Get Hacker News user profile
Get a Hacker News user profile by username.
Headers
Get your API keyAPI key (`sfk_...`)
Hacker News username (case-sensitive).
min 1 chars · max 255 chars · pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$
Endpoint-specific response payload.
Whether the user was found or not found.
one of: found, not_found
Profile when lookupStatus is `found`; null when `not_found`.
Canonical Hacker News username.
min 1 chars
Account creation time as an ISO-8601 timestamp.
Public karma score when present.
Plain-text about section when present (HTML stripped).
Canonical news.ycombinator.com user URL.
Metadata describing the request and billing outcome.
Unique request identifier for tracing this API call.
min 1 chars
Credits charged for this request.
≥ 0
Public API version that served the response.
one of: v1
True when served from shared response cache. Credits still apply (full endpoint price); Age header may be present.
Code example
curl "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/hackernews/users/tptacek" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"Responses
Hacker News user profile lookup result.