topic Re: how to get user ids from meraki in Network Platform API

how to get user ids from meraki

R0g3r — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:28:35 GMT

Hello everyone

We are using meraki wifi with guest user via splash login. I want to delete these users when they are expired.

I used this documentation: https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1

I found this method to delete them:

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!delete-a-user-and-all-of-its-authentication-methods

My problem is I don't know how to get the userid. There is no GET for users as far as I can see.

There is only the method "merakiAuthUsers" where I get an ID, and the ID is just base64 hashed "email,accountType".

TLDR: How can I get the user id to delete it with "deleteOrganizationUser"?

Thank you very much

R0g3r

Re: how to get user ids from meraki

inderdeepsingh1 — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:03:17 GMT

@R0g3r : Are you looking for below To get a list of all existing authorized users
https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!list-the-users-configured-under-meraki-authentication-for-a-network-splash-guest-or-radius-users-for-a-wireless-network-or-client-vpn-users-for-a-wired-network

Also check
https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/networks/<networkID>/merakiAuthUsers/<UserID>

Re: how to get user ids from meraki

R0g3r — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:16:06 GMT

Thank you for your fast response. Unfortunatly, that is not working. As an example I run this command:

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!list-the-users-configured-under-meraki-authentication-for-a-network-splash-guest-or-radius-users-for-a-wireless-network-or-client-vpn-users-for-a-wired-network

with this output:

[
    {
        "id": "aGlAaGkuY29t",
        "email": "miles@meraki.com",
        "name": "Miles Meraki",
        "createdAt": "2018-02-11T00:00:00.090210Z",
        "accountType": "Guest",
        "isAdmin": false,
        "authorizations": [
            {
                "ssidNumber": 1,
                "authorizedZone": "Store WiFi",
                "expiresAt": "2018-03-13T00:00:00.090210Z",
                "authorizedByName": "Miles Meraki",
                "authorizedByEmail": "miles@meraki.com"
            }
        ]
    }
]

Next step is I take this Id and run this:

https://api.meraki.com/api/v1/organizations/<organizationId>/users/aGlAaGkuY29t

Then I receive: "The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found."

Therefore I believe I don't get the correct ID or this is the merakiAuthUserID but no the userId needed for deleteOrganizationUsers.

Kind regards

R0g3r

Re: how to get user ids from meraki

R0g3r — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 13:03:08 GMT

I asked the support and this is not possible at the moment.

With this method you can only delete organizations admin:

https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/#!delete-a-user-and-all-of-its-authentication-methods

Unfortunatly, for meraki auth user there is only a deauthorize method, but no delete method.

Re: how to get user ids from meraki

Pmeza — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:36:47 GMT

are you talking about client ids? like the client ids Meraki assigns to each user?

for example:

client_ids = ['k123456', 'k789abc', 'kabcde1', 'k01abcde']

Re: how to get user ids from meraki

R0g3r — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 06:26:52 GMT

Probably not, but I would try it netherless 🙂

How do I get the client_id for a user?

Re: how to get user ids from meraki

Pmeza — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 13:33:53 GMT

This endpoint:
https://developer.cisco.com/meraki/api-v1/get-network-clients/

will show all unique ids that have used a network during a specific timespan. Once you get the ids, put them in a 'list' and you can use them with other endpoints.

Re: how to get user ids from meraki

R0g3r — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 06:14:38 GMT

This give me the clients, but I need the user. I guess the support is right, there is no way at the moment. Netherless, thank you very much.