GET /wiki/rest/api/user

Returns a user. This includes information about the user, such as the display name, account ID, profile picture, and more. The information returned may be restricted by the user's profile visibility settings.

Note: to add, edit, or delete users in your organization, see the user management REST API.

Permissions required: Permission to access the Confluence site ('Can use' global permission).

Servers

Query parameters

Name Type Required Description
accountId String Yes

The account ID of the user. The accountId uniquely identifies the user across all Atlassian products. For example, 384093:32b4d9w0-f6a5-3535-11a3-9c8c88d10192.

expand[] Array No

A multi-value parameter indicating which properties of the user to expand.

  • operations returns the operations that the user is allowed to do.
  • personalSpace returns the user's personal space, if it exists.
  • isExternalCollaborator(@deprecated) see isGuest in response to find out whether the user is a guest.

How to start integrating

  1. Add HTTP Task to your workflow definition.
  2. Search for the API you want to integrate with and click on the name.
    • This loads the API reference documentation and prepares the Http request settings.
  3. Click Test request to test run your request to the API and see the API's response.