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{
  "account_id": "dbid:AAH4f99T0taONIb-OurWxbNQ6ywGRopQngc",
  "account_type": {
    ".tag": "business",
    "business": null
  },
  "disabled": false,
  "email": "franz@dropbox.com",
  "email_verified": true,
  "is_paired": true,
  "locale": "en",
  "name": {
    "abbreviated_name": "FF",
    "display_name": "Franz Ferdinand (Personal)",
    "familiar_name": "Franz",
    "given_name": "Franz",
    "surname": "Ferdinand"
  },
  "referral_link": "https://db.tt/ZITNuhtI",
  "root_info": {
    ".tag": "user",
    "home_namespace_id": "3235641",
    "root_namespace_id": "3235641"
  },
  "country": "US",
  "profile_photo_url": "https://dl-web.dropbox.com/account_photo/get/dbaphid%3AAAHWGmIXV3sUuOmBfTz0wPsiqHUpBWvv3ZA?vers=1556069330102&size=128x128",
  "team": {
    "id": "dbtid:AAFdgehTzw7WlXhZJsbGCLePe8RvQGYDr-I",
    "name": "Acme, Inc.",
    "office_addin_policy": {
      ".tag": "disabled"
    },
    "sharing_policies": {
      "default_link_expiration_days_policy": {
        ".tag": "none"
      },
      "enforce_link_password_policy": {
        ".tag": "optional"
      },
      "group_creation_policy": {
        ".tag": "admins_only"
      },
      "shared_folder_join_policy": {
        ".tag": "from_anyone"
      },
      "shared_folder_link_restriction_policy": {
        ".tag": "anyone"
      },
      "shared_folder_member_policy": {
        ".tag": "team"
      },
      "shared_link_create_policy": {
        ".tag": "team_only"
      },
      "shared_link_default_permissions_policy": {
        ".tag": "default"
      }
    },
    "top_level_content_policy": {
      ".tag": "admin_only"
    }
  },
  "team_member_id": "dbmid:AAHhy7WsR0x-u4ZCqiDl5Fz5zvuL3kmspwU"
}

Get information about the current user’s account.

Required scope: account_info.read

Endpoint format: RPC

Authentication: User, Dropbox-API-Select-Admin (Whole Team)

Get information about the current user's account. **Required scope:** `account_info.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), [Dropbox-API-Select-Admin (Whole Team)](https://docs.dropboxapi.com/dropbox-api/docs/auth-types#admin-authentication-via-dropbox-api-select-admin)

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`.

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.

account_typeobject

What type of account this user has.

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_pairedboolean

Whether the user has a personal and work account. If the current account is personal, then team will always be null, but is_paired will indicate if a work account is linked.

localestring>=2 characters

The language that the user specified. Locale tags will be IETF language tags.

nameobject

Details of a user's name.

referral_linkstring

The user’s referral link.

root_infoobject

The root info for this account.

countrystring or nullOptional=2 characters

The user’s two-letter country code, if available. Country codes are based on ISO 3166-1.

profile_photo_urlstring or nullOptional

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

teamobject or nullOptional

If this account is a member of a team, information about that team.

team_member_idstring or nullOptional

This account’s unique team member id. This field will only be present if team is present.

Errors

401

Unauthorized Error

403

Forbidden Error

409

Conflict Error

429

Too Many Requests Error

500

Internal Server Error