diff --git a/jupyterhub/orm.py b/jupyterhub/orm.py
index 8cb5c423..75eb3fbc 100644
--- a/jupyterhub/orm.py
+++ b/jupyterhub/orm.py
@@ -135,6 +135,16 @@ class User(Base):
     id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True, autoincrement=True)
     name = Column(Unicode(255), unique=True)
 
+    # properties on the spawner wrapper
+    # some APIs get these low-level objects
+    # when the spawner isn't running,
+    # for which these should all be False
+    active = running = ready = False
+    pending = None
+    @property
+    def orm_spawner(self):
+        return self
+
     _orm_spawners = relationship(
         "Spawner",
         backref="user",
diff --git a/jupyterhub/spawner.py b/jupyterhub/spawner.py
index 1fa2897e..1436dea6 100644
--- a/jupyterhub/spawner.py
+++ b/jupyterhub/spawner.py
@@ -133,6 +133,10 @@ class Spawner(LoggingConfigurable):
 
     proxy_spec = Unicode()
 
+    @property
+    def last_activity(self):
+        return self.orm_spawner.last_activity
+
     @property
     def server(self):
         if hasattr(self, '_server'):
diff --git a/jupyterhub/user.py b/jupyterhub/user.py
index 6f812103..d3b0560c 100644
--- a/jupyterhub/user.py
+++ b/jupyterhub/user.py
@@ -182,6 +182,26 @@ class User:
                 await self.save_auth_state(auth_state)
         return auth_state
 
+
+    def all_spawners(self, include_default=True):
+        """Generator yielding all my spawners
+
+        including those that are not running.
+
+        Spawners that aren't running will be low-level orm.Spawner objects,
+        while those that are will be higher-level Spawner wrapper objects.
+        """
+
+        for name, orm_spawner in sorted(self.orm_user.orm_spawners.items()):
+            if name == '' and not include_default:
+                continue
+            if name in self.spawners:
+                # yield wrapper if it exists
+                yield self.spawners[name]
+            else:
+                # otherwise, yield low-level object
+                yield orm_spawner
+
     def _new_spawner(self, server_name, spawner_class=None, **kwargs):
         """Create a new spawner"""
         if spawner_class is None:
@@ -321,6 +341,13 @@ class User:
         else:
             return self.base_url
 
+    def server_url(self, server_name=''):
+        """Get the url for a server with a given name"""
+        if not server_name:
+            return self.url
+        else:
+            return url_path_join(self.url, server_name)
+
     def progress_url(self, server_name=''):
         """API URL for progress endpoint for a server with a given name"""
         url_parts = [self.settings['hub'].base_url, 'api/users', self.escaped_name]