# Find users by key

You can find a user based on the key attribute. The key is also a cookie value of __ca__chat for this user.

GET /users/search/?key=:key

Attributes Type Required Description
key string yes A unique identifier (12 random characters) for the user which is given by User.com automatically.

# Request

  • CURL
  • JavaScript
  • PHP
  • Python
curl -X GET -H
"Authorization: Token \<your_64_char_api_key>"
"https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users/search/?key=:key"

# Response

{
  "first_seen": null,
  "notifications": true,
  "city": null,
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "tag",
      "id": 1441
    }
  ],
  "last_contacted": null,
  "page_views": 0,
  "status": "visitor",
  "chat_id": "Chat ID is deprecated and will be removed in future",
  "linkedin_url": null,
  "facebook_url": null,
  "gender": "unknown",
  "last_seen": null,
  "last_ip": null,
  "updated_at": "2017-06-07T10:29:15.955873Z",
  "gravatar_url": null,
  "id": 19678376,
  "os_type": null,
  "browser": null,
  "twitter_url": null,
  "lists": [],
  "created_at": "2017-06-07T09:41:13.466897Z",
  "name": "Jane Doe",
  "resolution": null,
  "timezone": null,
  "unsubscribed": false,
  "browser_language": null,
  "country": null,
  "google_url": null,
  "key": "g3FaYocCy0U6",
  "email": "example@email.com",
  "score": 0,
  "attributes": [
    {
      "value": true,
      "name": "Example attr",
      "name_std": "example_attr",
      "id": 1109
    },
    {
      "value": "attribute value",
      "name": "My string attr",
      "name_std": "my_string_attr",
      "id": 2429
    }
  ],
  "region": null,
  "phone_number": null
}