cURL
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.onesignal.com/apps/{app_id}/users/by/{alias_label}/{alias_id} \
--header 'Authorization: <authorization>'import Onesignal from '@onesignal/node-onesignal';
const configuration = Onesignal.createConfiguration({
restApiKey: 'YOUR_REST_API_KEY',
});
const apiInstance = new Onesignal.DefaultApi(configuration);
// string
const appId: string = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
// string
const aliasLabel: string = "external_id";
// string
const aliasId: string = "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID";
try {
const response = await apiInstance.getUser(appId, aliasLabel, aliasId);
console.log(response);
} catch (e) {
if (e instanceof Onesignal.ApiException) {
// `e.errorMessages` flattens any error-envelope shape to a `string[]`;
// the raw parsed body remains on `e.body`.
console.error("getUser failed: HTTP " + e.code, e.errorMessages);
} else {
throw e;
}
}import onesignal
from onesignal.api import default_api
from onesignal.models import *
from pprint import pprint
# See configuration.py for a list of all supported configuration parameters.
# Some of the OneSignal endpoints require ORGANIZATION_API_KEY token for authorization, while others require REST_API_KEY.
# We recommend adding both of them in the configuration page so that you will not need to figure it out yourself.
configuration = onesignal.Configuration(
rest_api_key = "YOUR_REST_API_KEY", # App REST API key required for most endpoints
organization_api_key = "YOUR_ORGANIZATION_API_KEY" # Organization key is only required for creating new apps and other top-level endpoints
)
# Enter a context with an instance of the API client
with onesignal.ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:
# Create an instance of the API class
api_instance = default_api.DefaultApi(api_client)
app_id = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
alias_label = "external_id"
alias_id = "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID"
try:
api_response = api_instance.get_user(app_id, alias_label, alias_id)
pprint(api_response)
except onesignal.ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling DefaultApi->get_user: %s\n" % e)
print("Status Code: %s" % e.status)
print("Response Body: %s" % e.body)<?php
require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');
// Configure Bearer authorization: rest_api_key
$config = onesignal\client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()
->setRestApiKeyToken('YOUR_REST_API_KEY')
->setOrganizationApiKeyToken('YOUR_ORGANIZATION_API_KEY');
$apiInstance = new onesignal\client\Api\DefaultApi(
// If you want use custom http client, pass your client which implements `GuzzleHttp\ClientInterface`.
// This is optional, `GuzzleHttp\Client` will be used as default.
new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
$config
);
$app_id = '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'; // string
$alias_label = 'external_id'; // string
$alias_id = 'YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID'; // string
try {
$result = $apiInstance->getUser($app_id, $alias_label, $alias_id);
print_r($result);
} catch (\onesignal\client\ApiException $e) {
echo 'Exception when calling DefaultApi->getUser: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
echo 'Status Code: ', $e->getCode(), PHP_EOL;
// getErrorMessages() flattens any error-envelope shape to a string[];
// the raw body remains on getResponseBody().
echo 'Error Messages: ', implode(', ', $e->getErrorMessages()), PHP_EOL;
echo 'Response Body: ', $e->getResponseBody(), PHP_EOL;
} catch (\Exception $e) {
echo 'Exception when calling DefaultApi->getUser: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"os"
"github.com/OneSignal/onesignal-go-api/v5"
)
func main() {
appId := "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" // string |
aliasLabel := "external_id" // string |
aliasId := "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID" // string |
configuration := onesignal.NewConfiguration()
apiClient := onesignal.NewAPIClient(configuration)
restAuth := context.WithValue(context.Background(), onesignal.RestApiKey, "YOUR_REST_API_KEY") // App REST API key required for most endpoints
resp, r, err := apiClient.DefaultApi.GetUser(restAuth, appId, aliasLabel, aliasId).Execute()
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error when calling `DefaultApi.GetUser``: %v\n", err)
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Full HTTP response: %v\n", r)
if apiErr, ok := err.(*onesignal.GenericOpenAPIError); ok {
// ErrorMessages() flattens any error-envelope shape to a []string;
// the raw body remains on Body().
