# Cloud variable to retrieve user data
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloud-variable-to-retrieve-user-data/3058657
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** help
**Created:** [June 15, 2024, 9:42am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloud-variable-to-retrieve-user-data/3058657 "2024-06-15T09:42:41Z")
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### Author:  [@evanskemboi81514f3sv](https://community.thunkable.com/u/evanskemboi81514f3sv)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 9:42am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloud-variable-to-retrieve-user-data/3058657/1 "2024-06-15T09:42:41Z")
is it possible to enter an Email address for a specific user and retrieve the data associated with the user id, let me say the username for example. if possible I need help with that.
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloud-variable-to-retrieve-user-data/3058657/2 "2024-06-15T15:29:06Z")
Why would you need to do that? Normally, you would access their data from the user id.
If you needed to, you would store the email address when they sign up and associate it with their user id. So something like this in Firebase Realtime Database:
```auto
/users
/[userid]
/emailAddress : "test@test.com"
```
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### Author:  [@evanskemboi81514f3sv](https://community.thunkable.com/u/evanskemboi81514f3sv)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloud-variable-to-retrieve-user-data/3058657/3 "2024-06-15T15:40:12Z")
what if you are trying to get another user’s detail lets use an example like searching on Facebook or telegram and then it returns what they provided let me say there username.
thanks for replying in advance.
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloud-variable-to-retrieve-user-data/3058657/4 "2024-06-15T15:56:18Z")
Then I would set it up as I showed above. The problem is that you’re going to have to give every user access to every other user’s data.
So probably a better way to do this would be to have a separate directory like this:
```auto
/users
/userEmailAddresses [
*userid1* : *emailaddress1*
*userid2* : *emailaddress2*
]
```
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### Author:  [@evanskemboi81514f3sv](https://community.thunkable.com/u/evanskemboi81514f3sv)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 4:00pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloud-variable-to-retrieve-user-data/3058657/5 "2024-06-15T16:00:50Z")
Can you illustrate using blocks
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### Author:  [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 4:14pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloud-variable-to-retrieve-user-data/3058657/6 "2024-06-15T16:14:38Z")
It would be something like this:
I haven’t tested that but that’s the general idea.
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### Author:  [@evanskemboi81514f3sv](https://community.thunkable.com/u/evanskemboi81514f3sv)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloud-variable-to-retrieve-user-data/3058657/7 "2024-06-15T16:17:01Z")
thanks I will try
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2024, 4:17pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloud-variable-to-retrieve-user-data/3058657/8 "2024-09-13T16:17:40Z")
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