# How do I find the corresponding username via user ID?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-id/384781
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 6, 2025, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-id/384781 "2025-10-06T12:20:46Z")
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### Author: ![NateDhaliwal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/natedhaliwal/32/313494_2.png) [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2025, 12:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-id/384781/2 "2025-10-06T12:47:25Z")

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You may want to look at [this topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/find-users-by-id/70952). AFAIK you can’t access a user route with the user id like `/u/id`. Also the API docs are on getting user info from the user id are only by the admin route, it seems:

> **[Discourse API Docs](https://docs.discourse.org/#tag/Users/operation/adminGetUser)**

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