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error Messages: %v\n", apiErr.ErrorMessages())
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Response Body: %s\n", apiErr.Body())
}
}
// response from `GetUser`: User
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "Response from `DefaultApi.GetUser`: %v\n", resp)
}require 'onesignal'
# setup authorization
OneSignal.configure do |config|
# Configure Bearer authorization: rest_api_key
config.rest_api_key = 'YOUR_REST_API_KEY'
end
api_instance = OneSignal::DefaultApi.new
app_id = '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' # String |
alias_label = 'external_id' # String |
alias_id = 'YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID' # String |
begin
result = api_instance.get_user(app_id, alias_label, alias_id)
p result
rescue OneSignal::ApiError => e
puts "Error when calling DefaultApi->get_user: #{e}"
puts "Status Code: #{e.code}"
# `e.error_messages` flattens any error-envelope shape to an Array<String>;
# the raw body remains on `e.response_body`.
puts "Error Messages: #{e.error_messages}"
puts "Response Body: #{e.response_body}"
end// Import classes:
import com.onesignal.client.ApiClient;
import com.onesignal.client.ApiException;
import com.onesignal.client.Configuration;
import com.onesignal.client.auth.*;
import com.onesignal.client.model.*;
import com.onesignal.client.api.DefaultApi;
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApiClient defaultClient = Configuration.getDefaultApiClient();
defaultClient.setBasePath("https://api.onesignal.com");
// Configure HTTP bearer authorization: rest_api_key
HttpBearerAuth rest_api_key = (HttpBearerAuth) defaultClient.getAuthentication("rest_api_key");
rest_api_key.setBearerToken("YOUR_REST_API_KEY");
DefaultApi apiInstance = new DefaultApi(defaultClient);
String appId = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"; // String |
String aliasLabel = "external_id"; // String |
String aliasId = "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID"; // String |
try {
User result = apiInstance.getUser(appId, aliasLabel, aliasId);
System.out.println(result);
} catch (ApiException e) {
System.err.println("Exception when calling DefaultApi#getUser");
System.err.println("Status code: " + e.getCode());
// getErrorMessages() flattens any error-envelope shape to a List<String>;
// the raw body remains on getResponseBody().
System.err.println("Error messages: " + e.getErrorMessages());
System.err.println("Reason: " + e.getResponseBody());
System.err.println("Response headers: " + e.getResponseHeaders());
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using OneSignalApi.Api;
using OneSignalApi.Client;
using OneSignalApi.Model;
namespace Example
{
public class GetUserExample
{
public static void Main()
{
Configuration config = new Configuration();
config.BasePath = "https://api.onesignal.com";
// Configure Bearer token for authorization: rest_api_key
config.AccessToken = "YOUR_REST_API_KEY";
var apiInstance = new DefaultApi(config);
var appId = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"; // string |
var aliasLabel = "external_id"; // string |
var aliasId = "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID"; // string |
try
{
User result = apiInstance.GetUser(appId, aliasLabel, aliasId);
Debug.WriteLine(result);
}
catch (ApiException e)
{
Debug.Print("Exception when calling DefaultApi.GetUser: " + e.Message );
Debug.Print("Status Code: "+ e.ErrorCode);
// e.ErrorMessages flattens any error-envelope shape to an IReadOnlyList<string>;
// the raw body remains on e.ErrorContent.
Debug.Print("Error Messages: " + string.Join(", ", e.ErrorMessages));
Debug.Print("Response Body: " + e.ErrorContent);
Debug.Print(e.StackTrace);
}
}
}
}use onesignal_rust_api::apis::configuration::Configuration;
use onesignal_rust_api::apis::default_api;
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
let mut configuration = Configuration::new();
configuration.rest_api_key_token = Some("YOUR_REST_API_KEY".to_string());
// Realistic values are pulled from the spec's `example:` fields where present.
let app_id: &str = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
let alias_label: &str = "external_id";
let alias_id: &str = "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID";
match default_api::get_user(&configuration, app_id, alias_label, alias_id).await {
Ok(resp) => println!("{:?}", resp),
Err(e @ onesignal_rust_api::apis::Error::ResponseError(_)) => {
// `e.error_messages()` flattens any error-envelope shape to a Vec<String>;
// the raw response remains on the ResponseError variant.
