User object

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A user object contains information about a Slack workspace user.

If you develop for Enterprise Grid, there's a lot to consider about the most important field in a user object: the id or user_id. Learn more about global IDs and migration.

Example

"user": {
    "id": "U123ABC456",
    "team_id": "T123ABC456",
    "name": "sherlock",
    "deleted": false,
    "color": "99a949",
    "real_name": "Sherlock Holmes",
    "tz": "Europe/London",
    "tz_label": "Greenwich Mean Time",
    "tz_offset": 0,
    "profile": {
        "title": "Senior Detective",
        "phone": "(000) 000-0000",
        "skype": "",
        "real_name": "Sherlock Holmes",
        "real_name_normalized": "Sherlock Holmes",
        "display_name": "sherlock",
        "display_name_normalized": "sherlock",
        "fields": {
            "Xf111AAA111": {
                "value": "1 dog: Sherlock Bones",
                "alt": ""
            },
            "Xf222BBB222": {
                "value": "no tree nuts!",
                "alt": ""
            }
        },
        "status_text": "elementary, my dear watson ",
        "status_emoji": ":thinking-face:",
        "status_emoji_display_info": [
            {
                "emoji_name": "thinking-face",
                "display_url": "https://emoji.slack-edge.com/T123ABC456/thinking-face/123...abc.png"
            }
        ],
        "status_expiration": 0,
        "avatar_hash": "b187f5128ba4",
        "start_date": "2015-12-25",
        "image_original": "https://avatars.slack-edge.com/2021-10-21/..._...__original.jpg",
        "is_custom_image": true,
        "email": "sholmes@example.com",
        "pronouns": "they/them",
        "huddle_state": "default_unset",
        "huddle_state_expiration_ts": 0,
        "first_name": "Sherlock",
        "last_name": "Holmes",
        "image_24": "https://avatars.slack-edge.com/2021-10-21/..._...__24.jpg",
        "image_32": "https://avatars.slack-edge.com/2021-10-21/..._...__32.jpg",
        "image_48": "https://avatars.slack-edge.com/2021-10-21/..._...__48.jpg",
        "image_72": "https://avatars.slack-edge.com/2021-10-21/..._...__72.jpg",
        "image_192": "https://avatars.slack-edge.com/2021-10-21/..._...__192.jpg",
        "image_512": "https://avatars.slack-edge.com/2021-10-21/..._...__512.jpg",
        "image_1024": "https://avatars.slack-edge.com/2021-10-21/..._...__1024.jpg",
        "status_text_canonical": "",
        "team": "T0123ABC456"
    },
    "is_admin": false,
    "is_owner": false,
    "is_primary_owner": false,
    "is_restricted": false,
    "is_ultra_restricted": false,
    "is_bot": false,
    "is_app_user": false,
    "updated": 1675264590,
    "is_email_confirmed": true,
    "who_can_share_contact_card": "EVERYONE",
    "enterprise_user": {
        "id": "U123ABC456",
        "enterprise_id": "E123ABC456",
        "enterprise_name": "Sherlock Holmes Detective Agency",
        "is_admin": false,
        "is_owner": false,
        "is_primary_owner": false,
        "teams": [
            "T123ABC456",
            "T789DEF000"
        ]
    }
}

Common fields

The composition of user objects can vary greatly depending on the API being used, or the context of each Slack workspace. Data that has not been supplied may not be present at all, may be null, or may contain an empty string. One example where the profile information varies is getting data for a user connected through Slack Connect; an example of that type of user object can be found in the External members section of the Slack Connect page.

Therefore, consider the following a non-exhaustive list of potential user object fields you might encounter.

