Find user by user key (cookie)

Long awaited feature to search users (including visitors without email!) by their user key, which is also their cookie value of __ca__chat.

GET

/users/search/?key=:key

Attributes

Type

Description

key

string

User key value, second value of user model, right after ID. Example key: g3FaYocCy0U6

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

Example 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
}

var settings = {
  "async": true,
  "crossDomain": true,
  "url": "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users/search/?key=:key",
  "method": "GET",
  "headers": {
    "authorization": "Token <your_64_char_api_key>"
  }
}

$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});

var data = null;

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.withCredentials = true;

xhr.addEventListener("readystatechange", function () {
  if (this.readyState === 4) {
    console.log(this.responseText);
  }
});

xhr.open("GET", "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users/search/?key=:key");
xhr.setRequestHeader("authorization", "Token <your_64_char_api_key>");

xhr.send(data);

var request = require("request");

var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users/search/',
  qs: { key: ':key' },
  headers: { authorization: 'Token <your_64_char_api_key>' } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  console.log(body);
});

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users/search/?key=:key",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "authorization: Token <your_64_char_api_key>"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

import requests

url = "https://<your_app_subdomain>.user.com/api/public/users/search/"

querystring = {"key":":key"}

headers = {'authorization': 'Token <your_64_char_api_key>'}

response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.text)

import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("<your_app_subdomain>.user.com")

headers = { 'authorization': "Token <your_64_char_api_key>" }

conn.request("GET", "/api/public/users/search/?key=:key", headers=headers)

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))