Users

Zendesk Support has three types of users: end users (your customers), agents, and administrators.

End users

End users request support through tickets. End users have access to Help Center where they can view knowledge base articles and community content, access their ticket history, and submit new tickets.

Agents

Agents work in Zendesk Support to solve tickets. Agents can be divided into multiple groups and can also belong to multiple groups. Agents don't have access to administrative configuration in Zendesk Support such as business rules or automations, but can configure their own macros and views.

Administrators

Administrators have all the abilities of agents, plus administrative abilities. Accounts on the Enterprise plan and above can configure custom roles to give agents varying degrees of administrative access.

Listing Requested Tickets and CC'ed Tickets

Use the Tickets API to list:

• tickets requested by a user
• tickets on which a user is cc'ed

Listing Help Center Content by a User

Use the Help Center API to list:

• articles and article comments created by a user
• community posts and post comments created by a user

JSON format

Users are represented as JSON objects with the following properties:

Name	Type	Read-only	Mandatory	Description
active	boolean	true	false	false if the user has been deleted
alias	string	false	false	An alias displayed to end users
chat_only	boolean	true	false	Whether or not the user is a chat-only agent
created_at	string	true	false	The time the user was created
custom_role_id	integer	false	false	A custom role if the user is an agent on the Enterprise plan or above
default_group_id	integer	false	false	The id of the user's default group
details	string	false	false	Any details you want to store about the user, such as an address
email	string	false	false	The user's primary email address. *Writeable on create only. On update, a secondary email is added. See Email Address
external_id	string	false	false	A unique identifier from another system. The API treats the id as case insensitive. Example: "ian1" and "IAN1" are the same value.
iana_time_zone	string	true	false	The time zone for the user
id	integer	true	false	Automatically assigned when the user is created
last_login_at	string	true	false	Last time the user signed in to Zendesk Support or made an API request using an API token or basic authentication
locale	string	false	false	The user's locale. A BCP-47 compliant tag for the locale. If both "locale" and "locale_id" are present on create or update, "locale_id" is ignored and only "locale" is used.
locale_id	integer	false	false	The user's language identifier
moderator	boolean	false	false	Designates whether the user has forum moderation capabilities
name	string	false	true	The user's name
notes	string	false	false	Any notes you want to store about the user
only_private_comments	boolean	false	false	true if the user can only create private comments
organization_id	integer	false	false	The id of the user's organization. If the user has more than one organization memberships, the id of the user's default organization. If updating, see Organization ID
phone	string	false	false	The user's primary phone number. See Phone Number below
photo	object	false	false	The user's profile picture represented as an Attachment object
remote_photo_url	string	false	false	A URL pointing to the user's profile picture.
report_csv	boolean	true	false	This parameter is inert and has no effect. It may be deprecated in the future. Previously, this parameter determined whether a user could access a CSV report in a legacy Guide dashboard. This dashboard has been removed. See Announcing Guide legacy reporting upgrade to Explore
restricted_agent	boolean	false	false	If the agent has any restrictions; false for admins and unrestricted agents, true for other agents
role	string	false	false	The user's role. Possible values are "end-user", "agent", or "admin"
role_type	integer	true	false	The user's role id. 0 for a custom agent, 1 for a light agent, 2 for a chat agent, 3 for a chat agent added to the Support account as a contributor (Chat Phase 4), 4 for an admin, and 5 for a billing admin
shared	boolean	true	false	If the user is shared from a different Zendesk Support instance. Ticket sharing accounts only
shared_agent	boolean	true	false	If the user is a shared agent from a different Zendesk Support instance. Ticket sharing accounts only
shared_phone_number	boolean	false	false	Whether the phone number is shared or not. See Phone Number below
signature	string	false	false	The user's signature. Only agents and admins can have signatures
suspended	boolean	false	false	If the agent is suspended. Tickets from suspended users are also suspended, and these users cannot sign in to the end user portal
tags	array	false	false	The user's tags. Only present if your account has user tagging enabled
ticket_restriction	string	false	false	Specifies which tickets the user has access to. Possible values are: "organization", "groups", "assigned", "requested", null. "groups" and "assigned" are valid only for agents. If you pass an invalid value to an end user (for example, "groups"), they will be assigned to "requested", regardless of their previous access
time_zone	string	false	false	The user's time zone. See Time Zone
two_factor_auth_enabled	boolean	true	false	If two factor authentication is enabled
updated_at	string	true	false	The time the user was last updated
url	string	true	false	The user's API url
user_fields	object	false	false	Values of custom fields in the user's profile. See User Fields
verified	boolean	false	false	Any of the user's identities is verified. See User Identities

Email Address

You can specify a user's primary email address when you create the user. See Specifying email and verified attributes.

To update a user's primary email address, use the Make Identity Primary endpoint.

Time Zone

A time_zone name consists of a string such as "Eastern Time (US & Canada)". For a list of valid names, click https://support.zendesk.com/api/v2/time_zones. For details, see Time Zones.

Request body in User API:

{
 "user": {
   "id":   35436,
   "name": "Johnny Agent",
   "time_zone": "Berlin",
   ...
 }
}

User Fields

You can use the user_fields object to set the value of one or more custom fields in the user's profile. Specify field keys as the properties to set. Example:

"user_fields": {
   "membership_level": "silver",
   "membership_expires": "2019-07-23T00:00:00Z"
 }

For more information, see User Fields and Adding custom fields to users.

Phone Number

The phone number should comply with the E.164 international telephone numbering plan. Example [phone]. E164 numbers are international numbers with a country dial prefix, usually an area code and a subscriber number. A valid E.164 phone number must include a country calling code.

A phone number can be one of the following types:

• A direct line linked to a single user, which is indicated by a shared_phone_number attribute of false. A direct line can be used as a user identity
• A shared number linked to multiple users, indicated by a shared_phone_number attribute of true. A shared number can not be used as a user identity

See Understanding how phone numbers are linked to end-user profiles in the Support Help Center.

Organization ID

The organization_id property returns the id of the user's organization. If the user has more than one organization memberships, the id of the user's default organization is returned.

The field is writable. However, if you make a request to update the organization_id property, the organization_id of the request updates the default organization for that user and removes all other organizations currently associated with that user. Zendesk recommends using the Organization Memberships API to add or delete organizations for a user.

JSON Format for End Users

When an end user makes the request, the user is returned with the following attributes:

Name	Type	Read-only	Mandatory	Comment
id	integer	yes	no	Automatically assigned when creating users
email	string	no	no	The primary email address of this user. If the primary email address is not verified, the secondary email address is used
name	string	no	yes	The name of the user
created_at	date	yes	no	The time the user was created
locale	string	yes	no	The locale for this user
locale_id	integer	no	no	The language identifier for this user
organization_id	integer	no	no	The id of the user's organization. If the user has more than one organization memberships, the id of the user's default organization. If updating, see Organization ID
phone	string	no	no	The primary phone number of this user. See Phone Number in the Users API
shared_phone_number	boolean	yes	no	Whether the phone number is shared or not. See Phone Number in the Users API
photo	Attachment	no	no	The user's profile picture represented as an Attachment object
role	string	no	no	The role of the user. Possible values: "end-user", "agent", "admin"
time_zone	string	no	no	The time-zone of this user
updated_at	date	yes	no	The time of the last update of the user
url	string	yes	no	The API url of this user
verified	boolean	no	no	Any of the user's identities is verified. See User Identities

Responses will vary depending on the role of the client making the request. The following example is a response for an end-user role.

