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Retrieves information about a user in the enterprise. The application and the authenticated user need to have the permission to look up users in the entire enterprise. This endpoint also returns a limited set of information for external users who are collaborated on content owned by the enterprise for authenticated users with the right scopes. In this case, disallowed fields will return null instead.

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Basic Parameters

ParameterDescription
User IDThe ID of the user.

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Advanced Parameters

ParameterDescription
FieldsA comma-separated list of attributes to include in the response. This can be used to request fields that are not normally returned in a standard response.

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Example Output

{
	"address": "900 Jefferson Ave, Redwood City, CA 94063",
	"avatar_url": "https://www.box.com/api/avatar/large/181216415",
	"created_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
	"id": "11446498",
	"job_title": "CEO",
	"language": "en",
	"login": "ceo@example.com",
	"max_upload_size": 2147483648,
	"modified_at": "2012-12-12T10:53:43-08:00",
	"name": "Aaron Levie",
	"notification_email": {
		"email": "notifications@example.com",
		"is_confirmed": true
	},
	"phone": "6509241374",
	"space_amount": 11345156112,
	"space_used": 1237009912,
	"status": "active",
	"timezone": "Africa/Bujumbura",
	"type": "user"
}

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