eprintln!("get_user failed: {:?}", e.error_messages());
}
Err(e) => eprintln!("get_user failed: {:?}", e),
}
}{
"properties": {
"tags": {
"KEY": "VALUE"
},
"country": "US",
"first_active": 1673449251,
"last_active": 1678126124,
"test_user_name": "QA Device - Jane"
},
"identity": {
"external_id": "example123",
"onesignal_id": "ONESIGNAL_ID"
},
"subscriptions": [
{
"id": "SUBSCRIPTION_ID",
"app_id": "APP_ID",
"type": "Email",
"token": "example@example.com",
"enabled": true,
"notification_types": -99,
"session_time": 3670,
"session_count": 129,
"sdk": "",
"device_model": "",
"device_os": "",
"rooted": false,
"test_type": 0,
"app_version": "",
"net_type": 0,
"carrier": "",
"web_auth": "",
"web_p256": ""
}
]
}{
"errors": [
{
"code": "internal error code",
"title": "example error title",
"meta": {}
}
]
}{
"errors": [
{
"code": "auth-1",
"title": "This operation requires 'Authorization' in the HTTP header"
}
]
}{
"errors": [
{
"code": "internal error code",
"title": "example error title",
"meta": {}
}
]
}{
"errors": [
{
"code": "Rate Limit Exceeded",
"title": "API rate limit exceeded"
}
]
}{
"errors": [
"Service temporarily unavailable"
]
}View user
Retrieve a user including aliases, properties, and subscriptions.
GET
/
apps
/
{app_id}
/
users
/
by
/
{alias_label}
/
{alias_id}
cURL
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.onesignal.com/apps/{app_id}/users/by/{alias_label}/{alias_id} \
--header 'Authorization: <authorization>'import Onesignal from '@onesignal/node-onesignal';
const configuration = Onesignal.createConfiguration({
restApiKey: 'YOUR_REST_API_KEY',
});
const apiInstance = new Onesignal.DefaultApi(configuration);
// string
const appId: string = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
// string
const aliasLabel: string = "external_id";
// string
const aliasId: string = "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID";
try {
const response = await apiInstance.getUser(appId, aliasLabel, aliasId);
console.log(response);
} catch (e) {
if (e instanceof Onesignal.ApiException) {
// `e.errorMessages` flattens any error-envelope shape to a `string[]`;
// the raw parsed body remains on `e.body`.
console.error("getUser failed: HTTP " + e.code, e.errorMessages);
} else {
throw e;
}
}import onesignal
from onesignal.api import default_api
from onesignal.models import *
from pprint import pprint
# See configuration.py for a list of all supported configuration parameters.
# Some of the OneSignal endpoints require ORGANIZATION_API_KEY token for authorization, while others require REST_API_KEY.
# We recommend adding both of them in the configuration page so that you will not need to figure it out yourself.
configuration = onesignal.Configuration(
rest_api_key = "YOUR_REST_API_KEY", # App REST API key required for most endpoints
organization_api_key = "YOUR_ORGANIZATION_API_KEY" # Organization key is only required for creating new apps and other top-level endpoints
)
# Enter a context with an instance of the API client
with onesignal.ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:
# Create an instance of the API class
api_instance = default_api.DefaultApi(api_client)
app_id = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
alias_label = "external_id"
alias_id = "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID"
try:
api_response = api_instance.get_user(app_id, alias_label, alias_id)
pprint(api_response)
except onesignal.ApiException as e:
print("Exception when calling DefaultApi->get_user: %s\n" % e)
print("Status Code: %s" % e.status)
print("Response Body: %s" % e.body)<?php
require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');
// Configure Bearer authorization: rest_api_key
$config = onesignal\client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()
->setRestApiKeyToken('YOUR_REST_API_KEY')
->setOrganizationApiKeyToken('YOUR_ORGANIZATION_API_KEY');
$apiInstance = new onesignal\client\Api\DefaultApi(
// If you want use custom http client, pass your client which implements `GuzzleHttp\ClientInterface`.