Example

{
  "id":                    35436,
  "url":                   "https://company.zendesk.com/api/v2/end_users/35436.json",
  "name":                  "Johnny End User",
  "created_at":            "2009-07-20T22:55:29Z",
  "updated_at":            "2011-05-05T10:38:52Z",
  "time_zone":             "Copenhagen",
  "email":                 "[email protected]",
  "phone":                 "[phone]",
  "locale":                "en-US",
  "locale_id":             1,
  "organization_id":       57542,
  "role":                  "end-user",
  "verified":              true,
  "photo": {
    "id":           928374,
    "name":         "my_funny_profile_pic.png",
    "content_url":  "https://company.zendesk.com/photos/my_funny_profile_pic.png",
    "content_type": "image/png",
    "size":         166144,
    "thumbnails": [
      {
      "id":           928375,
      "name":         "my_funny_profile_pic_thumb.png",
      "content_url":  "https://company.zendesk.com/photos/my_funny_profile_pic_thumb.png",
      "content_type": "image/png",
      "size":         58298
      }
    ]
  }
}

This example is a response for an admin or agent request.

Example

{
  "active": true,
  "alias": "Mr. Johnny",
  "created_at": "2009-07-20T22:55:29Z",
  "custom_role_id": 9373643,
  "details": "",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "external_id": "sai989sur98w9",
  "iana_time_zone": "Pacific/Pago_Pago",
  "id": 35436,
  "last_login_at": "2011-05-05T10:38:52Z",
  "locale": "en-US",
  "locale_id": 1,
  "moderator": true,
  "name": "Johnny Agent",
  "notes": "Johnny is a nice guy!",
  "only_private_comments": false,
  "organization_id": 57542,
  "phone": "[phone]",
  "photo": {
    "content_type": "image/png",
    "content_url": "https://company.zendesk.com/photos/my_funny_profile_pic.png",
    "id": 928374,
    "name": "my_funny_profile_pic.png",
    "size": 166144,
    "thumbnails": [
      {
        "content_type": "image/png",
        "content_url": "https://company.zendesk.com/photos/my_funny_profile_pic_thumb.png",
        "id": 928375,
        "name": "my_funny_profile_pic_thumb.png",
        "size": 58298
      }
    ]
  },
  "restricted_agent": true,
  "role": "agent",
  "role_type": 0,
  "shared": false,
  "shared_agent": false,
  "signature": "Have a nice day, Johnny",
  "suspended": true,
  "tags": [
    "enterprise",
    "other_tag"
  ],
  "ticket_restriction": "assigned",
  "time_zone": "Copenhagen",
  "updated_at": "2011-05-05T10:38:52Z",
  "url": "https://company.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436.json",
  "user_fields": {
    "user_date": "2012-07-23T00:00:00Z",
    "user_decimal": 5.1,
    "user_dropdown": "option_1"
  },
  "verified": true
}

List Users

• GET /api/v2/users
• GET /api/v2/groups/{group_id}/users
• GET /api/v2/organizations/{organization_id}/users

Pagination

• Cursor pagination (recommended)
• Offset pagination

See Pagination.

Returns a maximum of 100 records per page.

Allowed For

• Admins, Agents and Light Agents

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
external_id	string	Query	false	List users by external id. External id has to be unique for each user under the same account.
permission_set	integer	Query	false	For custom roles which is available on the Enterprise plan and above. You can only filter by one role ID per request
role	string	Query	false	Filters the results by role. Possible values are "end-user", "agent", or "admin". Allowed values are "end-user", "agent", or "admin".
role[]	string	Query	false	Filters the results by more than one role using the format role[]={role}&role[]={role}

Code Samples

cURL

# List Users
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users.json \
   -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}
# with role filtering
# **Note**: If filtering by multiple roles in curl, make sure to include
# the `-g` flag to prevent curl from interpreting the square brackets
# as globbing characters. Also enclose the URL in quotes. Example:
curl -g 'https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users.json?role[]=admin&role[]=end-user' \
 -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users?external_id=abc&permission_set=123&role=agent&role[]=agent"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("external_id", "abc")
		.addQueryParameter("permission_set", "123")
		.addQueryParameter("role", "agent")
		.addQueryParameter("role[]", "agent");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  params: {
    'external_id': 'abc',
    'permission_set': '123',
    'role': 'agent',
    'role[]': 'agent',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users?external_id=abc&permission_set=123&role=agent&role[]=agent"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("external_id": "abc", "permission_set": "123", "role": "agent", "role[]": "agent")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "users": [
    {
      "id": 223443,
      "name": "Johnny Agent"
    },
    {
      "id": 8678530,
      "name": "James A. Rosen"
    }
  ]
}

Search Users

• GET /api/v2/users/search

Returns an array of users who meet the search criteria.

Returns up to 100 records per page to a maximum of 10,000 records per query. See Using offset pagination.

Pagination

• Offset pagination only

See Using Offset Pagination.

Allowed For

• Agents

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
external_id	string	Query	false	The external_id parameter does not support the search syntax. It only accepts ids.
query	string	Query	false	The query parameter supports the Zendesk search syntax for more advanced user searches. It can specify a partial or full value of any user property, including name, email address, notes, or phone. Example: query="jdoe". See the Search API.

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/search.json?query=gil \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/search?external_id=abc124&query=jdoe"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/search")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("external_id", "abc124")
		.addQueryParameter("query", "jdoe");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/search',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  params: {
    'external_id': 'abc124',
    'query': 'jdoe',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/search?external_id=abc124&query=jdoe"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/search")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("external_id": "abc124", "query": "jdoe")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "users": [
    {
      "id": 35436,
      "name": "Robert Jones",
      "notes": "sigil issue"
    },
    {
      "id": 9873843,
      "name": "Terry Gilliam"
    }
  ]
}

Autocomplete Users

• GET /api/v2/users/autocomplete?name={name}

Returns an array of users whose name starts with the value specified in the name parameter. It only returns users with no foreign identities.

Allowed For

• Agents

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
field_id	string	Query	false	The id of a lookup relationship field. The type of field is determined by the source param
name	string	Query	true	The name to search for the user.
source	string	Query	false	If a field_id is provided, this specifies the type of the field. For example, if the field is on a "zen:user", it references a field on a user

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/autocomplete.json?name=gil \
  -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/autocomplete?field_id=&name=gil&source="
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/autocomplete")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("field_id", "")
		.addQueryParameter("name", "gil")
		.addQueryParameter("source", "");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/autocomplete',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  params: {
    'field_id': '',
    'name': 'gil',
    'source': '',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/autocomplete?field_id=&name=gil&source="
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/autocomplete")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("field_id": "", "name": "gil", "source": "")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "users": [
    {
      "id": 35436,
      "name": "Robert Jones",
      "notes": "sigil issue"
    },
    {
      "id": 9873843,
      "name": "Terry Gilliam"
    }
  ]
}

Count Users

• GET /api/v2/users/count
• GET /api/v2/groups/{group_id}/users/count
• GET /api/v2/organizations/{organization_id}/users/count

Returns an approximate count of users. If the count exceeds 100,000, it is updated every 24 hours.

