Export Users using the User Export API
Export users from your project into a CSV or JSON file
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Export users from your project into a CSV or JSON file
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The Export User API offers a means for exporting user data such as user ID, email, phone number, etc from your Authgear project into a or file.
In this guide, you'll learn how to use the User Export API.
The User Export API allows developers to bulk export users into a file.
The export process is asynchronous. That is, the process runs in the background. Hence, you will need to initiate an export task in one endpoint call and then, make an additional call to another endpoint to get the status of the export task.
To make HTTP(S) requests to Export User API endpoints, your application must be authenticated using an in the Bearer Authorization header. The API will return a "403 Forbidden" error if an invalid JWT is used.
The following are the two endpoints for the User Export API:
POST
/_api/admin/users/export
Use this endpoint to create a new user export task.
Headers
Content-Type
application/json
Authorization
Bearer <Admin API JWT Token>
Host
<Your Authgear Project domain>
Body
The Initiate Export endpoint accepts JSON input via an HTTP(S) request body. The following is an example of the input:
The format
field is where you specify the format of the export file. The value can be csv
or ndjson
.
csv
: use this field when format
is set to csv
. The value is an object with a fields
property.
csv.fields
: you can use this field to list all the user attributes you want to include as fields in the CSV file. The value should be an array and each item in the array is an object with a pointer
and an optional field_name
property that describe a user attribute.
GET
/_api/admin/users/export/{Task ID}
Use this endpoint to query the status of an existing export task. Replace {Task ID}
with the task id
returned in the response body of the initiate export endpoint.
Headers
Authorization
Bearer <Admin API JWT Token>
Host
<Your Authgear Project domain>
The following example shows how to use the User Export API in a Node.js application.
First, you need to get the Admin API JWT that will be used to authenticate requests to the endpoints.
To do that, install JsonWebToken (a Node package for generating JWT) by running the following command:
Now, create a generateJWT()
function in your Express app to generate the JWT:
Make an HTTP(S) POST request to the initiate export endpoint to initiate a new user export task.
To do that, first, install the node-fetch package in your app using this command:
Then add the following code to your application:
The response to the HTTP(S) request in this step should look like this:
Response
id
: the value of id is the task ID that can be used in the check status endpoint to query the task and get the download URL for the export file.
In this step, we'll check the status of the export task we initiated by making an HTTP(S) request to the Check Status endpoint (/_api/admin/users/export/{Task ID}
). Replace {Task ID}
in the URL with the task ID for the export task in the previous task.
Add the following route to your app to check the status of an export task using the task ID:
When the status task is completed, the HTTP(S) response body will look like this:
Response
download_url
: open the URL in the value of download_url
to download the exported users file.
Note: The result from a completed export task will expire after 24 hours. Hence, after 24 hours, you can no longer use the task ID associated with the task to generate a new download link.
See the for more details about the endpoints, inputs, and pointers.
See for a more detailed guide on how to get your key ID, and private key and generate Admin API JWT using different programming languages.