Get a user by email
GET https://chat.zulip.org/api/v1/users/{email}
Fetch details for a single user in the organization given a Zulip
API email address.
You can also fetch details on all users in the organization
or by user ID.
Fetching by user ID is generally recommended when possible,
as a user might change their email address
or change their email address visibility,
either of which could change the client's ability to look them up by that
email address.
Changes: Starting with Zulip 10.0 (feature level 302), the real email
address can be used in the email parameter and will fetch the target user's
data if and only if the target's email visibility setting permits the requester
to see the email address.
The dummy email addresses of the form user{id}@{realm.host} still work, and
will now work for all users, via identifying them by the embedded user ID.
New in Zulip Server 4.0 (feature level 39).
Usage examples
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import zulip
# Pass the path to your zuliprc file here.
client = zulip.Client(config_file="~/zuliprc")
result = client.call_endpoint(
url=f"/users/{email}",
method="GET",
)
print(result)
curl -sSX GET -G https://chat.zulip.org/api/v1/users/iago@zulip.com \
-u BOT_EMAIL_ADDRESS:BOT_API_KEY
You may pass the client_gravatar or include_custom_profile_fields query parameter as follows:
curl -sSX GET -G https://chat.zulip.org/api/v1/users/iago@zulip.com \
-u BOT_EMAIL_ADDRESS:BOT_API_KEY \
--data-urlencode client_gravatar=false \
--data-urlencode include_custom_profile_fields=true
Parameters
email string required in path
Example: "iago@zulip.com"
The email address of the user to fetch. Two forms are supported:
-
The real email address of the user (delivery_email). The lookup will
succeed if and only if the user exists and their email address visibility
setting permits the client to see the email address.
-
The dummy Zulip API email address of the form user{user_id}@{realm_host}. This
is identical to simply getting user by ID. If the server or
realm change domains, the dummy email address used has to be adjustment to
match the new realm domain. This is legacy behavior for
backwards-compatibility, and will be removed in a future release.
Changes: Starting with Zulip 10.0 (feature level 302), lookups by real email
address match the semantics of the target's email visibility setting and dummy
email addresses work for all users, independently of their email visibility
setting.
Previously, lookups were done only using the Zulip API email addresses.
client_gravatar boolean optional
Example: false
Whether the client supports computing gravatars URLs. If
enabled, avatar_url will be included in the response only
if there is a Zulip avatar, and will be null for users who
are using gravatar as their avatar. This option
significantly reduces the compressed size of user data,
since gravatar URLs are long, random strings and thus do not
compress well. The client_gravatar field is set to true if
clients can compute their own gravatars.
Changes: The default value of this parameter was false
prior to Zulip 5.0 (feature level 92).
Defaults to true.
include_custom_profile_fields boolean optional
Example: true
Whether the client wants custom profile field
data to be included in the response.
Changes: New in Zulip 2.1.0. Previous versions do not offer these
data via the API.
Defaults to false.
Response
Return values
Example response(s)
Changes: As of Zulip 7.0 (feature level 167), if any
parameters sent in the request are not supported by this
endpoint, a successful JSON response will include an
ignored_parameters_unsupported array.
A typical successful JSON response may look like:
{
"msg": "",
"result": "success",
"user": {
"avatar_url": "https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/6d8cad0fd00256e7b40691d27ddfd466?d=identicon&version=1",
"bot_type": null,
"date_joined": "2019-10-20T07:50:53.729659+00:00",
"delivery_email": null,
"email": "hamlet@zulip.com",
"full_name": "King Hamlet",
"is_active": true,
"is_admin": false,
"is_billing_admin": false,
"is_bot": false,
"is_guest": false,
"is_owner": false,
"profile_data": {
"1": {
"rendered_value": "<p>+0-11-23-456-7890</p>",
"value": "+0-11-23-456-7890"
},
"2": {
"rendered_value": "<p>I am:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The prince of Denmark</li>\n<li>Nephew to the usurping Claudius</li>\n</ul>",
"value": "I am:\n* The prince of Denmark\n* Nephew to the usurping Claudius"
},
"3": {
"rendered_value": "<p>Dark chocolate</p>",
"value": "Dark chocolate"
},
"4": {
"value": "0"
},
"5": {
"value": "1900-01-01"
},
"6": {
"value": "https://blog.zulig.org"
},
"7": {
"value": "[11]"
},
"8": {
"value": "zulipbot"
}
},
"role": 400,
"timezone": "",
"user_id": 10
}
}