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Amplitude Identify API

The Amplitude Identify API allows developers to update user properties for a specific user without needing to send an accompanying event. This is useful for setting or modifying user attributes such as demographics, subscription status, or preferences outside of the normal event tracking flow. The API supports operations like set, unset, append, and prepend on user properties.

Amplitude Identify API is one of 33 APIs that Amplitude publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Analytics, Identity, Properties, and Users. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.

Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://api2.amplitude.com, https://api.eu.amplitude.com.

1 operations 1 paths 5 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
2
Base URL
https://api2.amplitude.com
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Identify 1

User identification and property update operations

POST
/identify
Amplitude Identify a User
identifyUser body → 200400429

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are UserPropertyOperations (7 properties), IdentifyResponse (3 properties), Identification (3 properties), IdentifyRequestBody (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

IdentifyRequestForm
object
2 properties 2 required
IdentifyRequestBody
object
2 properties 2 required
Identification
object
3 properties
IdentifyResponse
object
3 properties
UserPropertyOperations
object
An object containing user property operations. Each key is an operation type and the value is an object of property names to values.
7 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

amplitude-identify-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Amplitude publishes across the network.

Amplitude Batch Event Upload API
Amplitude Group Identify API
Amplitude Export API
Amplitude Attribution API
Amplitude Releases API
Amplitude Session Replay API
Amplitude User Mapping API
Amplitude User Privacy API
Amplitude Webhooks and Cohort Sync
Amplitude Annotations API
Amplitude Cohorts API
Amplitude Data Access API