User Profile

Hacker News

Retrieve one public Hacker News username with karma, plain-text bio and canonical profile link.

Capability: Hacker News research
Current price: $0.0050/request
Availability: Ready to run

What this API does

Retrieve an exact public Hacker News username with current karma, a bounded plain-text version of the public about field and the canonical profile link. It returns only fields already public on Hacker News and does not infer identity, contact details, activity history or private information.

Agents select this operation with tool ID hacker-news.user-profile, then check its current inputs and price before a run.

Inputs and outputs

Input

usernamestring · required

Value supplied for username.

minLength: 1 · maxLength: 64

Output

captured_atstring

Returned captured at value.

userobject

Returned user value.

Example request and output

Inspect returns this reviewed example, its estimated cost and the current input schema. Run calculates the estimate for your actual input.

Request

{
  "tool_id": "hacker-news.user-profile",
  "input": {
    "username": "pg"
  }
}

Output

{
  "user": {
    "about": "Bug fixer.",
    "karma": 157316,
    "username": "pg",
    "source_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg"
  },
  "captured_at": "2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Errors and limitations

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