How to get accountId from username

[Miraculous Ladybug]

When I have the username how can I get the accountId from the user? How can I find it via REST API? I dont have any other data except for the user name

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

You can use the Find users endpoint to do it, it takes either the display name or the email address to find the user. Get user endpoint used to take the username, but that has been deprecated because of GDPR, you can see the notice here.

[Miraculous Ladybug]

Thanks, is there a way to get the display name or the mail address via the user name?

[Mikael Sandberg]

If you are on Data Center/Server then the Get user endpoint still takes the username, it is only on Cloud that it does not, and on Cloud your username is your email.

[Miraculous Ladybug]

thank you, i didnt know that

[Elena Dzhordzhilova]

Hello,

About the Cloud, I would want to ask if it is possible to get the user’s email address via API, because the information which I get is for display_name, nickname and uuid. display_name and nickname are totally different from the username or email address. On other topics about it I see that it is private information, but shouldn’t be available for access via token or AppPassword? Is it possible to get such an information? Even with the specific uuid of the user with https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/users/<uuid>  does not return anything specific as this.

Thank you in advance! 

Best regards!

[Mikael Sandberg]

@Elena Dzhordzhilova This should be a separate question. Based on the documentation for Bitbucket you can only get the email address for the current user, there is no way of getting the email address for other users, at least not at the moment. For Jira and Confluence you can get the email by accessing the Get user endpoint.

[Rodney Dsouza _Atlassian Certified Expert_]

@Mikael Sandberg You mentioned using the "Find User" API call and I think you are referring to the "query" parameter to search by the person's name or email address, but that does seem to actually return any matches.

This seemed like an odd thing to leave in anyway, if Atlassian was getting away from people names due to GDPR.   So, maybe 'query' does not work either ?

I can get results if I specify an accountId as the parameter.

Thanks

[Mikael Sandberg]

@Rodney Dsouza _Atlassian Certified Expert_ Yes, the query is still working and it will return the user if it exists:

https://your-instance.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/user/search?query=the.email@somewhere.com