HipChat API to get current user and group

[Nathan Baulch]

Is there a HipChat API that returns the current user and their group? Users of my app integrate with HipChat by providing a personal access token which I'd like to map to their HipChat user and group. Basically I'm looking for something similar to Slack's auth.test endpoint.

Thanks.

[Don Brown [Atlassian] · Accepted solution]

You can get information about your token, including the group id and user, if applicable, by calling https://www.hipchat.com/docs/apiv2/method/get_session

I second the suggestion to write a real integration, however,.

[Samuel Le Berrigaud]

We don't have such an API at the moment. I'm not sure we actually need one.

I'd suggest you don't rely on personal authentication token and make your application an integration . As documented in the authentication section you can as an integration retrieve the access token of a user (doing the OAuth dance etc.).  This way you should have all the information you need and be able to guide your users through each steps...