diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ac4463a..1936172 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [v1.13.2-SNAPSHOT]
+
+- Migrated request to social-service-client [#23679]
+
+
 ## [v1.13.1]
 
 - Aligned code and wiki to the new requirements [#23167]
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f8e3cc4..4625317 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 	<groupId>org.gcube.data-catalogue</groupId>
 	<artifactId>grsf-publisher-ws</artifactId>
-	<version>1.13.1</version>
+	<version>1.13.2-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<packaging>war</packaging>
 	<name>grsf-publisher-ws</name>
 	<description>Utility library to publish GRSF products on GRSF catalogue.</description>
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@
 			<groupId>org.gcube.common</groupId>
 			<artifactId>storagehub-client-library</artifactId>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+ 			<groupId>org.gcube.social-networking</groupId>
+    		<artifactId>social-service-client</artifactId>
+			<version>[1.0.0, 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT)</version>
+		</dependency>
 		<!-- jsoup HTML parser library @ http://jsoup.org/ -->
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/gcube/data_catalogue/grsf_publish_ws/utils/HelperMethods.java b/src/main/java/org/gcube/data_catalogue/grsf_publish_ws/utils/HelperMethods.java
index f1f01ce..c1a400a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/gcube/data_catalogue/grsf_publish_ws/utils/HelperMethods.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/gcube/data_catalogue/grsf_publish_ws/utils/HelperMethods.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import org.gcube.datacatalogue.common.caches.CacheInterface;
 import org.gcube.resources.discovery.client.api.DiscoveryClient;
 import org.gcube.resources.discovery.client.queries.api.Query;
 import org.gcube.resources.discovery.client.queries.impl.QueryBox;
+import org.gcube.social_networking.social_networking_client_library.UserClient;
 import org.jsoup.Jsoup;
 import org.jsoup.safety.Whitelist;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -134,19 +135,16 @@ public abstract class HelperMethods {
 	 * @return
 	 * @throws Exception 
 	 */
-	public static String getUserEmail(String context, String token){
+	public static String getUserEmail(String context, String token) throws Exception{
 
 		// check in cache
 		String result = null;
 		if((result = (String) userEmailCache.get(token)) != null){
 			return result;
 		}else{
-			String baseUrl = new GcoreEndPointReaderSocial(context).getBasePath();
-			String url = baseUrl.endsWith("/") ?  baseUrl + "users/getUserEmail?gcube-token=" + token :
-				baseUrl + "/users/getUserEmail?gcube-token=" + token;
-			logger.debug("Request url is " + url);
-			result = executGETHttpRequest(url, 200);
-			userEmailCache.insert(token, result);
+			UserClient userClient = new UserClient();
+			String email = userClient.getEmail();
+			userEmailCache.insert(token, email);
 		}
 		return result;
 	}
@@ -158,19 +156,16 @@ public abstract class HelperMethods {
 	 * @return
 	 * @throws Exception 
 	 */
-	public static String getUserFullname(String context, String token){
+	public static String getUserFullname(String context, String token) throws Exception{
 
 		// check in cache
 		String result = null;
 		if((result = (String) userFullnameCache.get(token)) != null){
 			return result;
 		}else{
-			String baseUrl = new GcoreEndPointReaderSocial(context).getBasePath();
-			String url = baseUrl.endsWith("/") ?  baseUrl + "users/getUserFullname?gcube-token=" + token :
-				baseUrl + "/users/getUserFullname?gcube-token=" + token;
-			logger.debug("Request url is " + url);
-			result = executGETHttpRequest(url, 200);
-			userFullnameCache.insert(token, result);
+			UserClient userClient = new UserClient();
+			String fuulName = userClient.getFullName();
+			userFullnameCache.insert(token, fuulName);
 		}
 		return result;
 	}