---
title: "Service: /members/{member}/projects/find [GET]"
source: https://dev.pageseeder.com/api/services/find-projects_get.html
description: "Retrieves projects and groups for a specified member or server. Supports filtering by archive status, name/title prefix, and manager role. Includes pagination and returns XML or JSON."
last_updated: 2026-09-08T14:02:17+10:00
document_type: api_endpoint
operation_id: group-GET
resource_id: group
path_template: /members/{member}/projects/find
http_method: GET
api_category: group
implementation_version: 6.2005
api_since: 5.6012
deprecated_since: null
obsolete_since: null
api_support: supported
cache_control: null
generated_at: 2026-09-02
tokens: ~1077
---

# /members/\{member\}/projects/find \[GET\]

## Description

Finds [projects](../../reference/glossary/project.md) and [groups](../../reference/glossary/group.md) for the specified member or the whole server.

When listing groups for a user, they must have a membership status of `normal` to the group or a subgroup. Archived groups are not included by default.

> **Note:** Without any parameters, this service returns all the projects and groups that the user is a member of, but does not include the membership information such as the roles, status and details. You can use the [/members/\{member\}/memberships](list-member-memberships_get.md) service to include the membership information.

## Parameters

| Name | Description | Required | Type | Default value |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| archived | Whether to return archived projects/groups only (otherwise they are not included) | no | boolean | `false` |
| for | If 'server', return all projects/groups for server (Administrator only); If 'manager', return only projects/groups member is a manager of (`server\|manager\|member`) | no | string | `member` |
| nameprefix | Prefix that project/group’s full name can have to be returned | no | string |  |
| titleprefix | Prefix that project/group’s title can have to be returned | no | string |  |
| page | The page to load | no | integer | `1` |
| pagesize | The number of results per page | no | integer | `1000` |

### archived

By default, this service only returns groups and projects which are not archived.

Use `archived=true` to only list archived groups and projects.

### for

This service returns the groups that the specified member is register to.

You can use `for=manager` to only return groups and projects where the member has a manager role.

If you are an administrator, you can also use `for=server` to return all the projects and groups for the server.


Since the server option can return many results, you can reduce the number of results using the `nameprefix` and `titleprefix` parameters. Consider using paging with the `page` and `pagesize` parameters also.


### nameprefix

Use this parameter to only return the projects and groups with full name matching the specified prefix. The prefix matching is not case sensitive. If `titleprefix` is also specified, projects and groups matching that will also be returned.

> **Note:** The prefix matches the full name of the group only, so it must include the projects and subprojects names (for example `sample-geo-australia`). Consider using the `titleprefix` as an alternative.

### titleprefix

Use this parameter to only return the projects and groups with title matching the specified prefix. The prefix matching is not case sensitive. If `nameprefix` is also specified, projects and groups matching that will also be returned.

## Permission

Any member can invoke this service for themselves.

Only an administrator can request the project trees for the entire server with `for=server`. or for another member.

## Response

The returned XML is as follows (in alphabetical order on name):

```xml
<projects limitreached="[true]">
  <project id="[id]"
           name="[name]"
           owner="[owner]"
           description="[description]"
           ... />
  <group id="[id]"
         name="[name]"
         description="[description]"
         owner="[owner]"
         ... />
  <project id="[id]"
           name="[name]"
           description="[description]"
           owner="[owner]"
           ... />
  <group id="[id]"
         name="[name]"
         description="[description]"
         owner="[owner]"
         ... />
  <group id="[id]"
         name="[name]"
         description="[description]"
         owner="[owner]"
         ... />
  ...
</projects>
```

Or in JSON:

```json
{
  "limitreached": boolean,
  "projects": [
    {
      "id": number,
      "name": string,
      "type": string,
      "title": string,
      "description": string,
      "owner": string,
      "owner": string,
      "access": string,
      "common": boolean
    }
  ]
}
```

The `limitreached` attribute/property is only specified when there are more results than the page size.

In JSON, use the `type` property to distinguish groups from projects.

## Error Handling

No specific errors expected for this service.