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Read pin
Read pin details given its ID.
curl --request POST \
--url https://{domain}-be.glean.com/rest/api/v1/getpin \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"id": "<string>"
}'{
"pin": {
"queries": [
"<string>"
],
"audienceFilters": [
{
"fieldName": "type",
"values": [
{
"value": "Spreadsheet",
"relationType": "EQUALS"
},
{
"value": "Presentation",
"relationType": "EQUALS"
}
]
}
],
"id": "<string>",
"documentId": "<string>",
"attribution": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"updatedBy": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"createTime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updateTime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}
}Authorizations
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.
Headers
Email address of a user on whose behalf the request is intended to be made (should be non-empty only for global tokens).
Auth type being used to access the endpoint (should be non-empty only for global tokens).
Body
The opaque id of the pin to be fetched.
Response
The document which should be a pinned result.
The opaque id of the pin.
Filters which restrict who should see the pinned document. Values are taken from the corresponding filters in people search.
"owner"
Within a single FacetFilter, the values are to be treated like an OR. For example, fieldName type with values [EQUALS Presentation, EQUALS Spreadsheet] means we want to show a document if it's a Presentation OR a Spreadsheet.
Indicates the value of a facet, if any, that the given facet is grouped under. This is only used for nested facets, for example, fieldName could be owner and groupName would be Spreadsheet if showing all owners for spreadsheets as a nested facet.
"Spreadsheet"
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
How this document relates to the including entity.
ATTACHMENT, CANONICAL, CASE, CONTACT, CONVERSATION_MESSAGES, EXPERT, FROM, HIGHLIGHT, OPPORTUNITY, RECENT, SOURCE, TICKET, TRANSCRIPT, WITH Which entity in the response that this entity relates to. Relevant when there are multiple entities associated with the response (such as merged customers)
The query being suggested (e.g. enforcing the missing term from the original query).
A query term missing from the original query on which this suggestion is based.
Information about the search provider that generated this suggestion.
{
"name": "Google",
"logo": "https://app.glean.com/images/feather/globe.svg",
"searchLinkUrlTemplate": "https://www.google.com/search?q={query}&hl=en"
}
A user-facing description to display for the suggestion.
The datasource associated with the suggestion.
{
"datasourceFilter": "JIRA",
"datasourcesFilter": ["JIRA"],
"queryOverridesFacetFilters": true,
"facetFilters": [
{
"fieldName": "fieldName",
"values": ["fieldValues", "fieldValues"]
},
{
"fieldName": "fieldName",
"values": ["fieldValues", "fieldValues"]
}
]
}
The bolded ranges within the query of the QuerySuggestion.
A subsection of a given string to which some special formatting should be applied.
{ "hasCopyPaste": true }
{
"query": "app:github type:pull author:mortimer",
"label": "Mortimer's PRs",
"datasource": "github"
}
A truncated list of documents with this relation. TO BE DEPRECATED.
The Glean Document ID.
The app or other repository type from which the document was extracted
The source from which document content was pulled, e.g. an API crawl or browser history
API_CRAWL, BROWSER_CRAWL, BROWSER_HISTORY, BUILTIN, FEDERATED_SEARCH, PUSH_API, WEB_CRAWL, NATIVE_HISTORY The datasource-specific type of the document (e.g. for Jira issues, this is the issue type such as Bug or Feature Request).
The title of the document.
A permalink for the document.
{
"container": "container",
"parentId": "JIRA_EN-1337",
"createTime": "2000-01-23T04:56:07.000Z",
"datasource": "datasource",
"author": { "name": "name" },
"documentId": "documentId",
"updateTime": "2000-01-23T04:56:07.000Z",
"mimeType": "mimeType",
"objectType": "Feature Request",
"components": ["Backend", "Networking"],
"status": ["Done"],
"customData": { "someCustomField": "someCustomValue" }
}
A list of content sub-sections in the document, e.g. text blocks with different headings in a Drive doc or Confluence page.
