Get Account

POST

https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/users/get_account

POST

/2/users/get_account

import requests
url = "https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/users/get_account"
payload = { "account_id": "dbid:AAH4f99T0taONIb-OurWxbNQ6ywGRopQngc" }
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.json())

{
  "account_id": "dbid:AAH4f99T0taONIb-OurWxbNQ6ywGRopQngc",
  "disabled": false,
  "email": "franz@dropbox.com",
  "email_verified": true,
  "is_teammate": false,
  "name": {
    "abbreviated_name": "FF",
    "display_name": "Franz Ferdinand (Personal)",
    "familiar_name": "Franz",
    "given_name": "Franz",
    "surname": "Ferdinand"
  },
  "profile_photo_url": "https://dl-web.dropbox.com/account_photo/get/dbaphid%3AAAHWGmIXV3sUuOmBfTz0wPsiqHUpBWvv3ZA?vers=1556069330102&size=128x128"
}

Get information about a user’s account.

Required scope: sharing.read

Endpoint format: RPC

Authentication: User

Get information about a user's account. **Required scope:** `sharing.read` **Endpoint format:** [RPC](https://docs.dropboxapi.com/dropbox-api/docs/technical-reference/request-response-formats#rpc-endpoints) **Authentication:** [User](https://docs.dropboxapi.com/dropbox-api/docs/auth-types#user-authentication)

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

OAuth 2.0 token issued to a specific user. Use Authorization: Bearer <token>.

Public clients should use the authorization code flow with PKCE (S256).

For background or offline access, send token_access_type=offline during authorization and use the returned refresh token to obtain new access tokens.

You can generate a short-lived access token from the App Console; see Testing with a generated token.

OAuth 2.0 token issued to a specific user. Use `Authorization: Bearer <token>`. Public clients should use the authorization code flow with PKCE (S256). For background or offline access, send `token_access_type=offline` during authorization and use the returned refresh token to obtain new access tokens. You can generate a short-lived access token from the App Console; see [Testing with a generated token](https://docs.dropboxapi.com/dropbox-api/docs/oauth#testing-with-a-generated-token).

Headers

Dropbox-API-Path-RootstringOptional

Scopes path-based operations to a namespace (root). The value is a JSON serialization of the common.PathRoot union: {".tag": "home"}, {".tag": "root", "root": "<namespace_id>"}, or {".tag": "namespace_id", "namespace_id": "<namespace_id>"}. On failure the request returns 422 with a common.PathRootError.

Scopes path-based operations to a namespace (root). The value is a JSON serialization of the `common.PathRoot` union: `{".tag": "home"}`, `{".tag": "root", "root": "<namespace_id>"}`, or `{".tag": "namespace_id", "namespace_id": "<namespace_id>"}`. On failure the request returns 422 with a `common.PathRootError`.

Request

This endpoint expects an object.

account_idstringRequired=40 characters

A user's account identifier.

Response headers

X-Dropbox-Request-IdstringOptional

A unique identifier for the request, useful for debugging and support.

Response

Successful response

account_idstring=40 characters

The user's unique Dropbox ID.

disabledboolean

Whether the user has been disabled.

emailstring

The user’s email address. Do not rely on this without checking the email_verified field. Even then, it’s possible that the user has since lost access to their email.

email_verifiedboolean

Whether the user has verified their email address.

is_teammateboolean

Whether this user is a teammate of the current user. If this account is the current user’s account, then this will be true.

nameobject

Details of a user's name.

profile_photo_urlstring or nullOptional

URL for the photo representing the user, if one is set.

team_member_idstring or nullOptional

The user’s unique team member id. This field will only be present if the user is part of a team and is_teammate is true.

Errors

401

Unauthorized Error

403

Forbidden Error

409

Conflict Error

429

Too Many Requests Error

500

Internal Server Error