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You can do as the following snippet to get the user object by username (or any other attributes) #!/usr/bin/php <?php define('CLI_SCRIPT', true); require_once('../config.php'); global $DB; $user = $DB->get_record('user', array('username'=>'myusername'));                                                              print_r($user); exit; ?> Reference:   https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Data_manipulation_API