Endpoint for User Information

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Hi all!

I would like to know if there is currently (or could be implemented) an endpoint that contains information about the user

I am making an application that uses the User API Keys, everything works perfectly, but I would like to get information about the user who “logged in using their User API Key”

Something like “discourse.example.com/user.json”

Currently I did not find something like this in Discourse API Docs, and also not while reverse engineering the API

If someone could guide me I would be very grateful!

Thanks in advance!

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Does https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alexander.json give you what you want?

Oops. Sorry.

The API Docs don’t always keep up with everything, check outHow to reverse engineer the Discourse API.

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Not really at first

Since I have not found how to obtain, at least, the username of the user

That is why an endpoint like the one I mentioned above could be useful to obtain information, even very basic, of the current user

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I don’t think we’ve got an official endpoint to finding out “who I am” without giving a username.

However, you can still detect it by way of following https://meta.discourse.org/my/summary down a bit - that will redirect to the current user’s page.

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It’s not officially in the API docs, but I think https://meta.discourse.org/session/current.json might be useful for this purpose

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It is exactly what I needed! :smiley:

Thank you very much!!

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