Viewing the current admin and app

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OAuth only

This feature is only available when using OAuth. This requires the "Read admins" permission.

You can view the name, email and app ID of the current authorised admin via a GET request to https://api.intercom.io/me.

Returns

An Admin model, with an embedded App object.

Attribute	Type	Description
type	string	value is 'admin'
id	string	The id of the admin
name	string	The name of the admin
email	string	The email address of the admin
email_verified	boolean	This field will indicate whether the Intercom user has verified their email or not
app.type	string	value is 'app'
app.id_code	string	The id of the app
app.name	string	The name of the app
app.created_at	timestamp	When the app was created
app.identity_verification	boolean	Whether or not the app uses identity verification

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Single Sign On

If you are building a custom "Log in with Intercom" flow for your site, and you call the /me endpoint to identify the user logging, in you should not accept any sign ins from users with unverified email addresses as it poses a potential impersonation security risk.