Field	Type	Description
`always_active`	Boolean	Indicates that a bot user is set to be constantly active in presence status.
`color`	String	Used in some clients to display a special username color.
`deleted`	Boolean	This user has been deactivated when the value of this field is `true`. Otherwise the value is `false`, or the field may not appear at all.
`enterprise_user`	Object	An object containing info related to an Enterprise Grid user. See our Enterprise grid documentation for more detail.
`enterprise_user.enterprise_id`	String	A unique ID for the Enterprise Grid organization this user belongs to.
`enterprise_user.enterprise_name`	String	A display name for the Enterprise Grid organization.
`enterprise_user.id`	String	This user's ID - some Grid users have a kind of dual identity — a local, workspace-centric user ID as well as a Grid-wise user ID, called the Enterprise user ID. In most cases these IDs can be used interchangeably, but when it is provided, we strongly recommend using this Enterprise user `id` over the root level user `id` field.
`enterprise_user.is_admin`	Boolean	Indicates whether the user is an Admin of the Enterprise Grid organization.
`enterprise_user.is_owner`	Boolean	Indicates whether the user is an Owner of the Enterprise Grid organization.
`enterprise_user.teams`	String[]	An array of workspace IDs that are in the Enterprise Grid organization.
`has_2fa`	Boolean	Describes whether two-factor authentication is enabled for this user. Only visible if the user executing the call is an admin.
`id`	String	Identifier for this workspace user. It is unique to the workspace containing the user. Use this field together with `team_id` as a unique key when storing related data or when specifying the user in API requests. We recommend considering the format of the string to be an opaque value, and not to rely on a particular structure.
`is_admin`	Boolean	Indicates whether the user is an Admin of the current workspace.
`is_app_user`	Boolean	Indicates whether the user is an authorized user of the calling app.
`is_bot`	Boolean	Indicates whether the user is actually a bot user. Bleep bloop. Note that Slackbot is special, so `is_bot` will be false for it.
`is_invited_user`	Boolean	Only present (and always `true`) when a user has been invited but has not yet signed in. Once the user signs in, this field is no longer present.
`is_owner`	Boolean	Indicates whether the user is an Owner of the current workspace.
`is_primary_owner`	Boolean	Indicates whether the user is the Primary Owner of the current workspace.
`is_restricted`	Boolean	Indicates whether or not the user is a guest user. Use in combination with the `is_ultra_restricted` field to check if the user is a single-channel guest user.
`is_stranger`	Boolean	If `true`, this user belongs to a different workspace than the one associated with your app's token, and isn't in any shared channels visible to your app. If `false` (or this field is not present), the user is either from the same workspace as associated with your app's token, or they are from a different workspace, but are in a shared channel that your app has access to. Read our shared channels docs for more detail.
`is_ultra_restricted`	Boolean	Indicates whether or not the user is a single-channel guest.
`locale`	String	Contains a IETF language code that represents this user's chosen display language for Slack clients. Useful for localizing your apps.
`name`	String	Don't use this. It once indicated the preferred username for a user, but that behavior has fundamentally changed since.
`profile`	Object	The profile object contains the default fields of a user's workspace profile. A user's custom profile fields may be discovered using `users.profile.get`.
`two_factor_type`	Enum (String)	Indicates the type of two-factor authentication in use. Only present if `has_2fa` is `true`. The value will be either `app` or `sms`.
`tz`	String	A human-readable string for the geographic timezone-related region this user has specified in their account.
`tz_label`	String	Describes the commonly used name of the `tz` timezone.
`tz_offset`	Integer	Indicates the number of seconds to offset UTC time by for this user's `tz`. Changes silently if changed due to daylight savings.
`updated`	String	A Unix timestamp indicating when the user object was last updated.

Profile fields

The following fields are the default fields of a user's workspace profile. A user may have additional custom fields, though! Use users.profile.get to view all the user's profile fields.

Field	Type	Description
`avatar_hash`	String
`display_name`	String	The display name the user has chosen to identify themselves by in their workspace profile. Do not use this field as a unique identifier for a user, as it may change at any time. Instead, use `id` and `team_id` in concert.
`display_name_normalized`	String	The `display_name` field, but with any non-Latin characters filtered out.
`email`	String	A valid email address. It cannot have spaces, and it must have an `@` and a domain. It cannot be in use by another member of the same team. Changing a user's email address will send an email to both the old and new addresses, and also post a slackbot to the user informing them of the change. This field can only be changed by admins for users on paid teams.
`fields`	Object	All the custom profile fields for the user.
`first_name`	String	The user's first name. The name `slackbot` cannot be used. Updating `first_name` will update the first name within `real_name`.
`image_*`	String	These various fields will contain `https` URLs that point to square ratio, web-viewable images (GIFs, JPEGs, or PNGs) that represent different sizes of a user's profile picture.
`last_name`	String	The user's last name. The name `slackbot` cannot be used. Updating `last_name` will update the second name within `real_name`.
`phone`	String	The user's phone number, in any format.
`pronouns`	String	The pronouns the user prefers to be addressed by.
`real_name`	String	The user's first and last name. Updating this field will update `first_name` and `last_name`. If only one name is provided, the value of `last_name` will be cleared.
`real_name_normalized`	String	The `real_name` field, but with any non-Latin characters filtered out.
`skype`	String	A shadow from a bygone era. It will always be an empty string and cannot be set otherwise.
`start_date`	String	The date the person joined the organization. Only available if Slack Atlas is enabled.
`status_emoji`	String	The displayed emoji that is enabled for the Slack team, such as `:train:`.
`status_expiration`	Integer	the Unix timestamp of when the status will expire. Providing `0` or omitting this field results in a custom status that will not expire.
`status_text`	String	The displayed text of up to 100 characters. We strongly encourage brevity.
`team`	String	The ID of the team the user is on.
`title`	String	The user's title.

Accessing email addresses

The [users:read.email](/reference/scopes/users.read.email OAuth scope is now required to access the email field in user objects returned by the users.list and users.info web API methods. users:read is no longer a sufficient scope for this data field. Learn more.

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Profile fields​

Example

Common fields

Profile fields