entry authors may include an additional report on the condition of the geocache at the given date (indicate if the cache needed maintenance).

    You could say that the values of this field reflect the values of the needs_maintenance2 parameter used to submit the log entry (however, the log itself might have been submitted through other means). Possible values are:

    • true - in the author's opinion, the geocache was in poor condition and needed maintenance,
    • false - in the author's opinion, the geocache was in good or acceptable condition and did not need maintenance (anymore),
    • null - the author did not include any report on the condition of the geocache.

  • OCDE listing_is_outdated - log entry authors may include an additional report on the state of the geocache listing at the given date (indicate if needs to be updated). This information currently cannot be submitted through OKAPI but only retrieved. Possible values are:

    • true - in the author's opinion, the listing was outdated and needed to be updated. E.g. the place where the geocache is hidden has changed, so that it no longer matches the information in the listing; or important information is missing that was published by the geocache owner at another website.
    • false - in the author's opinion, the listing was up-to-date.
    • null - the author did not include any report on the state of the geocache listing.

    Please note that some OC installations do not implement this flag and will always return null.

  • comment - HTML string, text entered with the log entry,

  • location - the location of the geocache that was provided by the logger, in "lat|lon" format (lat and lon are in full degrees with a dot as a decimal point); null if no location was provided. For "Moved" logs this is the location where the cache has been moved to, for all other types of log the location where the cache has been found.

    Note that currently no OC site allows to log a location for other types than "Moved", so currently it is always null for other logs than "Moved".

  • images - list of dictionaries, each dictionary represents one image saved along with the log; each dictionary has the following structure:

    • uuid - UUID of the image,
    • url - URL of the image,
    • thumb_url - URL of a small (thumb) version of the image,
    • caption - plain-text string, caption of the image,
    • is_spoiler - boolean, if true then the image is a spoiler image and should not be displayed to the user unless the user explicitly asks for it.

  • date_created - date (ISO 8601, no time) indicating when the log entry was submitted.

  • last_modified - date (ISO 8601, no time) indicating when the log entry was most recently edited. If the log was not edited, the returned value is identical to date_created.

  • internal_id - you should not use this unless you really know you need to. Internal IDs are not unique across various OKAPI installations. Try to use UUIDs instead.

Note that some fields can change in time (users can edit/delete their log entries).

If given log entry does not exist, the method will respond with an HTTP 400 error.