# "Get a user by id" can't get email
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-a-user-by-id-cant-get-email/189913
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** rest-api
**Created:** [May 10, 2021, 10:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-a-user-by-id-cant-get-email/189913 "2021-05-10T10:58:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Programer-D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Programer-D)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2021, 10:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-a-user-by-id-cant-get-email/189913/1 "2021-05-10T10:58:16Z")
> **[Discourse API Docs](https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Users/paths/~1admin~1users~1%7Bid%7D.json/get)**
I want to use the “Get a user by id” API to get the email of a user.
I can get the user information, but the email is not included in the response.
There is also no parameter to be given. Is there any other setting I need to do?
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2021, 11:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-a-user-by-id-cant-get-email/189913/2 "2021-05-10T11:46:50Z")
The email address is available only in the admin/user route. It’s behind an extra click in the ux. You can likely figure it out using [How to reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576)
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### Author:  [@Programer-D](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Programer-D)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-a-user-by-id-cant-get-email/189913/3 "2021-05-10T12:22:47Z")
I understand it perfectly.
I was able to get the email address using /u/:username/emails.json.
Thank you very much for your answer.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-a-user-by-id-cant-get-email/189913/4 "2021-06-09T12:22:51Z")
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