# Best way to get (via API) a list of users from a group, and their bios

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-to-get-via-api-a-list-of-users-from-a-group-and-their-bios/268332
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [June 14, 2023, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-to-get-via-api-a-list-of-users-from-a-group-and-their-bios/268332 "2023-06-14T17:23:19Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2023, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/best-way-to-get-via-api-a-list-of-users-from-a-group-and-their-bios/268332/4 "2023-06-14T19:15:26Z")

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> [@philip-ellis-sp](#):
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> Is there any way to do this using the publicly available APIs?

I don’t think there’s an endpoint that will give you all group members with their bio. You’ll need to loop through the users to get their bio. You can get group users from something like [https://meta.discourse.org/groups/support-experts/members.json?offset=0&order=&asc=true&filter=](https://meta.discourse.org/groups/support-experts/members.json?offset=0&order=&asc=true&filter=)

> [@philip-ellis-sp](#):
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> it looks like the bio might not be available unless you provide an API key.

[Profile - pfaffman - Discourse Meta](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman) shows my bio in an incognito window, so the bio might be available on your site to anonymous users, so you wouldn’t need an API key.

Maybe you want to look at [Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576)

> [@philip-ellis-sp](#):
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> We want to be able to access this data from a public site

I was once an academic. My wife does discourse analysis with tools like ATLAS.ti and I’ve spent some time pulling data from various sources to be analzed with various tools. Good luck to you!

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