SharePoint REST calls on Users Profile

I have provided some useful REST calls on the SharePoint user profile in this blog post, I hope these calls may help someone. 

Note: Replace "siteurl" with your site url.

For more REST calls on user profiles, check this User profiles REST API reference

Calls Related to User Profile:

1    1. Get people followed by you:

https://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/getpeoplefollowedbyme

2    2. Get people you are following:

 https://siteurl/_api/sp.userprofiles.peoplemanager/getmyfollowers

3    3. To get current user profile properties:

https://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetMyProperties

      4. To get properties of specific user:

https://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetPropertiesFor(accountName=@v)?@v=’i:0%23.f|membership|test@onlinemicrosoft.com’

      5. To get all employees in user profile:

  https://siteurl/_api/search/query?querytext=’*’&rowlimit=1000&selectproperties=’Path,LastName,FirstName,PreferredName,Department,JobTitle,WorkEmail,WorkPhone,PictureUrl,AboutMe,BaseOfficeLocation,Skills,Schools,Responsibilities,AccountName,Interests,Memberships,PastProjects,ProfileViewsLastMonth,ProfileViewsLastWeek’&sourceid=’B09A7990-05EA-4AF9-81EF-EDFAB16C4E31’&trimduplicates=false

      6.  Search employees by department :

 https://siteurl/_api/search/query?querytext=’Department:IT*’&sourceid=’b09a7990-05ea-4af9-81ef-edfab16c4e31’&selectproperties=’LastName,FirstName,WorkEmail,JobTitle,PictureUrl,PreferredName,Department,AccountName’

Example Ajax calls:

GET:

$.ajax({

            url: provideUrlHere,

            method: "GET",

            headers: { "Accept": "application/json; odata=verbose" },

            cache: false,

            async: false,

            success: function (data) {

                //Do some thing with response data

            },

            error: function (data) {

               // Request didn't succeed 

            }

        });

POST

S$.ajax({

            url: provideUrlHere,

            type: "POST",

            contentType: "application/json;odata=verbose",

            data: data,

            headers: {

                "Accept": "application/json;odata=verbose",

                "X-RequestDigest": S$("#__REQUESTDIGEST").val()

            },

           success: function (data) {

                //Do some thing with response data

            },

            error: function (data) {

               // Request didn't succeed 

            }

        });