Get Information About The Current User With JavaScript - Vanilla Success
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p>Do you want details about a currently signed in user so that you can spawn integrations with third-party libraries? Some examples of this are:</p><ol><li>You want to add a third-party chat application to your page and their provided snippet requires you to supply it with a username and email address.</li><li>You have a third-party analytics application and you want to send the current user's SSO ID to it to link users to your own information in your data warehouse.</li></ol><p>The best way to do this is with the following Javascript:</p><pre class="code codeBlock" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">window.onVanillaReady(function (vanilla) { var user = vanilla.getCurrentUser() }); </pre><p>This will fill the <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">user</code> variable with an object filled with the current user's information. It's important that you put your code in the <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">onVanillaReady</code> event handle to work with deferred script loading.</p><p>The information in this variable comes from the <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">/api/v2/users/me</code> endpoint. </p><ul><li>Check out your Dashboard for more information on the fields there. </li><li>Or, you can always call the endpoint from within your Dashboard to see a live sample.</li></ul> </article> </main>