Get Users by usernames

Retrieves details of multiple Users by their usernames.

GET /2/users/by

Get Users by usernames

cURL

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

import requests

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

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

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

fetch('https://api.x.com/2/users/by', 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/by",
  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/by"

	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))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.x.com/2/users/by")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

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

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

200

{
  "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"
      }
    ],
    "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

BearerTokenOAuth2UserTokenUserToken

Authorization · string · header · required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Query Parameters

usernames · string[] · required

A list of usernames, comma-separated.

Required array length: 1 - 100 elements

The X handle (screen name) of this User.

Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9_]{1,15}$

Example:

"TwitterDev,TwitterAPI"

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, media_metadata, non_public_metrics, note_tweet, organic_metrics, 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",
  "media_metadata",
  "non_public_metrics",
  "note_tweet",
  "organic_metrics",
  "possibly_sensitive",
  "promoted_metrics",
  "public_metrics",
  "referenced_tweets",
  "reply_settings",
  "scopes",
  "source",
  "suggested_source_links",
  "suggested_source_links_with_counts",
  "text",
  "withheld"
]

Response

200

application/json

The request has succeeded.

data · object[]

Minimum array length: 1

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errors · object[]

Minimum array length: 1

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

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includes · object

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