The response includes a refreshed_at property in a count object that contains a timestamp indicating when the count was last updated.

Note: When the count exceeds 100,000, the refreshed_at property may occasionally be null. This indicates that the count is being updated in the background. The count object's value property is limited to 100,000 until the update is complete.

Allowed For

• Admins, Agents and Light Agents

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
permission_set	integer	Query	false	For custom roles which is available on the Enterprise plan and above. You can only filter by one role ID per request
role	string	Query	false	Filters the results by role. Possible values are "end-user", "agent", or "admin". Allowed values are "end-user", "agent", or "admin".
role[]	string	Query	false	Filters the results by more than one role using the format role[]={role}&role[]={role}

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/count.json \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/count?permission_set=123&role=agent&role[]=agent"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/count")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("permission_set", "123")
		.addQueryParameter("role", "agent")
		.addQueryParameter("role[]", "agent");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/count',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  params: {
    'permission_set': '123',
    'role': 'agent',
    'role[]': 'agent',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/count?permission_set=123&role=agent&role[]=agent"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/count")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("permission_set": "123", "role": "agent", "role[]": "agent")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "count": {
    "refreshed_at": "2020-04-06T02:18:17Z",
    "value": 102
  }
}

Show User

• GET /api/v2/users/{user_id}

Allowed For

• Agents

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
user_id	integer	Path	true	The id of the user

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/{user_id}.json \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436")
		.newBuilder();
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "user": {
    "id": 35436,
    "name": "Johnny Agent"
  }
}

Show Many Users

• GET /api/v2/users/show_many

Accepts a comma-separated list of up to 100 user ids or external ids.

Allowed For:

• Agents

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
external_ids	string	Query	false	Accepts a comma-separated list of up to 100 external ids.
ids	string	Query	false	Accepts a comma-separated list of up to 100 user ids.

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/show_many.json?ids=345678,901234 \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/show_many?external_ids=abc%2Cdef&ids=1%2C2"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/show_many")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("external_ids", "abc,def")
		.addQueryParameter("ids", "1,2");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/show_many',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  params: {
    'external_ids': 'abc%2Cdef',
    'ids': '1%2C2',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/show_many?external_ids=abc%2Cdef&ids=1%2C2"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/show_many")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("external_ids": "abc,def", "ids": "1,2")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "users": [
    {
      "id": 345678,
      "name": "Johnny Appleseed"
    },
    {
      "id": 901234,
      "name": "Rupert Root"
    }
  ]
}

Show User Related Information

• GET /api/v2/users/{user_id}/related

JSON Format

The JSON returned by this endpoint includes the following properties.

Note: Depending on the user's permissions, the count results may not match the actual number of tickets returned.

Name	Type	Comment
assigned_tickets	integer	Count of assigned tickets
requested_tickets	integer	Count of requested tickets
ccd_tickets	integer	Count of collaborated tickets
organization_subscriptions	integer	Count of organization subscriptions

Allowed For:

• Agents

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
user_id	integer	Path	true	The id of the user

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/{user_id}/related.json \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/related"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/related")
		.newBuilder();
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/related',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/related"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/related")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "user_related": {
    "assigned_tickets": 5,
    "ccd_tickets": 3,
    "organization_subscriptions": 1,
    "requested_tickets": 10
  }
}

Show Self

• GET /api/v2/users/me

The endpoint returns user information and an authenticity_token.

Allowed For

• Anonymous users

Authenticity Token

Zendesk API calls made by end users from a Zendesk help center must include authenticity_token in the X-CSRF-Token HTTP header. This helps prevent cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks.

For an example using an authenticity token, see the AJAX request in the Upgrading from Templating API v1 documentation.

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/me.json \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/me"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/me")
		.newBuilder();
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/me',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/me"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/me")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "user": {
    "active": true,
    "alias": "Mr. Johnny",
    "authenticity_token": "<CORS TOKEN>",
    "created_at": "2009-07-20T22:55:29Z",
    "custom_role_id": 9373643,
    "details": "",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "external_id": "sai989sur98w9",
    "id": 35436,
    "last_login_at": "2011-05-05T10:38:52Z",
    "locale": "en-US",
    "locale_id": 1,
    "moderator": true,
    "name": "Johnny Agent",
    "notes": "Johnny is a nice guy!",
    "only_private_comments": false,
    "organization_id": 57542,
    "phone": "[phone]",
    "photo": {
      "content_type": "image/png",
      "content_url": "https://company.zendesk.com/photos/my_funny_profile_pic.png",
      "id": 928374,
      "name": "my_funny_profile_pic.png",
      "size": 166144,
      "thumbnails": [
        {
          "content_type": "image/png",
          "content_url": "https://company.zendesk.com/photos/my_funny_profile_pic_thumb.png",
          "id": 928375,
          "name": "my_funny_profile_pic_thumb.png",
          "size": 58298
        }
      ]
    },
    "restricted_agent": true,
    "role": "agent",
    "role_type": 0,
    "shared": false,
    "shared_agent": false,
    "signature": "Have a nice day, Johnny",
    "suspended": true,
    "tags": [
      "enterprise",
      "other_tag"
    ],
    "ticket_restriction": "assigned",
    "time_zone": "Copenhagen",
    "updated_at": "2011-05-05T10:38:52Z",
    "url": "https://company.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436.json",
    "user_fields": {
      "user_date": "2012-07-23T00:00:00Z",
      "user_decimal": 5.1,
      "user_dropdown": "option_1"
    },
    "verified": true
  }
}

Create User

• POST /api/v2/users

Skip verification email

If you need to create users without sending out a verification email, include a "skip_verify_email": true property.

User role

If you don't specify a role parameter, the new user is assigned the role of end user.

If you need to create agents with a specific role, the role property only accepts three possible values: "end-user", "agent", and "admin". Therefore, set role to "agent" as well as add a new property called custom_role_id and give it the actual desired role ID from your Zendesk Support account. This applies to the built-in light agent role of Zendesk Support as well.

If you set role to "end-user" but include a custom_role_id value, role will be set to "agent".

Create User with Multiple Identities

If you have a user with multiple identities, such as email addresses and X (formerly Twitter) accounts, you can also include these values at creation time by including an identities array where each identity in the array has a type and value property. Example: {"type": "email", "value": "[email protected]"}. This is especially useful when importing users from another system.

