API: fetch all users with external id info

[11117 (Владислав Левин)]

Hello,
Is there a way to fetch all users so the result for each one contains the external id ?
Didn’t find this on API documentation page, but maybe i missed something

[Falco]

Did you try the export in the Admin > Users page?

[11117 (Владислав Левин)]

Thank you for the reply! It works.
So, there is no way to do this using api request, only by Discourse UI ?

[zogstrip (Régis Hanol)]

Everything you do with the UI can be done via the API.

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