// This is optional, `GuzzleHttp\Client` will be used as default.
new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
$config
);
$app_id = '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'; // string
$alias_label = 'external_id'; // string
$alias_id = 'YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID'; // string
try {
$result = $apiInstance->getUser($app_id, $alias_label, $alias_id);
print_r($result);
} catch (\onesignal\client\ApiException $e) {
echo 'Exception when calling DefaultApi->getUser: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
echo 'Status Code: ', $e->getCode(), PHP_EOL;
// getErrorMessages() flattens any error-envelope shape to a string[];
// the raw body remains on getResponseBody().
echo 'Error Messages: ', implode(', ', $e->getErrorMessages()), PHP_EOL;
echo 'Response Body: ', $e->getResponseBody(), PHP_EOL;
} catch (\Exception $e) {
echo 'Exception when calling DefaultApi->getUser: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}package main
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"os"
"github.com/OneSignal/onesignal-go-api/v5"
)
func main() {
appId := "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000" // string |
aliasLabel := "external_id" // string |
aliasId := "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID" // string |
configuration := onesignal.NewConfiguration()
apiClient := onesignal.NewAPIClient(configuration)
restAuth := context.WithValue(context.Background(), onesignal.RestApiKey, "YOUR_REST_API_KEY") // App REST API key required for most endpoints
resp, r, err := apiClient.DefaultApi.GetUser(restAuth, appId, aliasLabel, aliasId).Execute()
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error when calling `DefaultApi.GetUser``: %v\n", err)
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Full HTTP response: %v\n", r)
if apiErr, ok := err.(*onesignal.GenericOpenAPIError); ok {
// ErrorMessages() flattens any error-envelope shape to a []string;
// the raw body remains on Body().
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Error Messages: %v\n", apiErr.ErrorMessages())
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Response Body: %s\n", apiErr.Body())
}
}
// response from `GetUser`: User
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stdout, "Response from `DefaultApi.GetUser`: %v\n", resp)
}require 'onesignal'
# setup authorization
OneSignal.configure do |config|
# Configure Bearer authorization: rest_api_key
config.rest_api_key = 'YOUR_REST_API_KEY'
end
api_instance = OneSignal::DefaultApi.new
app_id = '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000' # String |
alias_label = 'external_id' # String |
alias_id = 'YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID' # String |
begin
result = api_instance.get_user(app_id, alias_label, alias_id)
p result
rescue OneSignal::ApiError => e
puts "Error when calling DefaultApi->get_user: #{e}"
puts "Status Code: #{e.code}"
# `e.error_messages` flattens any error-envelope shape to an Array<String>;
# the raw body remains on `e.response_body`.
puts "Error Messages: #{e.error_messages}"
puts "Response Body: #{e.response_body}"
end// Import classes:
import com.onesignal.client.ApiClient;
import com.onesignal.client.ApiException;
import com.onesignal.client.Configuration;
import com.onesignal.client.auth.*;
import com.onesignal.client.model.*;
import com.onesignal.client.api.DefaultApi;
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) {
ApiClient defaultClient = Configuration.getDefaultApiClient();
defaultClient.setBasePath("https://api.onesignal.com");
// Configure HTTP bearer authorization: rest_api_key
HttpBearerAuth rest_api_key = (HttpBearerAuth) defaultClient.getAuthentication("rest_api_key");
rest_api_key.setBearerToken("YOUR_REST_API_KEY");
DefaultApi apiInstance = new DefaultApi(defaultClient);
String appId = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"; // String |
String aliasLabel = "external_id"; // String |
String aliasId = "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID"; // String |
try {
User result = apiInstance.getUser(appId, aliasLabel, aliasId);
System.out.println(result);
} catch (ApiException e) {
System.err.println("Exception when calling DefaultApi#getUser");
System.err.println("Status code: " + e.getCode());
// getErrorMessages() flattens any error-envelope shape to a List<String>;
// the raw body remains on getResponseBody().
