Fetch single user data from box - box-api

Question

I am using box api integration to my app, I am facing an issue with fetching a single user data, I am an enterprise admin and I am getting all the users list when I use GET /users api. How can I take the single user out of this when I pass the login param of the User object. Any ideas ?

Answer 1

You can fetch a single user by using the filter_term query parameter to match all or part of the user's login (docs):
curl https://api.box.com/2.0/users?filter_term=prats
-H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN"
Response:
{
"total_count": 1,
"entries": [
{
"type": "user",
"id": "123456",
"name": "prats",
"login": "prats#stackoverflow.com",
...
}
]
}
Be aware that filter_term matches the beginning of the login string. If you have multiple users with names that start the same way, e.g. prats and prats2, the above request will return both of them. To prevent this, specify the entire login, or simply append an # to the end of the filter_term value:
curl https://api.box.com/2.0/users?filter_term=prats#
-H "Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN"