GitBook Users API

Manage user accounts and profiles.

OpenAPI Specification

gitbook-users-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: GitBook Change Request Content Users API
  description: The GitBook REST API enables you to programmatically manage your GitBook content, organizations, spaces, collections, and integrations. It supports creating, updating, and deleting organizations, spaces, collections, and published docs sites; managing users, teams, and access permissions; importing and exporting content; creating, listing, reviewing, merging, and updating change requests; managing comments; configuring custom hostnames and URLs; and managing integrations and OpenAPI documentation.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: GitBook
    url: https://www.gitbook.com
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://www.gitbook.com/terms
servers:
- url: https://api.gitbook.com/v1
  description: GitBook API v1
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Users
  description: Manage user accounts and profiles.
paths:
  /user:
    get:
      operationId: getCurrentUser
      summary: GitBook Get the authenticated user
      description: Returns the currently authenticated user.
      tags:
      - Users
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The authenticated user.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
  /users/{userId}:
    get:
      operationId: getUserById
      summary: GitBook Get a user by ID
      description: Returns a user by their unique identifier.
      tags:
      - Users
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/userId'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The requested user.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/User'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  parameters:
    userId:
      name: userId
      in: path
      required: true
      description: The unique identifier of the user.
      schema:
        type: string
  schemas:
    User:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: The unique identifier of the user.
        displayName:
          type: string
          description: The display name of the user.
        email:
          type: string
          format: email
          description: The email address of the user.
        photoURL:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: URL to the user's profile photo.
        urls:
          type: object
          properties:
            app:
              type: string
              format: uri
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: integer
              description: The HTTP error code.
            message:
              type: string
              description: A description of the error.
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: The requested resource was not found.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication is required or the token is invalid.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: token
      description: API access token. Generate one from the Developer settings of your GitBook user account.