Allowed For

• Admins and agents in custom roles with permission to manage team members

Example body

{
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "identities": [
      {
        "type": "email",
        "value": "[email protected]"
      },
      {
        "type": "twitter",
        "value": "tester84"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization": {
      "name": "VIP Customers"
    },
    "role": "agent"
  }
}

Code Samples

cURL

# with role
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users.json \
  -d '{"user": {"name": "Roger Wilco", "email": "[email protected]", "role": "agent", "custom_role_id": 123456}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

# with organization
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users.json \
  -d '{"user": {"name": "Roger Wilco", "email": "[email protected]", "organization": {"name": "VIP Customers"}}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

# with identities
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users.json \
-d '{"user": {"name": "Roger Wilco", "identities": [{ "type": "email", "value": "[email protected]"}, {"type": "twitter", "value": "tester84" }]}}' \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
-v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users"
	method := "POST"
	payload := strings.NewReader(`{
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "identities": [
      {
        "type": "email",
        "value": "[email protected]"
      },
      {
        "type": "twitter",
        "value": "tester84"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization": {
      "name": "VIP Customers"
    },
    "role": "agent"
  }
}`)
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users")
		.newBuilder();
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
{
  \"user\": {
    \"custom_role_id\": 123456,
    \"email\": \"[e-mail]\",
    \"identities\": [
      {
        \"type\": \"email\",
        \"value\": \"[e-mail]\"
      },
      {
        \"type\": \"twitter\",
        \"value\": \"tester84\"
      }
    ],
    \"name\": \"Roger Wilco\",
    \"organization\": {
      \"name\": \"VIP Customers\"
    },
    \"role\": \"agent\"
  }
}""");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("POST", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');
var data = JSON.stringify({
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "identities": [
      {
        "type": "email",
        "value": "[email protected]"
      },
      {
        "type": "twitter",
        "value": "tester84"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization": {
      "name": "VIP Customers"
    },
    "role": "agent"
  }
});

var config = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  data : data,
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
import json
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users"

payload = json.loads("""{
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "identities": [
      {
        "type": "email",
        "value": "[email protected]"
      },
      {
        "type": "twitter",
        "value": "tester84"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization": {
      "name": "VIP Customers"
    },
    "role": "agent"
  }
}""")
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"POST",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers,
	json=payload
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.body = %q({
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "identities": [
      {
        "type": "email",
        "value": "[email protected]"
      },
      {
        "type": "twitter",
        "value": "tester84"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization": {
      "name": "VIP Customers"
    },
    "role": "agent"
  }
})
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

201 Created

// Status 201 Created

{
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "id": 9873843,
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization_id": 57542,
    "role": "agent",
    "role_type": 0
  }
}

Create Many Users

• POST /api/v2/users/create_many

Accepts an array of up to 100 user objects.

Note: To protect the data in your Zendesk account, bulk user imports are not enabled by default in Zendesk accounts. The account owner must contact Zendesk Customer Support to enable the imports. A 403 Forbidden error is returned if data imports are not enabled.

Allowed For

• Admins and agents in custom roles with permission to manage end users or team members

Specifying an organization

You can assign a user to an existing organization by setting an organization_id property in the user object.

Response

This endpoint returns a job_status JSON object and queues a background job to do the work. Use the Show Job Status endpoint to check for the job's completion. Only a certain number of jobs can be queued or running at the same time. See Job limit for more information.

Example body

{
  "users": [
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Roger Wilco",
      "organization_id": 567812345,
      "role": "agent"
    },
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Woger Rilco",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
}

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_many.json \
  -d '{"users": [{"name": "Roger Wilco", "email": "[email protected]", "role": "agent"}, {"name": "Woger Rilco", "email": "[email protected]", "role": "admin"}]}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_many"
	method := "POST"
	payload := strings.NewReader(`{
  "users": [
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Roger Wilco",
      "organization_id": 567812345,
      "role": "agent"
    },
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Woger Rilco",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
}`)
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_many")
		.newBuilder();
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
{
  \"users\": [
    {
      \"email\": \"[e-mail]\",
      \"name\": \"Roger Wilco\",
      \"organization_id\": 567812345,
      \"role\": \"agent\"
    },
    {
      \"email\": \"[e-mail]\",
      \"name\": \"Woger Rilco\",
      \"role\": \"admin\"
    }
  ]
}""");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("POST", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');
var data = JSON.stringify({
  "users": [
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Roger Wilco",
      "organization_id": 567812345,
      "role": "agent"
    },
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Woger Rilco",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
});

var config = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_many',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  data : data,
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
import json
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_many"

payload = json.loads("""{
  "users": [
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Roger Wilco",
      "organization_id": 567812345,
      "role": "agent"
    },
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Woger Rilco",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
}""")
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"POST",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers,
	json=payload
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_many")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.body = %q({
  "users": [
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Roger Wilco",
      "organization_id": 567812345,
      "role": "agent"
    },
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "name": "Woger Rilco",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
})
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "job_status": {
    "id": "82de0b044094f0c67893ac9fe64f1a99",
    "message": "Completed at 2018-03-08 10:07:04 +0000",
    "progress": 2,
    "results": [
      {
        "action": "update",
        "id": 244,
        "status": "Updated",
        "success": true
      },
      {
        "action": "update",
        "id": 245,
        "status": "Updated",
        "success": true
      }
    ],
    "status": "completed",
    "total": 2,
    "url": "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/job_statuses/82de0b0467893ac9fe64f1a99.json"
  }
}

Create Or Update User

• POST /api/v2/users/create_or_update

Creates a user if the user does not already exist, or updates an existing user identified by e-mail address or external ID.

If you don't specify a role parameter, the new user is assigned the role of end user.

If you need to create users without sending out a verification email, include a "skip_verify_email": true property in the body.

External ID Case Sensitivity

When providing an external id to identify an existing user to update, the search for the user record is not case sensitive.

However, if an existing user is found, the system will update the user's external id to match the case of the external id used to find the user.

Response Status Code

• If the user exists in Zendesk, a successful request returns a 200 status code with "Location: /api/v2/users/{user_id}.json".
• If the user does not exist in Zendesk, a successful request returns a 201 status code with "Location: /api/v2/users/{new_user_id}.json".

Allowed For

• Admins and agents in custom roles with permission to manage end users or team members

Example body

{
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "identities": [
      {
        "type": "email",
        "value": "[email protected]"
      },
      {
        "type": "twitter",
        "value": "tester84"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization": {
      "name": "VIP Customers"
    },
    "role": "agent"
  }
}

Limits

This endpoint has its own rate limit that is different from the account wide rate limit. When calls are made to this endpoint, this limit will be consumed and you will get a 429 Too Many Requests response code if the allocation is exhausted.

Headers

API responses include usage limit information in the headers for this endpoint.

Zendesk-RateLimit-create-update-user: total={number}; remaining={number}; resets={number}

Within this header, “Total” signifies the initial allocation, “Remaining” indicates the remaining allowance for the current interval, and “Resets” denotes the wait time in seconds before the limit refreshes. You can see the Total, and Interval values in the below table.

Details

The rate limit is 5 requests per minute for each unique end user profile. For example, you can make 1 call per second as long as you make five calls for one user and five calls for another user. The rate limiting mechanism behaves as described in Usage Limits in the API introduction. Zendesk recommends that you obey the Retry-After header values.

Rate limit for creating or updating a single user. If you need to update many users, consider the create_or_update_many endpoint.

Rate Limits	Scopes	Interval	Sandbox	Trial	Default
Standard	Account	1 second	1	1	1
Standard	User	1 minute	5	5	5

"Default" applies to all Zendesk suite and support plans. Please refer to the general account limits for more information.