A truncated list of documents associated with this relation. To be used in favor of documents because it contains a trackingToken.
A deep link, if available, into the datasource's native application for the user's platform (e.g. slack://...).
Text content from the result document which contains search query terms, if available.
The full body text of the result if not already contained in the snippets. Only populated for conversation results (e.g. results from a messaging app such as Slack).
The full body text of the result if not already contained in the snippets; each item in the array represents a separate line in the original text. Only populated for conversation results (e.g. results from a messaging app such as Slack).
A list of results related to this search result. Eg. for conversation results it contains individual messages from the conversation document which will be shown on SERP.
A list of results that should be displayed as associated with this result.
A list of results that should be displayed as associated with this result.
The total number of attachments.
A (potentially partial) list of results representing documents attached to the main result document.
A list of results that should be displayed as backlinks of this result in reverse chronological order.
The reason for inclusion of clusteredResults.
SIMILAR, FRESHNESS, TITLE, CONTENT, NONE, THREAD_REPLY, THREAD_ROOT, PREFIX, SUFFIX {
"query": "app:github type:pull author:mortimer",
"label": "Mortimer's PRs",
"datasource": "github"
}
The level of visual distinction that should be given to a result.
HERO, PROMOTED, STANDARD Additional context for the relationship between the result and the document it's attached to.
A list of pins associated with this search result.
An array of entities in the work graph retrieved via a data request.
A single object that can support any object in the work graph. Only a single object will be populated.
An opaque token that represents this particular result in this particular query. To be used for /feedback reporting.
FULL_TIME, CONTRACTOR, NON_EMPLOYEE, FORMER_EMPLOYEE "FULL_TIME"
The first name of the person
The last name of the person
Job title.
Typically the highest level organizational unit; generally applies to bigger companies with multiple distinct businesses.
An organizational unit where everyone has a similar task, e.g. Engineering.
Info about the employee's team(s).
Use id if you index teams via Glean, and use name and externalLink if you want to use your own team pages
Unique identifier
Team name
Link to a team page on the internet or your company's intranet
The team member's relationship to the team. This defaults to MEMBER if not set.
MEMBER, MANAGER, LEAD, POINT_OF_CONTACT, OTHER The team member's start date
The number of people in this person's department.
The user's primary email address
Additional email addresses of this user beyond the primary, if any.
User facing string representing the person's location.
Detailed location with information about country, state, city etc.
Desk number.
Location's timezone, e.g. UTC, PST.
Office address or name.
Name of the city.
State code.
Region information, e.g. NORAM, APAC.
ZIP Code for the address.
Country name.
Alpha-2 or Alpha-3 ISO 3166 country code, e.g. US or USA.
Link to a customer's internal profile page. This is set to '#' when no link is desired.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The chain of reporting in the company as far up as it goes. The last entry is this person's direct manager.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
Phone number as a number string.
The timezone of the person. E.g. "Pacific Daylight Time".
The offset of the person's timezone in seconds from UTC.
The URL of the person's avatar. Public, glean-authenticated and Base64 encoded data URLs are all valid (but not third-party-authenticated URLs).
The original photo URL of the person's avatar before any edits they made are applied
The URL of the person's banner photo.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
The date when the employee started.
If a former employee, the last date of employment.
Short biography or mission statement of the employee.
She/her, He/his or other pronoun.
The total recursive size of the people reporting to this person, or 1
The total number of people who directly report to this person, or 0
The preferred name of the person, or a nickname.
List of social network profiles.
List of profiles this user has in different datasources / tools that they use.
The datasource the profile is of.
"github"
The display name of the entity in the given datasource.
URL to view the entity's profile.
A deep link, if available, into the datasource's native application for the entity's platform (i.e. slack://...).
For internal use only. True iff the data source profile was manually added by a user from within Glean (aka not from the original data source)
List of people and distances to those people from this person. Optionally with metadata.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
Distance to person, refer to PeopleDistance pipeline on interpretation of the value.
