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michaelholtz

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Registered: 2022-10-24

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API - search userid by username

Hello !

I need to find the user id via API by username.
I already got it by email.

Thanks in advance!

cconard96

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Registered: 2018-07-31

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Re: API - search userid by username

It will be easier with the new API that is coming:
https://github.com/glpi-project/glpi/pull/12221

Until then, a tip with using the search in the current API, you can make the search you want in the web interface and then copy the "?" and everything after it and use that in your API request.

For example, if I search "Login contains 'test'" in my users I get:
?is_deleted=0&as_map=0&browse=0&criteria%5B0%5D%5Blink%5D=AND&criteria%5B0%5D%5Bfield%5D=1&criteria%5B0%5D%5Bsearchtype%5D=contains&criteria%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D=test&itemtype=User&start=0&_glpi_csrf_token=3a42e026c0f81301da8df439bea3f9f7d5bea5d5a48b1973ad26fb5b0afcfc1a&sort%5B%5D=1&order%5B%5D=ASC

You can remove the "_glpi_csrf_token" parameter since it isn't needed in the API call.

Then, the API search call would be:
/apirest.php/search/User?is_deleted=0&as_map=0&browse=0&criteria%5B0%5D%5Blink%5D=AND&criteria%5B0%5D%5Bfield%5D=1&criteria%5B0%5D%5Bsearchtype%5D=contains&criteria%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D=test&itemtype=User&start=0&&sort%5B%5D=1&order%5B%5D=ASC

You can replace the "test" text in the search parameters to whichever username you are searching for, but at least this way you don't need to try and find the internal search ID for the login field or need to manually build the search criteria parameters.

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