{"id":98887,"date":"2026-09-16T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/github.blog\/changelog\/2026-09-16-scim-user-responses-now-include-a-profileurl-attribute"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T20:37:31","slug":"scim-user-responses-now-include-a-profileurl-attribute","status":"publish","type":[3522],"link":"https:\/\/github.blog\/changelog\/2026-09-16-scim-user-responses-now-include-a-profileurl-attribute","title":{"rendered":"SCIM user responses now include a profileUrl attribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>SCIM user responses from GitHub now include the standard <code>profileUrl<\/code> attribute defined by RFC 7643, containing the absolute URL of the GitHub account linked to the external identity.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, matching a SCIM record to the corresponding GitHub account required extra lookups or inference. Identity providers and IT teams provisioning access to GitHub through SCIM can now read <code>profileUrl<\/code> directly instead of working around the gap.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>profileUrl<\/code> is returned from the <code>\/Users<\/code> endpoint and is consistently supported across both organization and enterprise SCIM responses.<\/li>\n<li><code>profileUrl<\/code> is omitted when an external identity isn&rsquo;t yet linked to a GitHub user.<\/li>\n<li>The attribute is documented in the SCIM OpenAPI schema and example responses.<\/li>\n<li><code>userName<\/code> and other attributes continue to return the same values as before, so existing SCIM, GraphQL, and identity management integrations aren&rsquo;t affected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is an additive change and no action is required for existing integrations. 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