Information regarding the invite status of a person.
The time this person signed up in ISO format (ISO 8601).
Latest invites received by the user for each channel
Information regarding the invite status of a person for a particular channel.
The person that invited this person.
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The time this person was invited in ISO format (ISO 8601).
The time this person was reminded in ISO format (ISO 8601) if a reminder was sent.
Whether the user has signed into Glean at least once.
The last time the user has used the Glean extension in ISO 8601 format.
Describes the permissions levels that a user has for permissioned features. When the client sends this, Permissions.read and Permissions.write are the additional permissions granted to a user on top of what they have via their roles. When the server sends this, Permissions.read and Permissions.write are the complete (merged) set of permissions the user has, and Permissions.roles is just for display purposes.
TODO--deprecate in favor of the read and write properties. True if the user has access to /adminsearch
TODO--deprecate in favor of the read and write properties. True if the user can administrate client API tokens with global scope
TODO--deprecate in favor of the read and write properties. True if the user has access to data loss prevention (DLP) features
Describes the read permission levels that a user has for permissioned features. Key must be PermissionedFeatureOrObject
Describes the write permissions levels that a user has for permissioned features. Key must be PermissionedFeatureOrObject
Describes the grant permission levels that a user has for permissioned features. Key must be PermissionedFeatureOrObject
The roleId of the canonical role a user has. The displayName is equal to the roleId.
The roleIds of the roles a user has.
User customizable fields for additional people information.
The logging id of the person used in scrubbed logs, tracking GA metrics.
Percentage of the company that started strictly after this person. Between [0,100).
Intervals of busy time for this person, along with the type of event they're busy with.
A generic, light-weight calendar event.
flag settings to indicate user profile settings for certain items
The badges that a user has earned over their lifetime.
Displays a user's accomplishment or milestone
An auto generated unique identifier.
The badge name displayed to users
Defines how to render an icon
{
"color": "#343CED",
"key": "person_icon",
"iconType": "GLYPH",
"name": "user"
}
The badge should be shown on the PersonAttribution
Whether this person is a "root" node in their organization's hierarchy.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
How this document relates to the including entity.
ATTACHMENT, CANONICAL, CASE, CONTACT, CONVERSATION_MESSAGES, EXPERT, FROM, HIGHLIGHT, OPPORTUNITY, RECENT, SOURCE, TICKET, TRANSCRIPT, WITH Which entity in the response that this entity relates to. Relevant when there are multiple entities associated with the response (such as merged customers)
The query being suggested (e.g. enforcing the missing term from the original query).
A query term missing from the original query on which this suggestion is based.
Information about the search provider that generated this suggestion.
{
"name": "Google",
"logo": "https://app.glean.com/images/feather/globe.svg",
"searchLinkUrlTemplate": "https://www.google.com/search?q={query}&hl=en"
}
A user-facing description to display for the suggestion.
The datasource associated with the suggestion.
{
"datasourceFilter": "JIRA",
"datasourcesFilter": ["JIRA"],
"queryOverridesFacetFilters": true,
"facetFilters": [
{
"fieldName": "fieldName",
"values": ["fieldValues", "fieldValues"]
},
{
"fieldName": "fieldName",
"values": ["fieldValues", "fieldValues"]
}
]
}
The bolded ranges within the query of the QuerySuggestion.
A subsection of a given string to which some special formatting should be applied.
{ "hasCopyPaste": true }
{
"query": "app:github type:pull author:mortimer",
"label": "Mortimer's PRs",
"datasource": "github"
}
A truncated list of documents with this relation. TO BE DEPRECATED.
The Glean Document ID.
The app or other repository type from which the document was extracted
The source from which document content was pulled, e.g. an API crawl or browser history
API_CRAWL, BROWSER_CRAWL, BROWSER_HISTORY, BUILTIN, FEDERATED_SEARCH, PUSH_API, WEB_CRAWL, NATIVE_HISTORY The datasource-specific type of the document (e.g. for Jira issues, this is the issue type such as Bug or Feature Request).
