# User API keys specification

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-keys-specification/48536
**Category:** Integrations
**Tags:** rest-api, reference
**Created:** [August 12, 2016, 2:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-keys-specification/48536 "2016-08-12T02:11:53Z")
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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: [October 26, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-api-keys-specification/48536/59 "2022-10-26T15:17:39Z")

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Welcome, @gilice.

You don’t mean that you’re consuming the API to get api keys, but that you’re trying to do _something_ with users?

This might help [Reverse engineer the Discourse API](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-engineer-the-discourse-api/20576).

But if you’re trying to get a user’s username, one way to do it is search the email address on the admin/users route.

It would help if you say what you’re trying to do.

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