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Get Info for a User

Summary

Get details of a single user in your site. Only site administrators can use this operation to list other user accounts.

You can only retrieve users associated with your site. Attempting to retrieve a user with a name taken by another site will result in a 404 NOT FOUND error.

Endpoint

GET https://mysite.files.com/v1.2/getUser

Replace mysite.files.com with your site address.

Request Parameters

NameData TypeDescription
access_tokenstringRequired. The session key that identifies which user is authenticated. Either an access token returned by the authenticateUser function, or a a Files.com user API Key.
usernamestringRequired. The login name of the user you are retrieving.

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