The title of the document.
A permalink for the document.
{
"container": "container",
"parentId": "JIRA_EN-1337",
"createTime": "2000-01-23T04:56:07.000Z",
"datasource": "datasource",
"author": { "name": "name" },
"documentId": "documentId",
"updateTime": "2000-01-23T04:56:07.000Z",
"mimeType": "mimeType",
"objectType": "Feature Request",
"components": ["Backend", "Networking"],
"status": ["Done"],
"customData": { "someCustomField": "someCustomValue" }
}
A list of content sub-sections in the document, e.g. text blocks with different headings in a Drive doc or Confluence page.
A truncated list of documents associated with this relation. To be used in favor of documents because it contains a trackingToken.
A deep link, if available, into the datasource's native application for the user's platform (e.g. slack://...).
Text content from the result document which contains search query terms, if available.
The full body text of the result if not already contained in the snippets. Only populated for conversation results (e.g. results from a messaging app such as Slack).
The full body text of the result if not already contained in the snippets; each item in the array represents a separate line in the original text. Only populated for conversation results (e.g. results from a messaging app such as Slack).
A list of results related to this search result. Eg. for conversation results it contains individual messages from the conversation document which will be shown on SERP.
A list of results that should be displayed as associated with this result.
A list of results that should be displayed as associated with this result.
The total number of attachments.
A (potentially partial) list of results representing documents attached to the main result document.
A list of results that should be displayed as backlinks of this result in reverse chronological order.
The reason for inclusion of clusteredResults.
SIMILAR, FRESHNESS, TITLE, CONTENT, NONE, THREAD_REPLY, THREAD_ROOT, PREFIX, SUFFIX {
"query": "app:github type:pull author:mortimer",
"label": "Mortimer's PRs",
"datasource": "github"
}
The level of visual distinction that should be given to a result.
HERO, PROMOTED, STANDARD Additional context for the relationship between the result and the document it's attached to.
A list of pins associated with this search result.
An array of entities in the work graph retrieved via a data request.
A single object that can support any object in the work graph. Only a single object will be populated.
An opaque token that represents this particular result in this particular query. To be used for /feedback reporting.
FULL_TIME, CONTRACTOR, NON_EMPLOYEE, FORMER_EMPLOYEE "FULL_TIME"
The first name of the person
The last name of the person
Job title.
Typically the highest level organizational unit; generally applies to bigger companies with multiple distinct businesses.
An organizational unit where everyone has a similar task, e.g. Engineering.
Info about the employee's team(s).
Use id if you index teams via Glean, and use name and externalLink if you want to use your own team pages
Unique identifier
Team name
Link to a team page on the internet or your company's intranet
The team member's relationship to the team. This defaults to MEMBER if not set.
MEMBER, MANAGER, LEAD, POINT_OF_CONTACT, OTHER The team member's start date
The number of people in this person's department.
The user's primary email address
Additional email addresses of this user beyond the primary, if any.
User facing string representing the person's location.
Detailed location with information about country, state, city etc.
Desk number.
Location's timezone, e.g. UTC, PST.
Office address or name.
Name of the city.
State code.
Region information, e.g. NORAM, APAC.
ZIP Code for the address.
Country name.
Alpha-2 or Alpha-3 ISO 3166 country code, e.g. US or USA.
Link to a customer's internal profile page. This is set to '#' when no link is desired.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The chain of reporting in the company as far up as it goes. The last entry is this person's direct manager.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
Phone number as a number string.
The timezone of the person. E.g. "Pacific Daylight Time".
The offset of the person's timezone in seconds from UTC.
The URL of the person's avatar. Public, glean-authenticated and Base64 encoded data URLs are all valid (but not third-party-authenticated URLs).
