# How can we get Encoded Serial Number of Photoshop in UXP?

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**Category:** UXP Plugin API\
**Tags:** feature-request, uxp, javascript\
**Created:** [February 28, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/how-can-we-get-encoded-serial-number-of-photoshop-in-uxp/5941 "2023-02-28T04:25:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Niraj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Niraj](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/Niraj)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 4:25am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/how-can-we-get-encoded-serial-number-of-photoshop-in-uxp/5941/1 "2023-02-28T04:25:13Z")

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Hi all,  
Can we get “Encoded Serial Number” of Photoshop via UXP?  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![DavideBarranca](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/davidebarranca/32/1523_2.png) [@DavideBarranca](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/DavideBarranca)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/how-can-we-get-encoded-serial-number-of-photoshop-in-uxp/5941/2 "2023-02-28T07:42:57Z")

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There might be ways to get something related to user identification in future releases of UXP, but ATM to the best of my knowledge the app’s `"serialInfo"` (now `"serialString"`) is either unavailable or guardrailed/available only to 1P plugins. Also dumping `"systemInfo"` and grepping the serial number from there isn’t viable for the same reason.  
TL;DR nope.

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**Author:** ![Karmalakas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/karmalakas/32/1048_2.png) [@Karmalakas](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/Karmalakas)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 7:53am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/how-can-we-get-encoded-serial-number-of-photoshop-in-uxp/5941/3 "2023-02-28T07:53:38Z")

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OT: I’ll just leave this here 😂

> <https://writing.stackexchange.com/questions/32819/where-should-i-put-my-tldr/32827#32827>

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**Author:** ![svumme](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/svumme/32/1289_2.png) [@svumme](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/svumme)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 9:32am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/how-can-we-get-encoded-serial-number-of-photoshop-in-uxp/5941/4 "2023-02-28T09:32:25Z")

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I was thinking of using Rust + webassembly. although I think it’s absurd and I see no reason why not allow to identify a machine.  
@Niraj I reply here also for the post on macaddress . I think the purpose is to uniquely identify a machine.

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**Author:** ![Jarda](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/jarda/32/1909_2.png) [@Jarda](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/u/Jarda)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2023, 11:37am UTC](https://forums.creativeclouddeveloper.com/t/how-can-we-get-encoded-serial-number-of-photoshop-in-uxp/5941/5 "2023-02-28T11:37:20Z")

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Unless Windows 11 user will turn this on… which changes MAC address every time he turns on PC 😅

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