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Myself

Get current user

Returns details for the current user.

Permissions required: Permission to access Jira.

get/rest/api/3/myself

Query parameters

expandstring

Use expand to include additional information about user in the response. This parameter accepts a comma-separated list. Expand options include:

  • groups Returns all groups, including nested groups, the user belongs to.
  • applicationRoles Returns the application roles the user is assigned to.

Response

Returned if the request is successful.

accountIdstring

The account ID of the user, which uniquely identifies the user across all Atlassian products. For example, 5b10ac8d82e05b22cc7d4ef5. Required in requests.

accountType'atlassian' | 'app' | 'customer' | 'unknown'

The user account type. Can take the following values:

  • atlassian regular Atlassian user account
  • app system account used for Connect applications and OAuth to represent external systems
  • customer Jira Service Desk account representing an external service desk
activeboolean

Whether the user is active.

appTypestring

The app type of the user account when accountType is 'app'. Can take the following values:

  • service Service Account
  • agent Rovo Agent Account
  • unknown Unknown app type
displayNamestring

The display name of the user. Depending on the user’s privacy setting, this may return an alternative value.

emailAddressstring

The email address of the user. Depending on the user’s privacy setting, this may be returned as null.

expandstring

Expand options that include additional user details in the response.

guestboolean

Whether the user is a guest.

keystring

This property is no longer available and will be removed from the documentation soon. See the deprecation notice for details.

localestring

The locale of the user. Depending on the user’s privacy setting, this may be returned as null.

namestring

This property is no longer available and will be removed from the documentation soon. See the deprecation notice for details.

selfstring uri

The URL of the user.

timeZonestring

The time zone specified in the user's profile. If the user's time zone is not visible to the current user (due to user's profile setting), or if a time zone has not been set, the instance's default time zone will be returned.

Changes

No recorded changes to this endpoint across all 15 revisions of this API.