Return One MongoDB Cloud User by Username
Deprecated
Returns the details for one MongoDB Cloud user account with the specified username. You can't use this endpoint to return information about an API Key. To return information about an API Key, use the Return One Organization API Key endpoint. To use this resource, the requesting Service Account or API Key can have any role.
Path parameters
-
Email address that belongs to the MongoDB Cloud user account. You cannot modify this address after creating the user.
Query parameters
-
Flag that indicates whether Application wraps the response in an
envelope
JSON object. Some API clients cannot access the HTTP response headers or status code. To remediate this, set envelope=true in the query. Endpoints that return a list of results use the results object as an envelope. Application adds the status parameter to the response body.Default value is
false
. -
Flag that indicates whether the response body should be in the prettyprint format.
Default value is
false
.Prettyprint
atlas api getUserByUsername --help
import (
"os"
"context"
"log"
sdk "go.mongodb.org/atlas-sdk/v20250312001/admin"
)
func main() {
ctx := context.Background()
clientID := os.Getenv("MONGODB_ATLAS_CLIENT_ID")
clientSecret := os.Getenv("MONGODB_ATLAS_CLIENT_SECRET")
client, err := sdk.NewClient(
sdk.UseOAuthAuth(clientID, clientSecret),
sdk.UseBaseURL(url))
if err != nil {
log.Fatalf("Error: %v", err)
}
params = &sdk.GetUserByUsernameApiParams{}
sdkResp, httpResp, err := client.MongoDBCloudUsersApi.
GetUserByUsernameWithParams(ctx, params).
Execute()
}
curl --header "Authorization: Bearer ${ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
--header "Accept: application/vnd.atlas.2025-03-12+json" \
-X GET "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v2/users/byName/{userName}?pretty=true"
curl --user "${PUBLIC_KEY}:${PRIVATE_KEY}" \
--digest \
--header "Accept: application/vnd.atlas.2025-03-12+json" \
-X GET "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas/v2/users/byName/{userName}?pretty=true"
{
"country": "string",
"createdAt": "2025-05-04T09:42:00Z",
"emailAddress": "hello@example.com",
"firstName": "string",
"id": "32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8",
"lastAuth": "2025-05-04T09:42:00Z",
"lastName": "string",
"links": [
{
"href": "https://cloud.mongodb.com/api/atlas",
"rel": "self"
}
],
"mobileNumber": "string",
"password": "string",
"roles": [
{
"groupId": "32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8",
"orgId": "32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8",
"roleName": "ORG_MEMBER"
}
],
"teamIds": [
"32b6e34b3d91647abb20e7b8"
],
"username": "hello@example.com"
}
{
"error": 401,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint)",
"reason": "Unauthorized",
"errorCode": "NOT_ORG_GROUP_CREATOR"
}
{
"error": 403,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint)",
"reason": "Forbidden",
"errorCode": "CANNOT_CHANGE_GROUP_NAME"
}
{
"error": 404,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint) Cannot find resource AWS",
"reason": "Not Found",
"errorCode": "RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND"
}
{
"error": 500,
"detail": "(This is just an example, the exception may not be related to this endpoint)",
"reason": "Internal Server Error",
"errorCode": "UNEXPECTED_ERROR"
}