Code Samples

cURL

# Existing user identified by e-mail address:
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update.json \
  -d '{"user": {"name": "Roger Wilco", "email": "[email protected]"}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

# Existing user identified by external ID:
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update.json \
  -d '{"user": {"external_id": "account_12345", "name": "Roger Wilco", "email": "[email protected]"}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

# The user can also be added to a named organization.
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update.json \
  -d '{"user": {"name": "Roger Wilco", "email": "[email protected]", "organization": {"name": "VIP Customers"}}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update"
	method := "POST"
	payload := strings.NewReader(`{
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "identities": [
      {
        "type": "email",
        "value": "[email protected]"
      },
      {
        "type": "twitter",
        "value": "tester84"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization": {
      "name": "VIP Customers"
    },
    "role": "agent"
  }
}`)
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update")
		.newBuilder();
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
{
  \"user\": {
    \"custom_role_id\": 123456,
    \"email\": \"[e-mail]\",
    \"identities\": [
      {
        \"type\": \"email\",
        \"value\": \"[e-mail]\"
      },
      {
        \"type\": \"twitter\",
        \"value\": \"tester84\"
      }
    ],
    \"name\": \"Roger Wilco\",
    \"organization\": {
      \"name\": \"VIP Customers\"
    },
    \"role\": \"agent\"
  }
}""");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("POST", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');
var data = JSON.stringify({
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "identities": [
      {
        "type": "email",
        "value": "[email protected]"
      },
      {
        "type": "twitter",
        "value": "tester84"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization": {
      "name": "VIP Customers"
    },
    "role": "agent"
  }
});

var config = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  data : data,
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
import json
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update"

payload = json.loads("""{
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "identities": [
      {
        "type": "email",
        "value": "[email protected]"
      },
      {
        "type": "twitter",
        "value": "tester84"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization": {
      "name": "VIP Customers"
    },
    "role": "agent"
  }
}""")
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"POST",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers,
	json=payload
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.body = %q({
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "identities": [
      {
        "type": "email",
        "value": "[email protected]"
      },
      {
        "type": "twitter",
        "value": "tester84"
      }
    ],
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization": {
      "name": "VIP Customers"
    },
    "role": "agent"
  }
})
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "id": 9873843,
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization_id": 57542,
    "role": "agent",
    "role_type": 0
  }
}

201 Created

// Status 201 Created

{
  "user": {
    "custom_role_id": 123456,
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "id": 9873843,
    "name": "Roger Wilco",
    "organization_id": 57542,
    "role": "agent",
    "role_type": 0
  }
}

Create Or Update Many Users

• POST /api/v2/users/create_or_update_many

Accepts an array of up to 100 user objects. For each user, the user is created if it does not already exist, or the existing user is updated.

Note: To protect the data in your Zendesk account, bulk user imports are not enabled by default in Zendesk accounts. The account owner must contact Zendesk Customer Support to enable the imports. A 403 Forbidden error is returned if data imports are not enabled.

Each individual user object can identify an existing user by email or by external_id.

This endpoint returns a job_status JSON object and queues a background job to do the work. Use the Show Job Status endpoint to check for the job's completion. Only a certain number of jobs can be queued or running at the same time. See Job limit for more information.

Allowed For

• Admins and agents in custom roles with permission to manage end users or team members

Example body

{
  "users": [
    {
      "custom_role_id": 123456,
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "identities": [
        {
          "type": "email",
          "value": "[email protected]"
        },
        {
          "type": "twitter",
          "value": "tester84"
        }
      ],
      "name": "Roger Wilco",
      "organization": {
        "name": "VIP Customers"
      },
      "role": "agent"
    },
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "external_id": "account_54321",
      "name": "Woger Rilco",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
}

Code Samples

cURL

# Existing user identified by e-mail address:
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update_many.json \
  -d '{"users": [{"name": "Roger Wilco", "email": "[email protected]", "role": "agent"}, {"external_id": "account_54321", "name": "Woger Rilco", "email": "[email protected]", "role": "admin"}]}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update_many"
	method := "POST"
	payload := strings.NewReader(`{
  "users": [
    {
      "custom_role_id": 123456,
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "identities": [
        {
          "type": "email",
          "value": "[email protected]"
        },
        {
          "type": "twitter",
          "value": "tester84"
        }
      ],
      "name": "Roger Wilco",
      "organization": {
        "name": "VIP Customers"
      },
      "role": "agent"
    },
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "external_id": "account_54321",
      "name": "Woger Rilco",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
}`)
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update_many")
		.newBuilder();
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
{
  \"users\": [
    {
      \"custom_role_id\": 123456,
      \"email\": \"[e-mail]\",
      \"identities\": [
        {
          \"type\": \"email\",
          \"value\": \"[e-mail]\"
        },
        {
          \"type\": \"twitter\",
          \"value\": \"tester84\"
        }
      ],
      \"name\": \"Roger Wilco\",
      \"organization\": {
        \"name\": \"VIP Customers\"
      },
      \"role\": \"agent\"
    },
    {
      \"email\": \"[e-mail]\",
      \"external_id\": \"account_54321\",
      \"name\": \"Woger Rilco\",
      \"role\": \"admin\"
    }
  ]
}""");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("POST", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');
var data = JSON.stringify({
  "users": [
    {
      "custom_role_id": 123456,
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "identities": [
        {
          "type": "email",
          "value": "[email protected]"
        },
        {
          "type": "twitter",
          "value": "tester84"
        }
      ],
      "name": "Roger Wilco",
      "organization": {
        "name": "VIP Customers"
      },
      "role": "agent"
    },
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "external_id": "account_54321",
      "name": "Woger Rilco",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
});

var config = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update_many',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  data : data,
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
import json
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update_many"

payload = json.loads("""{
  "users": [
    {
      "custom_role_id": 123456,
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "identities": [
        {
          "type": "email",
          "value": "[email protected]"
        },
        {
          "type": "twitter",
          "value": "tester84"
        }
      ],
      "name": "Roger Wilco",
      "organization": {
        "name": "VIP Customers"
      },
      "role": "agent"
    },
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "external_id": "account_54321",
      "name": "Woger Rilco",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
}""")
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"POST",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers,
	json=payload
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/create_or_update_many")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.body = %q({
  "users": [
    {
      "custom_role_id": 123456,
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "identities": [
        {
          "type": "email",
          "value": "[email protected]"
        },
        {
          "type": "twitter",
          "value": "tester84"
        }
      ],
      "name": "Roger Wilco",
      "organization": {
        "name": "VIP Customers"
      },
      "role": "agent"
    },
    {
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "external_id": "account_54321",
      "name": "Woger Rilco",
      "role": "admin"
    }
  ]
})
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "job_status": {
    "id": "82de0b044094f0c67893ac9fe64f1a99",
    "message": "Completed at 2018-03-08 10:07:04 +0000",
    "progress": 2,
    "results": [
      {
        "action": "update",
        "id": 244,
        "status": "Updated",
        "success": true
      },
      {
        "action": "update",
        "id": 245,
        "status": "Updated",
        "success": true
      }
    ],
    "status": "completed",
    "total": 2,
    "url": "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/job_statuses/82de0b0467893ac9fe64f1a99.json"
  }
}

Request User Create

• POST /api/v2/users/request_create

Sends the owner a reminder email to update their subscription so more agents can be created.

