users.lookupByEmail
Find a user with an email address.
Facts
Method URL: | https://slack.com/api/users.lookupByEmail | ||||||||
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Preferred HTTP method: | GET | ||||||||
Accepted content types: | application/x-www-form-urlencoded | ||||||||
Rate limiting: | Tier 3 | ||||||||
Works with: |
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Retrieve a single user by looking them up by their registered email address. Requires users:read.email
.
Custom bot users cannot use this method.
Arguments
token
Authentication token bearing required scopes. Tokens should be passed as an HTTP Authorization header or alternatively, as a POST parameter.
Examplexxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxx
email
An email address belonging to a user in the workspace
Examplespengler@ghostbusters.example.com
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
querystring or POST body. This method does not currently accept application/json
.
Response
Returns a user object.
Common successful response
Typical success response
{
"ok": true,
"user": {
"id": "W012A3CDE",
"team_id": "T012AB3C4",
"name": "spengler",
"deleted": false,
"color": "9f69e7",
"real_name": "Egon Spengler",
"tz": "America/Los_Angeles",
"tz_label": "Pacific Daylight Time",
"tz_offset": -25200,
"profile": {
"avatar_hash": "ge3b51ca72de",
"status_text": "Print is dead",
"status_emoji": ":books:",
"real_name": "Egon Spengler",
"display_name": "spengler",
"real_name_normalized": "Egon Spengler",
"display_name_normalized": "spengler",
"email": "spengler@ghostbusters.example.com",
"image_24": "https://.../avatar/e3b51ca72dee4ef87916ae2b9240df50.jpg",
"image_32": "https://.../avatar/e3b51ca72dee4ef87916ae2b9240df50.jpg",
"image_48": "https://.../avatar/e3b51ca72dee4ef87916ae2b9240df50.jpg",
"image_72": "https://.../avatar/e3b51ca72dee4ef87916ae2b9240df50.jpg",
"image_192": "https://.../avatar/e3b51ca72dee4ef87916ae2b9240df50.jpg",
"image_512": "https://.../avatar/e3b51ca72dee4ef87916ae2b9240df50.jpg",
"team": "T012AB3C4"
},
"is_admin": true,
"is_owner": false,
"is_primary_owner": false,
"is_restricted": false,
"is_ultra_restricted": false,
"is_bot": false,
"updated": 1502138686,
"is_app_user": false,
"has_2fa": false
}
}
Common error response
Typical error response
{
"ok": false,
"error": "users_not_found"
}
Profile
The profile hash contains as much information as the user has supplied in the default profile fields: first_name
, last_name
, real_name
, display_name
, skype
, and the image_*
fields. Only the image_*
fields are guaranteed to be included. Data that has not been supplied may not be present at all, may be null or may contain the empty string ("").
A user's custom profile fields may be discovered using users.profile.get
.
Email addresses
The users:read.email
OAuth scope is now required to access the email
field in user objects returned by the users.list
and users.info
web API methods. users:read
is no longer a sufficient scope for this data field. Learn more.
Apps created after January 4th, 2017 must explicitly request the users:read.email
OAuth permission scope when using the OAuth app installation flow to enable access to this method.
Errors
This table lists the expected errors that this method could return. However, other errors can be returned in the case where the service is down or other unexpected factors affect processing. Callers should always check the value of the ok
params in the response.
Error | Description |
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users_not_found | Value passed for |
enterprise_is_restricted | The method cannot be called from an Enterprise. |
not_authed | No authentication token provided. |
invalid_auth | Some aspect of authentication cannot be validated. Either the provided token is invalid or the request originates from an IP address disallowed from making the request. |
account_inactive | Authentication token is for a deleted user or workspace when using a |
token_revoked | Authentication token is for a deleted user or workspace or the app has been removed when using a |
no_permission | The workspace token used in this request does not have the permissions necessary to complete the request. Make sure your app is a member of the conversation it's attempting to post a message to. |
org_login_required | The workspace is undergoing an enterprise migration and will not be available until migration is complete. |
ekm_access_denied | Administrators have suspended the ability to post a message. |
missing_scope | The token used is not granted the specific scope permissions required to complete this request. |
not_allowed_token_type | The token type used in this request is not allowed. |
method_deprecated | The method has been deprecated. |
deprecated_endpoint | The endpoint has been deprecated. |
two_factor_setup_required | Two factor setup is required. |
invalid_arguments | The method was either called with invalid arguments or some detail about the arguments passed are invalid, which is more likely when using complex arguments like blocks or attachments. |
invalid_arg_name | The method was passed an argument whose name falls outside the bounds of accepted or expected values. This includes very long names and names with non-alphanumeric characters other than |
invalid_array_arg | The method was passed an array as an argument. Please only input valid strings. |
invalid_charset | The method was called via a |
invalid_form_data | The method was called via a |
invalid_post_type | The method was called via a |
missing_post_type | The method was called via a |
team_added_to_org | The workspace associated with your request is currently undergoing migration to an Enterprise Organization. Web API and other platform operations will be intermittently unavailable until the transition is complete. |
ratelimited | The request has been ratelimited. Refer to the |
accesslimited | Access to this method is limited on the current network |
request_timeout | The method was called via a |
service_unavailable | The service is temporarily unavailable |
fatal_error | The server could not complete your operation(s) without encountering a catastrophic error. It's possible some aspect of the operation succeeded before the error was raised. |
internal_error | The server could not complete your operation(s) without encountering an error, likely due to a transient issue on our end. It's possible some aspect of the operation succeeded before the error was raised. |
Warnings
This table lists the expected warnings that this method will return. However, other warnings can be returned in the case where the service is experiencing unexpected trouble.
Warning | Description |
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missing_charset | The method was called via a |
superfluous_charset | The method was called via a |