Comments on: Finding Your Avatar Profile on the Web

By: AshleyMarie Eberhardt

AshleyMarie Eberhardt — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:47:45 +0000

Just FYI – after you highlight the URL in the search window, you can click-drag and drop the highlighted text onto your web browser in OS X. Not sure about Windows though.

By: life

life — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:34:04 +0000

u can use the search facility also with the toolbar 4 sl:
http://www.sl-toolbar.eu/sl/english/english.html

By: Nick Noakes

Nick Noakes — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:27:17 +0000

Debbie has some other great free scripts on her SL wiki page too! (thanks Debbie from Corwin )

By: Debbie Trilling

Debbie Trilling — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:58:14 +0000

You can get the actual open source code that shows how to do this using LSL from my LLab wiki page at:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:debbie_Trilling

then follow the link for ‘Random AV profile Projector’…

full help, plus an explanation is given on the online ‘Help’ page

By: Nick Noakes

Nick Noakes — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:41:07 +0000

Yet another (simpler?) way:

[caveat: this of course is only for the main grid and I'm assuming only if show in search is checked in the avatar's profile]

Go to:

http://search.secondlife.com/search.php

select SL People in the drop down, type in the avatar name, hit Go

1st hit usually gives you the link which will open up the SL client

secondlife:///app/agent/avatar UUID #/about

2nd hit usually gives you the direct link to view the profile online (the same one you see for the Search browser in the client when using the All tab)

http://world.secondlife.com/resident/avatar UUID #

By: Paul Decelles (Simone Gateaux)

Paul Decelles (Simone Gateaux) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:36:07 +0000

Alan,

Could be a browser issue. I am in the Mac world at work and I have had problems with browsers not picking up long urls. I use Firefox generally on the Mac NOT Safari. Right now I am home on my Vista machine and Firefox works fine here as well on getting the SL links.

By: CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine)

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:05:16 +0000

@Paul Decelles: Thanks Paul, not sure why my Mac was being squirrely today, good to know you can copy and paste and not use pencils!

By: Paul Decelles

Paul Decelles — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:51:34 +0000

Alan,

I posted a clunky way to do this on SLED but after that I decided to poke around with your method and I don’t understand why you couldn’t grab off the whole url. I tried it in Firefox on my Mac and it works great.

I posted about this just now at:

http://theforcethat.blogspot.com/2008/08/warning-second-life-geek-attack.html

I don’t know why SL doesn’t use a single profile. My forum profile is not linked to the SL profile and that just strikes me as weird.

Thanks for you post about this here and on SLED. I learned something new today so I guess I can go home and play Second Life.

Paul (Simone Gateaux)

By: Fleep Tuque

Fleep Tuque — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:53:02 +0000

Definitely agree, one of those things that is totally confusing and not new-user friendly at all. Even more annoying is that this appears to be the ONLY way to get your profile on the web, doesn’t even come up if you search the site or anything. I don’t get it at all.

By: CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine)

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:14:45 +0000

@Eloise: Yes, but how does an obvious n00b like me know my key? Could not find it in SL interface, nor logged into SL site.

@Fleep: Thanks those help indeed, but its pretty opaque for someone not in the know