# WebID Profile and Pod URLs

A [WebID](/reference/glossary.md#webid) is a unique URL that identifies an agent in the Solid ecosystem. Dereferencing the WebID yields a **publicly** readable [WebID Profile](/reference/glossary.md#webid-profile) document. A WebID Profile is an [RDF Resource](/reference/glossary.md#rdf-resource) that contains data about the user, such as the user’s Pod URLs.

To facilitate reading WebID Profile, Inrupt’s Java Client Libraries provide the [WebIdProfile](https://api.docs.inrupt.com/docs/developer-tools/api/java/inrupt-client/latest/com/inrupt/client/webid/WebIdProfile.html) class. For example, the following code reads the Pod URLs associated with the WebID.

```java
import com.inrupt.client.webid.WebIdProfile;

// ...

public Set<URI> getPods(String webID) {
    try (final var profile = client.read(URI.create(webID), WebIdProfile.class)) {
         return profile.getStorages();
    }
}
```

{% hint style="info" %}
**Note**

Although an RDF Resource, the WebID Profile is not necessarily hosted on a Solid Pod and may not necessarily be a Solid Resource per the [Solid Protocol](https://solidproject.org/TR/protocol). That is, the WebID Profile may be mapped to the [RDFSource](https://api.docs.inrupt.com/docs/developer-tools/api/java/inrupt-client/latest/com/inrupt/client/RDFSource.html) class (which is extended by [WebIdProfile](https://api.docs.inrupt.com/docs/developer-tools/api/java/inrupt-client/latest/com/inrupt/client/webid/WebIdProfile.html)) but not necessarily to the [SolidRDFSource](https://api.docs.inrupt.com/docs/developer-tools/api/java/inrupt-client/latest/com/inrupt/client/solid/SolidRDFSource.html).

As such, Solid applications cannot rely on the Solid Protocol to read and write the WebID profile. See also <https://solid.github.io/webid-profile/#introduction>.
{% endhint %}


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