Allowed For

• Agents

Example body

{
  "user": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Roger Wilco"
  }
}

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/request_create.json \
  -d '{"user": {"name": "Roger Wilco", "email": "[email protected]"}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -X POST -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/request_create"
	method := "POST"
	payload := strings.NewReader(`{
  "user": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Roger Wilco"
  }
}`)
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/request_create")
		.newBuilder();
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
{
  \"user\": {
    \"email\": \"[e-mail]\",
    \"name\": \"Roger Wilco\"
  }
}""");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("POST", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');
var data = JSON.stringify({
  "user": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Roger Wilco"
  }
});

var config = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/request_create',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  data : data,
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
import json
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/request_create"

payload = json.loads("""{
  "user": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Roger Wilco"
  }
}""")
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"POST",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers,
	json=payload
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/request_create")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.body = %q({
  "user": {
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "name": "Roger Wilco"
  }
})
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

null

Update User

• PUT /api/v2/users/{user_id}

Specifying email and verified attributes

• If both email and verified attributes are provided, the provided email is added to the user as a secondary email with the verified property set to the specified value. The primary email remains unmodified
• If only email is provided, the provided email is added to the user as a secondary email with the verified property set property set to false. The primary email remains unmodified
• If only verified is provided, the verified property of the primary email identity is set to the given value

Suspending a user

You can suspend a user by setting its suspended attribute to true.

When a user is suspended, the user is not allowed to sign in to Help Center and all further tickets are suspended.

Updating a user's profile image

You can update a user's profile image by uploading a local file or by referring to an image hosted on a different website. The second option may take a few minutes to process.

Updating a user's phone number

If a user doesn't have a phone number and a phone property is provided:

• If the phone number is unique, it is added as a direct line and a user identity is created
• If the phone number is not unique, it is added as a shared number and a user identity is not created

If a user has a shared number and a phone property is provided:

• If the phone number is unique, it is added as a direct line and a user identity is created
• If the phone number is not unique, it is added as another shared number and a user identity is not created

If the user has a direct line, and a phone property is provided, a user identity is created and a secondary phone number is added.

Rate Limit

The rate limit for updating a single, unique user is 5 requests per minute. The rate limiting mechanism behaves as described in Usage Limits in the API introduction. Zendesk recommends that you obey the Retry-After header values.

Allowed For

• Admins and agents in custom roles with permission to manage end users or team members

Agents can only update end users. Administrators can update end users, agents, and administrators.

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
user_id	integer	Path	true	The id of the user

Example body

{
  "user": {
    "name": "Roger Wilco II"
  }
}

Limits

This endpoint has its own rate limit that is different from the account wide rate limit. When calls are made to this endpoint, this limit will be consumed and you will get a 429 Too Many Requests response code if the allocation is exhausted.

Headers

API responses include usage limit information in the headers for this endpoint.

Zendesk-RateLimit-create-update-user: total={number}; remaining={number}; resets={number}

Within this header, “Total” signifies the initial allocation, “Remaining” indicates the remaining allowance for the current interval, and “Resets” denotes the wait time in seconds before the limit refreshes. You can see the Total, and Interval values in the below table.

Details

The rate limit is 5 requests per minute for each unique end user profile. For example, you can make 1 call per second as long as you make five calls for one user and five calls for another user. The rate limiting mechanism behaves as described in Usage Limits in the API introduction. Zendesk recommends that you obey the Retry-After header values.

Rate limit for creating or updating a single user. If you need to update many users, consider the create_or_update_many endpoint.

Rate Limits	Scopes	Interval	Sandbox	Trial	Default
Standard	Account	1 second	1	1	1
Standard	User	1 minute	5	5	5

"Default" applies to all Zendesk suite and support plans. Please refer to the general account limits for more information.

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/{user_id}.json \
  -d '{"user": {"name": "Roger Wilco II"}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

# Suspending an user
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/{user_id}.json \
  -d '{"user": {"suspended": true}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

# Uploading a local file to user
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/{user_id}.json \
  -F "user[photo][uploaded_data]=@/path/to/profile/image.jpg" \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token} -X PUT

# Setting a remote image URL:
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/{user_id}.json \
  -d '{"user": {"remote_photo_url": "http://link.to/profile/image.png"}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token} -X PUT

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436"
	method := "PUT"
	payload := strings.NewReader(`{
  "user": {
    "name": "Roger Wilco II"
  }
}`)
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436")
		.newBuilder();
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
{
  \"user\": {
    \"name\": \"Roger Wilco II\"
  }
}""");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("PUT", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');
var data = JSON.stringify({
  "user": {
    "name": "Roger Wilco II"
  }
});

var config = {
  method: 'PUT',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  data : data,
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
import json
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436"

payload = json.loads("""{
  "user": {
    "name": "Roger Wilco II"
  }
}""")
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"PUT",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers,
	json=payload
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436")
request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.body = %q({
  "user": {
    "name": "Roger Wilco II"
  }
})
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "user": {
    "id": 9873843,
    "name": "Roger Wilco II"
  }
}

Update Many Users

• PUT /api/v2/users/update_many
• PUT /api/v2/users/update_many?ids={ids}
• PUT /api/v2/users/update_many?external_ids={external_ids}

Bulk or batch updates up to 100 users.

Bulk update

To make the same change to multiple users, use the following endpoint and data format:

https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/update_many.json?ids=1,2,3

{
  "user": {
    "organization_id": 1
  }
}

Batch update

To make different changes to multiple users, use the following endpoint and data format:

https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/update_many.json

{
  "users": [
    { "id": 10071, "name": "New Name", "organization_id": 1 },
    { "id": 12307, "verified": true }
  ]
}

Allowed For

• Agents, with restrictions

Agents can only update end users. Administrators can update end users, agents, and administrators.

Response

This endpoint returns a job_status JSON object and queues a background job to do the work. Use the Show Job Status endpoint to check for the job's completion. Only a certain number of jobs can be queued or running at the same time. See Job limit for more information.

