Viewing User Information

Problem

You want to view information about a user.

Solution

Python
R

Use the users.get method to retrieve a user by their unique identifier (guid).

from posit import connect

GUID = "f155520a-ca2e-4084-b0a0-12120b7d1add"

client = connect.Client()
user = client.users.get(GUID)

>>> import json
>>> print(json.dumps(user, indent=4))
{
    "email": "hadley@posit.co",
    "username": "hadley",
    "first_name": "Hadley",
    "last_name": "Wickham",
    "user_role": "publisher",
    "created_time": "2017-03-08T04:52:04Z",
    "updated_time": "2023-02-17 16:23:09",
    "active_time": "2023-02-17 16:23:09",
    "confirmed": true,
    "locked": false,
    "guid": "f155520a-ca2e-4084-b0a0-12120b7d1add"
}

Use the get_users function to return a data frame of all users accounts on the Connect server, which you can filter to find the specific user whose information you need.

library(connectapi)

GUID <- "f155520a-ca2e-4084-b0a0-12120b7d1add"

client <- connect()
users <- get_users(client)

The users variable is a dataframe of users.

> users[users$guid == GUID, ]
# A tibble: 1 × 11
  email           username first_name last_name user_role created_time        updated_time        active_time         confirmed locked guid
  <chr>           <chr>    <chr>      <chr>     <chr>     <dttm>              <dttm>              <dttm>              <lgl>     <lgl>  <chr>
1 hadley@posit.co hadley   Hadley     Wickham   publisher 2015-05-20 19:44:37 2023-02-17 16:23:09 2023-02-17 16:23:09 TRUE      FALSE  f155520a-ca2e-4084-b0a0-12120b7d1add