Get my User

GET

users

Get my User

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.x.com/2/users/me \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://api.x.com/2/users/me', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.x.com/2/users/me",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
  ],
]);

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

curl_close($curl);

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

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.x.com/2/users/me"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.x.com/2/users/me")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "created_at": "2013-12-14T04:35:55Z",
    "id": "2244994945",
    "name": "X Dev",
    "protected": false,
    "username": "TwitterDev"
  },
  "errors": [
    {
      "title": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>",
      "detail": "<string>",
      "status": 123
    }
  ],
  "includes": {
    "media": [
      {
        "type": "<string>",
        "preview_image_url": "<string>",
        "variants": [
          {
            "bit_rate": 123,
            "content_type": "<string>",
            "url": "<string>"
          }
        ],
        "height": 1,
        "media_key": "<string>",
        "width": 1
      }
    ],
    "places": [
      {
        "full_name": "Lakewood, CO",
        "id": "f7eb2fa2fea288b1",
        "contained_within": [
          "f7eb2fa2fea288b1"
        ],
        "country": "United States",
        "country_code": "US",
        "geo": {
          "bbox": [
            -105.193475,
            39.60973,
            -105.053164,
            39.761974
          ],
          "properties": {},
          "type": "Feature",
          "geometry": {
            "coordinates": [
              -105.18816086351444,
              40.247749999999996
            ],
            "type": "Point"
          }
        },
        "name": "Lakewood",
        "place_type": "city"
      }
    ],
    "polls": [
      {
        "id": "1365059861688410112",
        "options": [
          {
            "label": "<string>",
            "position": 123,
            "votes": 123
          }
        ],
        "duration_minutes": 5042,
        "end_datetime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
        "voting_status": "open"
      }
    ],
    "topics": [
      {
        "id": "<string>",
        "name": "Technology",
        "description": "All about technology"
      }
    ],
    "tweets": [
      {
        "author_id": "2244994945",
        "created_at": "Wed Jan 06 18:40:40 +0000 2021",
        "id": "1346889436626259968",
        "text": "Learn how to use the user Tweet timeline and user mention timeline endpoints in the X API v2 to explore Tweet\\u2026 https:\\/\\/t.co\\/56a0vZUx7i",
        "username": "XDevelopers"
      }
    ],
    "users": [
      {
        "created_at": "2013-12-14T04:35:55Z",
        "id": "2244994945",
        "name": "X Dev",
        "protected": false,
        "username": "TwitterDev"
      }
    ]
  }
}

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>"
}

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

The access token received from the authorization server in the OAuth 2.0 flow.

FlowAuthorization Code

Authorization URL: https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/authorize
Token URL: https://api.x.com/2/oauth2/token

Scopes2

tweet.read

View all Posts you can see, including those from protected accounts.

users.read

View any account you can see, including protected accounts.

Query Parameters

user.fields

enum<string>[]

A comma separated list of User fields to display. The fields available for a User object.

Minimum array length: 1

Available options:

affiliation,

confirmed_email,

connection_status,

created_at,

description,

entities,

id,

is_identity_verified,

location,

most_recent_tweet_id,

name,

parody,

pinned_tweet_id,

profile_banner_url,

profile_image_url,

protected,

public_metrics,

receives_your_dm,

subscription,

subscription_type,

url,

username,

verified,

verified_followers_count,

verified_type,

withheld

Example:

[
  "affiliation",
  "confirmed_email",
  "connection_status",
  "created_at",
  "description",
  "entities",
  "id",
  "is_identity_verified",
  "location",
  "most_recent_tweet_id",
  "name",
  "parody",
  "pinned_tweet_id",
  "profile_banner_url",
  "profile_image_url",
  "protected",
  "public_metrics",
  "receives_your_dm",
  "subscription",
  "subscription_type",
  "url",
  "username",
  "verified",
  "verified_followers_count",
  "verified_type",
  "withheld"
]

expansions

enum<string>[]

A comma separated list of fields to expand. The list of fields you can expand for a User object. If the field has an ID, it can be expanded into a full object.

Minimum array length: 1

Available options:

affiliation.user_id,

most_recent_tweet_id,

pinned_tweet_id

Example:

[
  "affiliation.user_id",
  "most_recent_tweet_id",
  "pinned_tweet_id"
]

tweet.fields

enum<string>[]

A comma separated list of Tweet fields to display. The fields available for a Tweet object.