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
external_ids	string	Query	false	External Id of the users to update. Comma separated
ids	string	Query	false	Id of the users to update. Comma separated

Example body

{
  "user": {
    "organization_id": 1
  }
}

Code Samples

cURL

# Bulk update
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/update_many.json?ids=1,2,3 \
  -d '{"user": {"organization_id": 1}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

# Batch update
curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/update_many.json \
  -d '{"users": [{"id": 10071, "name": "New Name", "organization_id": 1}, {"external_id": "123", "verified": true}]}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/update_many?external_ids=abc%2Cdef%2Cghi&ids=1%2C2%2C3"
	method := "PUT"
	payload := strings.NewReader(`{
  "user": {
    "organization_id": 1
  }
}`)
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/update_many")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("external_ids", "abc,def,ghi")
		.addQueryParameter("ids", "1,2,3");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
{
  \"user\": {
    \"organization_id\": 1
  }
}""");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("PUT", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');
var data = JSON.stringify({
  "user": {
    "organization_id": 1
  }
});

var config = {
  method: 'PUT',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/update_many',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  params: {
    'external_ids': 'abc%2Cdef%2Cghi',
    'ids': '1%2C2%2C3',
  },
  data : data,
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
import json
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/update_many?external_ids=abc%2Cdef%2Cghi&ids=1%2C2%2C3"

payload = json.loads("""{
  "user": {
    "organization_id": 1
  }
}""")
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"PUT",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers,
	json=payload
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/update_many")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("external_ids": "abc,def,ghi", "ids": "1,2,3")
request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.body = %q({
  "user": {
    "organization_id": 1
  }
})
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "job_status": {
    "id": "82de0b044094f0c67893ac9fe64f1a99",
    "message": "Completed at 2018-03-08 10:07:04 +0000",
    "progress": 2,
    "results": [
      {
        "action": "update",
        "id": 244,
        "status": "Updated",
        "success": true
      },
      {
        "action": "update",
        "id": 245,
        "status": "Updated",
        "success": true
      }
    ],
    "status": "completed",
    "total": 2,
    "url": "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/job_statuses/82de0b0467893ac9fe64f1a99.json"
  }
}

Merge End Users

• PUT /api/v2/users/{user_id}/merge

Merges the end user specified in the path parameter into the existing end user specified in the request body.

Any two end users can be merged with the exception of end users created by sharing agreements.

To be eligible for merging, the user in the path parameter must be a requester on 10,000 or fewer tickets. Otherwise, the merge will be blocked.

Agents, admins, and users with more than 10,000 requested tickets cannot be merged.

For more information about how user data is merged, see Merging a user's duplicate account in Zendesk help.

Allowed For

• Admins or agents with permission to edit end users

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
user_id	integer	Path	true	The id of the user

Example body

{
  "user": {
    "id": 1234
  }
}

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/{user_id}/merge.json \
  -d '{"user": {"id": 1234}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X PUT  \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/merge"
	method := "PUT"
	payload := strings.NewReader(`{
  "user": {
    "id": 1234
  }
}`)
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, payload)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/merge")
		.newBuilder();
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
{
  \"user\": {
    \"id\": 1234
  }
}""");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("PUT", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');
var data = JSON.stringify({
  "user": {
    "id": 1234
  }
});

var config = {
  method: 'PUT',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/merge',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  data : data,
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
import json
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/merge"

payload = json.loads("""{
  "user": {
    "id": 1234
  }
}""")
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"PUT",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers,
	json=payload
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/merge")
request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
request.body = %q({
  "user": {
    "id": 1234
  }
})
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "user": {
    "id": 35436,
    "name": "Johnny Agent"
  }
}

Delete User

• DELETE /api/v2/users/{user_id}

Deletes the user and associated records from the account.

Warning:

• Deleted users are not recoverable.
• Both agents and administrators can soft delete users in the agent interface in Zendesk Support. Agents with permission can delete end users, while administrators can delete all users except the account owner.

To comply with GDPR, a further step is needed. See Permanently Delete User.

Allowed For

• Admins and agents in custom roles with permission to manage end users or team members

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
user_id	integer	Path	true	The id of the user

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/{user_id}.json \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token} \
  -X DELETE

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436"
	method := "DELETE"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436")
		.newBuilder();
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("DELETE", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'DELETE',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"DELETE",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436")
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "user": {
    "active": false,
    "id": 9873843,
    "name": "Roger Wilco II"
  }
}

Bulk Delete Users

• DELETE /api/v2/users/destroy_many

Accepts a comma-separated list of up to 100 user ids.

The request takes an ids or an external_ids query parameter.

Allowed for

• Admins

Response

This endpoint returns a job_status JSON object and queues a background job to do the work. Use the Show Job Status endpoint to check for the job's completion. Only a certain number of jobs can be queued or running at the same time. See Job limit for more information.

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
external_ids	string	Query	false	External Id of the users to delete. Comma separated
ids	string	Query	false	Id of the users to delete. Comma separated

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/destroy_many.json?ids=1,2,3 \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token} -X DELETE

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/destroy_many?external_ids=abc%2Cdef%2Cghi&ids=1%2C2%2C3"
	method := "DELETE"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/destroy_many")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("external_ids", "abc,def,ghi")
		.addQueryParameter("ids", "1,2,3");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("DELETE", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'DELETE',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/destroy_many',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  params: {
    'external_ids': 'abc%2Cdef%2Cghi',
    'ids': '1%2C2%2C3',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/destroy_many?external_ids=abc%2Cdef%2Cghi&ids=1%2C2%2C3"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"DELETE",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/destroy_many")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("external_ids": "abc,def,ghi", "ids": "1,2,3")
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "job_status": {
    "id": "82de0b044094f0c67893ac9fe64f1a99",
    "message": "Completed at 2018-03-08 10:07:04 +0000",
    "progress": 2,
    "results": [
      {
        "action": "delete",
        "id": 244,
        "status": "Deleted",
        "success": true
      },
      {
        "action": "delete",
        "id": 245,
        "status": "Deleted",
        "success": true
      }
    ],
    "status": "completed",
    "total": 2,
    "url": "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/job_statuses/82de0b0467893ac9fe64f1a99.json"
  }
}

Permanently Delete User

• DELETE /api/v2/deleted_users/{deleted_user_id}

Before permanently deleting a user, you must delete the user first. See Delete User.

WARNING: Permanently deleting a user deletes all of their information. This information is not recoverable.

Permanent user deletion rate limit

You can permanently delete 700 users every 10 minutes. The rate limiting mechanism behaves as described in Rates Limits in the API introduction. Zendesk recommends that you obey the Retry-After header values.

Allowed For

• Admins and agents in custom roles with permission to manage end users or team members

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
deleted_user_id	integer	Path	true	The ID of the deleted user

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/{id}.json \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token} \
  -X DELETE

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/35436"
	method := "DELETE"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/35436")
		.newBuilder();
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("DELETE", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'DELETE',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/35436',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/35436"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"DELETE",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/35436")
request = Net::HTTP::Delete.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "deleted_user": {
    "active": false,
    "created_at": "2019-08-26T02:10:24Z",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "id": 189304711533,
    "locale": "en-US",
    "locale_id": 1,
    "name": "David",
    "organization_id": 360000000008,
    "phone": null,
    "photo": null,
    "role": "end-user",
    "shared_phone_number": null,
    "time_zone": "Eastern Time (US & Canada)",
    "updated_at": "2019-08-26T02:10:27Z",
    "url": "https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/189304711533"
  }
}

List Deleted Users

• GET /api/v2/deleted_users

Returns deleted users, including permanently deleted users.

If the results contains permanently deleted users, the users' properties that normally contain personal data, such as email and phone, are null. The name property is "Permanently Deleted User".

Pagination

• Cursor pagination (recommended)
• Offset pagination

See Pagination.

Returns a maximum of 100 records per page.

