Pulling Recent objects of a user via com api

You can use admin panel -> Event Log for that. Every accessed object is shown there

if I go through the event log there is a lot of items and keeps growing and I only want for a specific user. Is there a way to filter perhaps?

You can use Filtered View to setup relevant filters on users, time range, event type, object types and so on. The options are in place for you to get pretty close to what you need.

For example, my userid is 30 but the API requesting has id of 1 

For example, my userid is 30 but the API requesting has id of 1