Minimum array length: 1

Available options:

article,

attachments,

author_id,

card_uri,

community_id,

context_annotations,

conversation_id,

created_at,

display_text_range,

edit_controls,

edit_history_tweet_ids,

entities,

geo,

id,

in_reply_to_user_id,

lang,

matched_media_notes,

media_metadata,

non_public_metrics,

note_request_suggestions,

note_tweet,

organic_metrics,

paid_partnership,

possibly_sensitive,

promoted_metrics,

public_metrics,

referenced_tweets,

reply_settings,

scopes,

source,

suggested_source_links,

suggested_source_links_with_counts,

text,

withheld

Example:

[
  "article",
  "attachments",
  "author_id",
  "card_uri",
  "community_id",
  "context_annotations",
  "conversation_id",
  "created_at",
  "display_text_range",
  "edit_controls",
  "edit_history_tweet_ids",
  "entities",
  "geo",
  "id",
  "in_reply_to_user_id",
  "lang",
  "matched_media_notes",
  "media_metadata",
  "non_public_metrics",
  "note_request_suggestions",
  "note_tweet",
  "organic_metrics",
  "paid_partnership",
  "possibly_sensitive",
  "promoted_metrics",
  "public_metrics",
  "referenced_tweets",
  "reply_settings",
  "scopes",
  "source",
  "suggested_source_links",
  "suggested_source_links_with_counts",
  "text",
  "withheld"
]

Response

The request has succeeded.

data

object

The X User object.

Show child attributes

Example:

{
  "created_at": "2013-12-14T04:35:55Z",
  "id": "2244994945",
  "name": "X Dev",
  "protected": false,
  "username": "TwitterDev"
}

errors

object[]

Minimum array length: 1

An HTTP Problem Details object, as defined in IETF RFC 7807 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7807).

Show child attributes

includes

object

Show child attributes

Get my User

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.x.com/2/users/me \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'

const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://api.x.com/2/users/me', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.x.com/2/users/me",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>"
  ],
]);

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

curl_close($curl);

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

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.x.com/2/users/me"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.x.com/2/users/me")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "data": {
    "created_at": "2013-12-14T04:35:55Z",
    "id": "2244994945",
    "name": "X Dev",
    "protected": false,
    "username": "TwitterDev"
  },
  "errors": [
    {
      "title": "<string>",
      "type": "<string>",
      "detail": "<string>",
      "status": 123
    }
  ],
  "includes": {
    "media": [
      {
        "type": "<string>",
        "preview_image_url": "<string>",
        "variants": [
          {
            "bit_rate": 123,
            "content_type": "<string>",
            "url": "<string>"
          }
        ],
        "height": 1,
        "media_key": "<string>",
        "width": 1
      }
    ],
    "places": [
      {
        "full_name": "Lakewood, CO",
        "id": "f7eb2fa2fea288b1",
        "contained_within": [
          "f7eb2fa2fea288b1"
        ],
        "country": "United States",
        "country_code": "US",
        "geo": {
          "bbox": [
            -105.193475,
            39.60973,
            -105.053164,
            39.761974
          ],
          "properties": {},
          "type": "Feature",
          "geometry": {
            "coordinates": [
              -105.18816086351444,
              40.247749999999996
            ],
            "type": "Point"
          }
        },
        "name": "Lakewood",
        "place_type": "city"
      }
    ],
    "polls": [
      {
        "id": "1365059861688410112",
        "options": [
          {
            "label": "<string>",
            "position": 123,
            "votes": 123
          }
        ],
        "duration_minutes": 5042,
        "end_datetime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
        "voting_status": "open"
      }
    ],
    "topics": [
      {
        "id": "<string>",
        "name": "Technology",
        "description": "All about technology"
      }
    ],
    "tweets": [
      {
        "author_id": "2244994945",
        "created_at": "Wed Jan 06 18:40:40 +0000 2021",
        "id": "1346889436626259968",
        "text": "Learn how to use the user Tweet timeline and user mention timeline endpoints in the X API v2 to explore Tweet\\u2026 https:\\/\\/t.co\\/56a0vZUx7i",
        "username": "XDevelopers"
      }
    ],
    "users": [
      {
        "created_at": "2013-12-14T04:35:55Z",
        "id": "2244994945",
        "name": "X Dev",
        "protected": false,
        "username": "TwitterDev"
      }
    ]
  }
}

{
  "code": 123,
  "message": "<string>"
}

Overview

Posts

Articles

Users

Direct Messages

Likes

Lists

Spaces

Communities

Community Notes

Trends

News

Media

X Activity

Usage

Stream Connections

Compliance

Webhooks

Get my User

Authorizations

Query Parameters

Response