Add API support for looking up a user by username

Needed to support Huboard

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/doc/api/users.md b/doc/api/users.md
index 7ba2db248ff..66d2fd52526 100644
--- a/doc/api/users.md
+++ b/doc/api/users.md
@@ -90,7 +90,17 @@ GET /users
 
 You can search for users by email or username with: `/users?search=John`
 
-Also see `def search query` in `app/models/user.rb`.
+In addition, you can lookup users by username:
+
+```
+GET /users?username=:username
+```
+
+For example:
+
+```
+GET /users?username=jack_smith
+```
 
 ## Single user