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Get a User by Name

Note

Groups and projects are synonymous terms. Your {PROJECT-ID} is the same as your project id. For existing groups, your group/project id remains the same. This page uses the more familiar term group when referring to descriptions. The endpoint remains as stated in the document.

You can always retrieve your own user account. Otherwise, you must have the Project User Admin role in at least one project that is common between you and the user you are retrieving.

You cannot use this endpoint to return information on an API Key. Request the Get One API Key endpoint to get this information.

Base URL: https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0

Resource

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GET /users/byName/{USER-NAME}

Request Path Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
USER-NAME	string	(Required.) Username of the MongoDB user that you want to retrieve.

Request Query Parameters

The following query parameters are optional:

Name	Type	Necessity	Description	Default
pretty	boolean	Optional	Flag indicating whether the response body should be in a prettyprint format.	false
envelope	boolean	Optional	Flag that indicates whether or not to wrap the response in an envelope. Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query. For endpoints that return one result, the response body includes: Name Description status HTTP response code envelope Expected response body	false

Request Body Parameters

This endpoint does not use HTTP request body parameters.

Response

The HTTP document contains each of the following elements:

Name	Type	Description
emailAddress	string	Email address of the Cloud Manager user.
firstName	string	First name of the Cloud Manager user.
id	string	Unique identifier of the Cloud Manager user.
lastName	string	Last name of the Cloud Manager user.
links	object array	Links to related sub-resources. All links arrays in responses include at least one link called self. The relationship between URLs are explained in the Web Linking Specification.
mobileNumber	string	Mobile number of the Cloud Manager user.
roles	object array	Role assignments.
roles.groupId	string	Unique identifier for the project in which the user has the specified role.
roles.orgId	string	Unique identifier for the organization in which the user has the specified role.
roles.roleName	string	Name of the role. Values are: Note The users resource returns all the roles the user has in both Cloud Manager and MongoDB Atlas. Value Description ORG_MEMBER Organization Member ORG_READ_ONLY Organization Read Only ORG_BILLING_ADMIN Organization Billing Admin ORG_GROUP_CREATOR Organization Project Creator ORG_OWNER Organization Owner GROUP_ATLAS_ADMIN Project Admin (Atlas) GROUP_AUTOMATION_ADMIN Project Automation Admin GROUP_BACKUP_ADMIN Project Backup Admin GROUP_MONITORING_ADMIN Project Monitoring Admin GROUP_OWNER Project Owner GROUP_READ_ONLY Project Read Only GROUP_USER_ADMIN Project User Admin GROUP_BILLING_ADMIN Project Billing Admin GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_ADMIN Project Data Access Admin GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_ONLY Project Data Access Read Only GROUP_DATA_ACCESS_READ_WRITE Project Data Access Read/Write
username	string	Username of the Cloud Manager user.

Example Request

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curl --user "{PUBLIC-KEY}:{PRIVATE-KEY}" --digest \
 --header "Accept: application/json" \
 --include \
 --request GET "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/public/v1.0/users/byName/jane"

Example Response

Response Header

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized
Content-Type: application/json;charset=ISO-8859-1
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="MMS Public API", domain="", nonce="{nonce}", algorithm=MD5, op="auth", stale=false
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: application/json
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=300
Date: {dateInUnixFormat}
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: {requestLengthInBytes}
X-MongoDB-Service-Version: gitHash={gitHash}; versionString={ApplicationVersion}

Response Body

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{
  "emailAddress" : "jane@qa.example.com",
  "firstName" : "Jane",
  "id" : "533dc19ce4b00835ff81e2eb",
  "lastName" : "D'oh",
  "roles" : [ {
    "groupId" : "{PROJECT-ID}",
    "roleName" : "GROUP_USER_ADMIN"
  },{
    "orgId" : "55555bbe3bd5253aea2d9b16",
    "roleName" : "ORG_MEMBER"
  } ],
  "links" : [],
  "username": "jane"
}

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