The original photo URL of the person's avatar before any edits they made are applied
The URL of the person's banner photo.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
A list of documents related to this person.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
The date when the employee started.
If a former employee, the last date of employment.
Short biography or mission statement of the employee.
She/her, He/his or other pronoun.
The total recursive size of the people reporting to this person, or 1
The total number of people who directly report to this person, or 0
The preferred name of the person, or a nickname.
List of profiles this user has in different datasources / tools that they use.
The datasource the profile is of.
"github"
The display name of the entity in the given datasource.
URL to view the entity's profile.
A deep link, if available, into the datasource's native application for the entity's platform (i.e. slack://...).
For internal use only. True iff the data source profile was manually added by a user from within Glean (aka not from the original data source)
List of people and distances to those people from this person. Optionally with metadata.
The display name.
An opaque identifier that can be used to request metadata for a Person.
Distance to person, refer to PeopleDistance pipeline on interpretation of the value.
Information regarding the invite status of a person.
The time this person signed up in ISO format (ISO 8601).
Latest invites received by the user for each channel
Information regarding the invite status of a person for a particular channel.
The person that invited this person.
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The time this person was invited in ISO format (ISO 8601).
The time this person was reminded in ISO format (ISO 8601) if a reminder was sent.
Whether the user has signed into Glean at least once.
The last time the user has used the Glean extension in ISO 8601 format.
Describes the permissions levels that a user has for permissioned features. When the client sends this, Permissions.read and Permissions.write are the additional permissions granted to a user on top of what they have via their roles. When the server sends this, Permissions.read and Permissions.write are the complete (merged) set of permissions the user has, and Permissions.roles is just for display purposes.
TODO--deprecate in favor of the read and write properties. True if the user has access to /adminsearch
TODO--deprecate in favor of the read and write properties. True if the user can administrate client API tokens with global scope
TODO--deprecate in favor of the read and write properties. True if the user has access to data loss prevention (DLP) features
Describes the read permission levels that a user has for permissioned features. Key must be PermissionedFeatureOrObject
Describes the write permissions levels that a user has for permissioned features. Key must be PermissionedFeatureOrObject
Describes the grant permission levels that a user has for permissioned features. Key must be PermissionedFeatureOrObject
The roleId of the canonical role a user has. The displayName is equal to the roleId.
The roleIds of the roles a user has.
User customizable fields for additional people information.
The logging id of the person used in scrubbed logs, tracking GA metrics.
Percentage of the company that started strictly after this person. Between [0,100).
Intervals of busy time for this person, along with the type of event they're busy with.
A generic, light-weight calendar event.
flag settings to indicate user profile settings for certain items
The badges that a user has earned over their lifetime.
Displays a user's accomplishment or milestone
An auto generated unique identifier.
The badge name displayed to users
Defines how to render an icon
{
"color": "#343CED",
"key": "person_icon",
"iconType": "GLYPH",
"name": "user"
}
The badge should be shown on the PersonAttribution
Whether this person is a "root" node in their organization's hierarchy.
{
"department": "Movies",
"email": "george@example.com",
"location": "Hollywood, CA",
"phone": 6505551234,
"photoUrl": "https://example.com/george.jpg",
"startDate": "2000-01-23",
"title": "Actor"
}
{
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
}
The query strings for which the pinned result will show.
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curl --request POST \
--url https://{domain}-be.glean.com/rest/api/v1/getpin \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"id": "<string>"
}'{
"pin": {
"queries": [
"<string>"
],
"audienceFilters": [
{
"fieldName": "type",
"values": [
{
"value": "Spreadsheet",
"relationType": "EQUALS"
},
{
"value": "Presentation",
"relationType": "EQUALS"
}
]
}
],
"id": "<string>",
"documentId": "<string>",
"attribution": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"updatedBy": {
"name": "George Clooney",
"obfuscatedId": "abc123"
},
"createTime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updateTime": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}
}