Allowed For

• Agents

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users.json \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users")
		.newBuilder();
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "deleted_users": [
    {
      "active": false,
      "created_at": "2019-08-26T02:10:24Z",
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "id": 189304711533,
      "locale": "en-US",
      "locale_id": 1,
      "name": "David",
      "organization_id": 12312312,
      "phone": null,
      "photo": null,
      "role": "end-user",
      "shared_phone_number": null,
      "time_zone": "Eastern Time (US & Canada)",
      "updated_at": "2019-08-26T02:10:27Z",
      "url": "https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/189304711533"
    },
    {
      "active": false,
      "created_at": "2019-08-26T02:10:28Z",
      "email": "[email protected]",
      "id": 12204720593,
      "locale": "en-US",
      "locale_id": 1,
      "name": "Linda",
      "organization_id": 123123123,
      "phone": null,
      "photo": null,
      "role": "end-user",
      "shared_phone_number": null,
      "time_zone": "Eastern Time (US & Canada)",
      "updated_at": "2019-08-26T02:10:29Z",
      "url": "https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/12204720593"
    }
  ]
}

Count Deleted Users

• GET /api/v2/deleted_users/count

Returns an approximate count of deleted users, including permanently deleted users. If the count exceeds 100,000, it is updated every 24 hours.

The response includes a refreshed_at property in a count object that contains a timestamp indicating when the count was last updated.

Note: When the count exceeds 100,000, count[refreshed_at] may occasionally be null. This indicates that the count is being updated in the background, and count[value] is limited to 100,000 until the update is complete.

Allowed For

• Agents

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/count.json \
-v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/count"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/count")
		.newBuilder();
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/count',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/count"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/count")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "count": {
    "refreshed_at": "2020-04-06T02:18:17Z",
    "value": 13
  }
}

Show Deleted User

• GET /api/v2/deleted_users/{deleted_user_id}

Returns users that have been deleted but not permanently yet. See Permanently Delete User.

Allowed For:

• Agents

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
deleted_user_id	integer	Path	true	The ID of the deleted user

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/{deleted_user_id}.json \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/35436"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/35436")
		.newBuilder();
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/35436',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/35436"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/35436")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "deleted_user": {
    "active": false,
    "created_at": "2019-08-26T02:10:24Z",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "id": 189304711533,
    "locale": "en-US",
    "locale_id": 1,
    "name": "David",
    "organization_id": 360000000008,
    "phone": null,
    "photo": null,
    "role": "end-user",
    "shared_phone_number": null,
    "time_zone": "Eastern Time (US & Canada)",
    "updated_at": "2019-08-26T02:10:27Z",
    "url": "https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/deleted_users/189304711533"
  }
}

Show Compliance Deletion Statuses

• GET /api/v2/users/{user_id}/compliance_deletion_statuses

Returns the GDPR status for each user per area of compliance. A Zendesk area of compliance is typically a product like "support/explore" but can be more fine-grained for areas within the product lines.

If the user is not in the account, the request returns a 404 status.

Status: 404
{
  "error":"RecordNotFound",
  "description":"Not found"
}

Allowed For

• Agents, with restrictions

Pagination

• Cursor pagination (recommended)
• Offset pagination

See Pagination.

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
application	string	Query	false	Area of compliance
user_id	integer	Path	true	The id of the user

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/{id}/compliance_deletion_statuses.json?application=chat \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token}

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/compliance_deletion_statuses?application=chat"
	method := "GET"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/compliance_deletion_statuses")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("application", "chat");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("GET", null)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/compliance_deletion_statuses',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  params: {
    'application': 'chat',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/compliance_deletion_statuses?application=chat"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"GET",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/35436/compliance_deletion_statuses")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("application": "chat")
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

200 OK

// Status 200 OK

{
  "compliance_deletion_statuses": [
    {
      "account_subdomain": "accountABC",
      "action": "request_deletion",
      "application": "all",
      "created_at": "2009-07-20T22:55:23Z",
      "executer_id": 2000,
      "user_id": 1
    },
    {
      "account_subdomain": "accountABC",
      "action": "started",
      "application": "support",
      "created_at": "2009-07-20T22:55:29Z",
      "executer_id": null,
      "user_id": 1
    },
    {
      "account_subdomain": "accountABC",
      "action": "complete",
      "application": "support",
      "created_at": "2009-07-20T22:57:02Z",
      "executer_id": null,
      "user_id": 1
    },
    {
      "account_subdomain": "accountABC",
      "action": "started",
      "application": "chat",
      "created_at": "2009-07-21T02:51:18Z",
      "executer_id": null,
      "user_id": 1
    }
  ]
}

Logout many users

• POST /api/v2/users/logout_many

Accepts a comma-separated list of up to 100 user ids.

Allowed For:

• Admins

Parameters

Name	Type	In	Required	Description
ids	string	Query	false	Accepts a comma-separated list of up to 100 user ids.

Code Samples

cURL

curl https://{subdomain}.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/logout_many.json?ids=345678,901234 \
  -v -u {email_address}/token:{api_token} \
  -X POST

Go

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	url := "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/logout_many?ids=1%2C2"
	method := "POST"
	req, err := http.NewRequest(method, url, nil)

	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Basic <auth-value>") // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"

	client := &http.Client {}
	res, err := client.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	defer res.Body.Close()

	body, err := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
	if err != nil {
		fmt.Println(err)
		return
	}
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Java

import com.squareup.okhttp.*;
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
HttpUrl.Builder urlBuilder = HttpUrl.parse("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/logout_many")
		.newBuilder()
		.addQueryParameter("ids", "1,2");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(MediaType.parse("application/json"),
		"""
""");
String userCredentials = "your_email_address" + "/token:" + "your_api_token";
String basicAuth = "Basic " + java.util.Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(userCredentials.getBytes());

Request request = new Request.Builder()
		.url(urlBuilder.build())
		.method("POST", body)
		.addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
		.addHeader("Authorization", basicAuth)
		.build();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

Nodejs

var axios = require('axios');

var config = {
  method: 'POST',
  url: 'https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/logout_many',
  headers: {
	'Content-Type': 'application/json',
	'Authorization': 'Basic <auth-value>', // Base64 encoded "{email_address}/token:{api_token}"
  },
  params: {
    'ids': '1%2C2',
  },
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});

Python

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

url = "https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/logout_many?ids=1%2C2"
headers = {
	"Content-Type": "application/json",
}
email_address = 'your_email_address'
api_token = 'your_api_token'
# Use basic authentication
auth = HTTPBasicAuth(f'{email_address}/token', api_token)

response = requests.request(
	"POST",
	url,
	auth=auth,
	headers=headers
)

print(response.text)

Ruby

require "net/http"
require "base64"
uri = URI("https://example.zendesk.com/api/v2/users/logout_many")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form("ids": "1,2")
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri, "Content-Type": "application/json")
email = "your_email_address"
api_token = "your_api_token"
credentials = "#{email}/token:#{api_token}"
encoded_credentials = Base64.strict_encode64(credentials)
request["Authorization"] = "Basic #{encoded_credentials}"
response = Net::HTTP.start uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true do |http|
	http.request(request)
end

Example response(s)

202 Accepted

// Status 202 Accepted

null