Find users to follow via the API

Developers
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I was browsing the API documents to see if there was a way to follow users using a search on name. But nothing jumped out at me.

I would like to implement a similar functionality like that under the current web app → Discover → :mag_right: → type in username that returns a list of users that could match the entered name.

Is that possible with the API?

Thanks!
Loura

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Yes, there’s an API that looks like this:

GET /users/search?q=manton

You’re right that it’s not documented. To be honest, I can’t remember if that was intentional or not. Possibly we wanted to further improve it before making it official. Should be safe to use, though.

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Thanks!