System.err.println("Error messages: " + e.getErrorMessages());
System.err.println("Reason: " + e.getResponseBody());
System.err.println("Response headers: " + e.getResponseHeaders());
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using OneSignalApi.Api;
using OneSignalApi.Client;
using OneSignalApi.Model;
namespace Example
{
public class GetUserExample
{
public static void Main()
{
Configuration config = new Configuration();
config.BasePath = "https://api.onesignal.com";
// Configure Bearer token for authorization: rest_api_key
config.AccessToken = "YOUR_REST_API_KEY";
var apiInstance = new DefaultApi(config);
var appId = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"; // string |
var aliasLabel = "external_id"; // string |
var aliasId = "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID"; // string |
try
{
User result = apiInstance.GetUser(appId, aliasLabel, aliasId);
Debug.WriteLine(result);
}
catch (ApiException e)
{
Debug.Print("Exception when calling DefaultApi.GetUser: " + e.Message );
Debug.Print("Status Code: "+ e.ErrorCode);
// e.ErrorMessages flattens any error-envelope shape to an IReadOnlyList<string>;
// the raw body remains on e.ErrorContent.
Debug.Print("Error Messages: " + string.Join(", ", e.ErrorMessages));
Debug.Print("Response Body: " + e.ErrorContent);
Debug.Print(e.StackTrace);
}
}
}
}use onesignal_rust_api::apis::configuration::Configuration;
use onesignal_rust_api::apis::default_api;
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
let mut configuration = Configuration::new();
configuration.rest_api_key_token = Some("YOUR_REST_API_KEY".to_string());
// Realistic values are pulled from the spec's `example:` fields where present.
let app_id: &str = "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000";
let alias_label: &str = "external_id";
let alias_id: &str = "YOUR_USER_EXTERNAL_ID";
match default_api::get_user(&configuration, app_id, alias_label, alias_id).await {
Ok(resp) => println!("{:?}", resp),
Err(e @ onesignal_rust_api::apis::Error::ResponseError(_)) => {
// `e.error_messages()` flattens any error-envelope shape to a Vec<String>;
// the raw response remains on the ResponseError variant.
eprintln!("get_user failed: {:?}", e.error_messages());
}
Err(e) => eprintln!("get_user failed: {:?}", e),
}
}{
"properties": {
"tags": {
"KEY": "VALUE"
},
"country": "US",
"first_active": 1673449251,
"last_active": 1678126124,
"test_user_name": "QA Device - Jane"
},
"identity": {
"external_id": "example123",
"onesignal_id": "ONESIGNAL_ID"
},
"subscriptions": [
{
"id": "SUBSCRIPTION_ID",
"app_id": "APP_ID",
"type": "Email",
"token": "example@example.com",
"enabled": true,
"notification_types": -99,
"session_time": 3670,
"session_count": 129,
"sdk": "",
"device_model": "",
"device_os": "",
"rooted": false,
"test_type": 0,
"app_version": "",
"net_type": 0,
"carrier": "",
"web_auth": "",
"web_p256": ""
}
]
}{
"errors": [
{
"code": "internal error code",
"title": "example error title",
"meta": {}
}
]
}{
"errors": [
{
"code": "auth-1",
"title": "This operation requires 'Authorization' in the HTTP header"
}
]
}{
"errors": [
{
"code": "internal error code",
"title": "example error title",
"meta": {}
}
]
}{
"errors": [
{
"code": "Rate Limit Exceeded",
"title": "API rate limit exceeded"
}
]
}{
"errors": [
"Service temporarily unavailable"
]
}Overview
- Use this API to retrieve a user’s full profile, including identity aliases, user properties, and messaging subscription details across channels.
- This is helpful for verifying user data, debugging subscription issues, or syncing OneSignal user data with your internal systems.
How to use this API
To look up a user, you must provide both analias_label and an alias_id. In most cases, your external_id will serve as the alias_label, and its value will be passed as the alias_id. While you may use a custom alias, we strongly recommend setting and using the external_id as your primary user identifier for consistency across platforms.
To retrieve a user using their OneSignal ID, set the alias_label to onesignal_id. Note: When querying with any alias other than onesignal_id, authentication is required.
Headers
Your App API key with prefix Key. See Keys & IDs.
Path Parameters
Your OneSignal App ID in UUID v4 format. See Keys & IDs.
The alias name or key to locate the user. Most commonly set as external_id but can be the onesignal_id or a custom alias.
The specific identifier for the given alias to identify the user.
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