Cases when admin/users.json?email=foobar or admin/users/list/all.json?email=foobar return empty array

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Ya its totally fine. You can keep using /admin/users.json. It uses the exact same underlying code as as /admin/users/list/{flag}.json. That’s probably one of the reasons it hasn’t been documented yet.

I’m able to get /admin/users.json to return a brand new user without any topics.

curl -i -sSL -X GET "http://localhost:4200/admin/users.json?email=982f145c7@example.com"  \
-H "Api-Key: ..."  \
-H "Api-Username: blake"

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

[
  {
    "id": 2731,
    "username": "982f145c7",
    "name": "982f145c7",
    "avatar_template": "/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/9/46a35a/{size}.png",
    "active": true,
    "admin": false,
    "moderator": false,
    "last_seen_at": null,
    "last_emailed_at": null,
    "created_at": "2025-04-29T12:31:52.894Z",
    "last_seen_age": null,
    "last_emailed_age": null,
    "created_at_age": 103.259451,
    "trust_level": 1,
    "manual_locked_trust_level": null,
    "title": null,
    "time_read": 0,
    "staged": false,
    "can_be_deleted": true,
    "silence_reason": "",
    "days_visited": 0,
    "posts_read_count": 0,
    "topics_entered": 0,
    "post_count": 0
  }
]

You do need to make sure you use the exact email address or you will get an empty array as a result.