Users

Users export

This endpoint requires a server-side authentication.

Stream allows you to export users with their data, including the calls they participated in.

await client.exportUsers({ user_ids: ["<user id1>", "<user id1>"] });

Exporting users can take some time, this is how you can check the progress:

// Example of monitoring the status of an async task
// The logic is same for all async tasks
const response = await client.<async operation>();

// you need to poll this endpoint
const taskResponse = await client.getTask({id: response.task_id})

console.log(taskResponse.status === 'completed');

For more informiation, please refer to the async operations guide

Users deletion

This endpoint requires a server-side authentication.

Stream allows you to delete users and optionally the calls they were part of.
Note that this apply only to 1:1 calls, not group calls.

client.deleteUsers({ user_ids: ["<id>"] });

//restore
client.restoreUsers({ user_ids: ["<id>"] });

The delete users endpoints supports the following parameters to control which data needs to be deleted and how. By default users and their data are soft-deleted.

NameTypeDescriptionOptional
userEnum (soft, pruning, hard)- Soft: marks user as deleted and retains all user data.
- Pruning: marks user as deleted and nullifies user information.
- Hard: deletes user completely - this requires hard option for messages and conversation as well.
Yes
conversationsEnum (soft, hard)- Soft: marks all conversation channels as deleted (same effect as Delete Channels with ‘hard’ option disabled).
- Hard: deletes channel and all its data completely including messages (same effect as Delete Channels with ‘hard’ option enabled).
Yes
messagesEnum (soft, pruning, hard)- Soft: marks all user messages as deleted without removing any related message data.
- Pruning: marks all user messages as deleted, nullifies message information and removes some message data such as reactions and flags.
- Hard: deletes messages completely with all related information.
Yes
new_channel_owner_idstringChannels owned by hard-deleted users will be transferred to this userID. If you doesn’t provide a value, the channel owner will have a system generated ID like delete-user-8219f6578a7395gYes
callsEnum (soft, hard)- Soft: marks calls and related data as deleted.
- Hard: deletes calls and related data completely
Note that this applies only to 1:1 calls, not group calls
Yes

Deleting and restoring users in bulk can take some time, this is how you can check the progress:

// Example of monitoring the status of an async task
// The logic is same for all async tasks
const response = await client.<async operation>();

// you need to poll this endpoint
const taskResponse = await client.getTask({id: response.task_id})

console.log(taskResponse.status === 'completed');

For more information, please refer to the async operations guide

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