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Get a user

GET
/users/{selected_user}

Gets the public information associated with a user account.

If the user’s profile is private, location, website and created_on elements are omitted.

Note that the user object returned by this operation is changing significantly, due to privacy changes. See the announcement for details.

Authorizations

Section titled “ Authorizations ”

Parameters

Section titled “ Parameters ”

Path Parameters

Section titled “ Path Parameters ”
selected_user
required
string

This can either be an Atlassian Account ID OR the UUID of the account, surrounded by curly-braces, for example: {account UUID}.

Responses

Section titled “ Responses ”

200

Section titled “ 200 ”

The user object

Media type application/json
object
type
required
string
links
Account Links

Links related to an Account.

object
avatar
Link

A link to a resource related to this object.

object
href
string format: uri
name
string
key
additional properties
any
created_on
string format: date-time
display_name
string
uuid
string
Example generated 
{
  "type": "example",
  "links": {
    "avatar": {
      "href": "https://example.com",
      "name": "example"
    }
  },
  "created_on": "2026-04-15T12:00:00Z",
  "display_name": "example",
  "uuid": "example"
}

404

Section titled “ 404 ”

If no user exists for the specified UUID, or if the specified account is a team account, not a personal account.

Media type application/json
Error

Base type for most resource objects. It defines the common type element that identifies an object’s type. It also identifies the element as Swagger’s discriminator.

object
type
required
string
error
object
message
required
string
detail
string
data

Optional structured data that is endpoint-specific.

object
key
additional properties
any
key
additional properties
any
Example generated 
{
  "type": "example",
  "error": {
    "message": "example",
    "detail": "example",
    "data": {}
  }
}