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title: "Account"
slug: "081-core-account"
updated: 2025-05-23T22:31:46Z
published: 2025-05-23T22:31:46Z
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# Account

**Account Module 0.8.1 | Core SDK**

## Overview

A module for querying about the device account.

## OpenRPC

Firebolt APIs are maintained in the [rdkcentral/firebolt-core-sdk](https://github.com/rdkcentral/firebolt-core-sdk) GitHub repository.

You can see this API in the [account.json](https://github.com/rdkcentral/firebolt-core-sdk/blob/main/src/modules/account.json) OpenRPC JSON-Schema document.

## Usage

To use the Account module, you can import it into your project from the Firebolt SDK:

```
import { Account } from '@firebolt-js/sdk'
```

## Methods

### id

Get the platform back-office account identifier

To get the value, call the method with no parameters:

```
function id(): Promise<string>
```

Promise resolution:

| Type | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `string` | the id |

**Examples**

Default Example

JavaScript:

```
import { Account } from '@firebolt-js/sdk'

Account.id()
    .then(id => {
        console.log(id)
    })
```

Value of `id`:

```
"123"
```

**JSON-RPC:**

Request:

```
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "account.id",
  "params": {}
}
```

Response:

```
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "123"
}
```

### uid

Gets a unique id for the current app & account

To get the value, call the method with no parameters:

```
function uid(): Promise<string>
```

Promise resolution:

| Type | Description |
| --- | --- |
| `string` | a unique ID |

**Examples**

Getting the unique ID

JavaScript:

```
import { Account } from '@firebolt-js/sdk'

Account.uid()
    .then(uniqueId => {
        console.log(uniqueId)
    })
```

Value of `uniqueId`:

```
"ee6723b8-7ab3-462c-8d93-dbf61227998e"
```

**JSON-RPC:**

Request:

```
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "account.uid",
  "params": {}
}
```

Response:

```
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "result": "ee6723b8-7ab3-462c-8d93-dbf61227998e"
}
```