Hi Amplitude Community, 

This month we’re sharing product knowledge share articles from the technical support team at Amplitude! Through these articles, we hope to share some tips and tricks for using Amplitude that we have come to learn ourselves over the past quarter. 
 

How can I get the User IDs for our user deletion requests?

Our User Privacy API (https://www.docs.developers.amplitude.com/analytics/apis/user-privacy-api/) allows you to programmatically submit requests to delete all data for a set of known users. You are able to retrieve a list of deletion jobs scheduled in a time range. However, these deletion requests will only return jobs by Amplitude IDs. 

We recently had a customer who needed to get the User IDs for the users they submitted deletion jobs for. A workaround we came up with is to use the User Search API to run searches for the User ID with the Amplitude IDs the GET deletion jobs return: https://www.docs.developers.amplitude.com/analytics/apis/dashboard-rest-api/#user-search  

We hope this article has been insightful in some ways! We do release FAQs that contain other useful tips and tricks that will help you get the most value out of Amplitude: https://help.amplitude.com/hc/en-us/sections/360013877471-FAQs 

Have you learned anything new about Amplitude recently? Share your favorite learning or hack below!