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Many of the resources on the users API provide a shortcut for getting information about the currently authenticated user. If a request URL does not include a :user parameter then the response will be for the logged in user (and you must pass authentication information with your request).

GET /users/:user

<%= headers 200 %> <%= json :full_user %>

GET /user

<%= headers 200 %> <%= json :private_user %>

PATCH /user

name : Optional string

email : Optional string - Publicly visible email address.

blog : Optional string

company : Optional string

location : Optional string

hireable : Optional boolean

bio : Optional string

<%= json
:name => "monalisa octocat", :email => "octocat@github.com", :blog => "https://github.com/blog", :company => "GitHub", :location => "San Francisco", :hireable => true, :bio => "There once..." %>

<%= headers 200 %> <%= json :private_user %>