1. Greenhouse Support
  2. All Recruiting topics
  3. Users, permissions, and roles
  4. User account management

Find your Greenhouse Recruiting user ID

Permissions: Site Admin, and Job Admin who can add and remove users to their assigned jobs

Product tier: Available for all subscription tiers

Greenhouse Recruiting user IDs allow you to associate data sent within configured integrations.

A user's ID is included in API calls within the "on-behalf-of" header in order to log changes made within the API. This ensures the correct user is credited for the action. 

Note: For more information on using our API, check out our developer resources.

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Find a user ID in Greenhouse Recruiting

Go to Configure > Users, then select a user from the list.

When you reach the Edit User page, copy the user ID from the URL in your browser. 

A user's ID highlighted in the page URL

Example: In the URL https://www.app.greenhouse.io/account/user/12345, the user ID is 12345.

Export user IDs from Greenhouse Recruiting

Go to Configure > Users and click Export to Excel.

Export to Excel link

Open the downloaded file. To find the ID for each of your users, navigate to the User ID column.

Request user IDs with the Harvest API

To get a list of all users and their corresponding user IDs using the Harvest API, you or your development team can send a request to the List Users endpoint.

The user ID will show in the ID field.