{"id":484,"date":"2025-12-11T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geonv.com\/blog\/?p=484"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:32:47","slug":"howto-convert-a-geocacher-id-number-to-their-geocaching-name-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geonv.com\/blog\/blog\/archives\/484","title":{"rendered":"Howto Convert a Geocacher ID number to a Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a number of different ways that geocaching.com represents a user:  the User ID number, the Geocacher Name (handle), the guid (Geocaching User ID?) and the PR number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><kbd><strong>Enter the user's geocaching ID number into the block below to find their geocacher name.<\/strong><\/kbd><\/p>\n\n\n\n<form name=\"id\" action=\"https:\/\/www.geocaching.com\/p\/?id\" method=\"get\">\n\t  <table>\n\t\t<tr>\n\t\t  <td align=\"right\" width=\"110\">\n\t\t\t<label for=\"id\"><b>ID Number:<\/b><\/label>\n\t\t  <\/td>\n\t\t  <td nowrap=\"nowrap\">\n\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" size=\"10\" name=\"id\" id=\"id\" value=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" \/>\n\t\t  <\/td>\n\t\t<\/tr>\n\t  <\/table>\n<p style=\"font-size: smaller;\"><i>Note:  this will take you to the member&#8217;s profile page<\/i><\/p>\n\t<\/form>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><p style=\"font-size: larger;\"><b>Further Discussion regarding a geocachers ID number, their geocaching name, their PR number, and now guid&#8217;s (geocache user ID)<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every user is assigned an ID number, sequentially, when they sign up for an account at geocaching.com.  For example, mine is &#8216;1682662&#8217;.  If you copy that into the ID number block above, it will take you to my account profile page. From there you can see my geocaching handle, &#8216;VegasScotty&#8217;, under my profile picture.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The steps below will work from anyone&#8217;s profile page (you must be logged in to view profile pages).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To see my ID number<\/strong>, look to the right of my geocaching name and photo at the four links.  First, hover <sup data-fn=\"e1b855e4-ea75-425e-8b8b-6b79f55082f8\" class=\"fn\"><a href=\"#e1b855e4-ea75-425e-8b8b-6b79f55082f8\" id=\"e1b855e4-ea75-425e-8b8b-6b79f55082f8-link\">1<\/a><\/sup> your cursor over the link that says, &#8220;View forum posts&#8221;.  Behind the word &#8216;profile&#8217; will be my user number, 1682662.  (It should actually say &#8216;1682662-VegasScotty&#8217;, the number is my ID number, the rest is my user name.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To see someone&#8217;s guid<\/strong>, hover your cursor over the link that says, &#8220;Send e-mail&#8221;, and you will see their guid. It is a long nonsensical string of character some 31 digits in length which follows &#8216;guid=&#8217; in that link.  Many page links at geocaching.com now use the guid to reference each geocacher.  I guess it makes sense to the computers but most of us just go with their geocaching name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, all geocaching users have a shorter, possibly more user friendly &#8220;PR&#8221; number.  To find this number, first convert their geocaching ID number to  a GC number.  This requires a special base 31 conversion, that you can find online, for example <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cachesleuth.com\/gcid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">at the CacheSleuth website, here.<\/a>  Once you&#8217;ve gotten the GC number, drop the &#8216;GC&#8217; at the front, and replace it with &#8216;PR&#8217;.  Then you can easily link to it using &#8220;coord.info\/pr#####&#8217;.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, my GC ID is 1682662. Converting that makes my GC number GC288QB. Which means my PR number is PR288QB. And you can view my profile by going to <a href=\"https:\/\/coord.info\/pr288qb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">coord.info\/pr288qb<\/a>. Whew, that seems like a long way around, but the &#8216;coord.info&#8217; works with PR (profile) numbers, GC (geocache) numbers,  TB (travelbug) numbers, BM (bookmark lists), and possible others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><ol class=\"wp-block-footnotes has-small-font-size\"><li id=\"e1b855e4-ea75-425e-8b8b-6b79f55082f8\">Hover means to hold your cursor over a link without clicking on the link. Just hold it there and most web browsers will\u00a0show you the link you\u2019re hovering over, so you can see where you\u2019re going before you click. It\u2019s a safety thing, all browsers should do that. 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