Retrieve a user's profile information, including their custom status.
GEThttps://slack-gov.com/api/users.profile.get
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
token
Authentication token bearing required scopes. Tokens should be passed as an HTTP Authorization header or alternatively, as a POST parameter.
xxxx-xxxxxxxxx-xxxx
Use this method to retrieve a user's profile information.
If you're frequently calling users.profile.get
on behalf of a team or user, we recommend caching labels retrieved from team.profile.get
. Using the include_labels
parameter will severely rate-limit requests to this method.
The following fields are the default fields of a user's workspace profile. A user may have additional custom fields, though! Use team.profile.get
to view all the workspace's custom profile fields.
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
avatar_hash |
String | |
display_name |
String | The display name the user has chosen to identify themselves by in their workspace profile. Do not use this field as a unique identifier for a user, as it may change at any time. Instead, use id and team_id in concert. |
display_name_normalized |
String | The display_name field, but with any non-Latin characters filtered out. |
email |
String | A valid email address. It cannot have spaces, and it must have an @ and a domain. It cannot be in use by another member of the same team. Changing a user's email address will send an email to both the old and new addresses, and also post a slackbot message to the user informing them of the change. This field can only be changed by admins for users on paid teams. When using an OAuth Access Token (that starts with xoxp- ) to retrieve one's own profile details, the email field will not be returned in the response if the token does not have the users:read.email scope. |
fields |
Object | All the custom profile fields for the user. |
first_name |
String | The user's first name. The name slackbot cannot be used. Updating first_name will update the first name within real_name . |
image_* |
String | These various fields will contain https URLs that point to square ratio, web-viewable images (GIFs, JPEGs, or PNGs) that represent different sizes of a user's profile picture. |
last_name |
String | The user's last name. The name slackbot cannot be used. Updating last_name will update the second name within real_name . |
phone |
String | The user's phone number, in any format. |
pronouns |
String | The pronouns the user prefers to be addressed by. |
real_name |
String | The user's first and last name. Updating this field will update first_name and last_name . If only one name is provided, the value of last_name will be cleared. |
real_name_normalized |
String | The real_name field, but with any non-Latin characters filtered out. |
skype |
String | A shadow from a bygone era. It will always be an empty string and cannot be set otherwise. |
start_date |
String | The date the person joined the organization. Only available if Slack Atlas is enabled. |
status_emoji |
String | The displayed emoji that is enabled for the Slack team, such as :train: . |
status_expiration |
Integer | the Unix timestamp of when the status will expire. Providing 0 or omitting this field results in a custom status that will not expire. |
status_text |
String | The displayed text of up to 100 characters. We strongly encourage brevity. See custom status for more info. |
team |
String | The ID of the workspace the user is in. |
title |
String | The user's title. |
Bot users may contain an always_active
profile field, indicating whether the bot user is active in a way that overrides traditional presence rules.
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.
If the Email Display setting is unchecked in your Slack Admin settings, users.profile.get
does not return an email
value.
Typical success response
{
"ok": true,
"profile": {
"title": "Head of Coffee Production",
"phone": "",
"skype": "",
"real_name": "John Smith",
"real_name_normalized": "John Smith",
"display_name": "john",
"display_name_normalized": "john",
"fields": {
"Xf0111111": {
"value": "Barista",
"alt": ""
},
"Xf0222222": {
"value": "2022-04-11",
"alt": ""
},
"Xf0333333": {
"value": "https://example.com",
"alt": ""
}
},
"status_text": "Watching cold brew steep",
"status_emoji": ":coffee:",
"status_emoji_display_info": [],
"status_expiration": 0,
"avatar_hash": "123xyz",
"start_date": "2022-03-21",
"email": "johnsmith@example.com",
"pronouns": "they/them/theirs",
"huddle_state": "default_unset",
"huddle_state_expiration_ts": 0,
"first_name": "john",
"last_name": "smith",
"image_24": "https://.../...-24.png",
"image_32": "https://.../...-32.png",
"image_48": "https://.../...-48.png",
"image_72": "https://.../...-72.png",
"image_192": "https://.../....-192png",
"image_512": "https://.../...-512.png"
}
}
Typical error response
{
"ok": false,
"error": "user_not_found"
}
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 |
---|---|
user_not_found | Value passed for |
token_revoked | Authentication token is for a deleted user or workspace or the app has been removed when using a |
ratelimited | The request has been ratelimited. Refer to the |
access_denied | Access to a resource specified in the request is denied. |
account_inactive | Authentication token is for a deleted user or workspace when using a |
deprecated_endpoint | The endpoint has been deprecated. |
ekm_access_denied | Administrators have suspended the ability to post a message. |
enterprise_is_restricted | The method cannot be called from an Enterprise. |
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. |
is_bot | This method cannot be called by a legacy bot. |
method_deprecated | The method has been deprecated. |
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. |
not_authed | No authentication token provided. |
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. |
token_expired | Authentication token has expired |
two_factor_setup_required | Two factor setup is required. |
accesslimited | Access to this method is limited on the current network |
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. |
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_arguments | The method was either called with invalid arguments or some detail about the arguments passed is invalid, which is more likely when using complex arguments like blocks or attachments. |
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 |
request_timeout | The method was called via a |
service_unavailable | The service is temporarily unavailable |
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. |
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 |
---|---|
missing_charset | The method was called via a |
superfluous_charset | The method was called via a |