> **For coding agents and LLMs:** This is one page from the Social Fetch docs (markdown export). For curated orientation and workflow guidance, start with [`/llms.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.txt); for agent onboarding and crawl rules, use [`/agents.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/agents.txt); for the full endpoint list with links to pages like this one, use [`/llms-endpoints.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-endpoints.txt); for one platform's parameters and curls, use [`/llms-{platform}.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-tiktok.txt); use [`/llms.json`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.json) when you need structured JSON for tool registration.

## This page

- **On-site (HTML):** <https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/stack-overflow/users/search/get>
- **Markdown (.mdx) URL:** <https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/stack-overflow/users/search/get.mdx>

## API base URL and authentication

- **API origin (from OpenAPI `servers`):** `https://api.socialfetch.dev`
- **Authentication:** send `x-api-key: sfk_...` on `/v1/**` and `/v2/**` routes unless the operation is explicitly anonymous (check OpenAPI `security`, the [API reference hub](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api.mdx), [`/llms.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.txt), or [`/llms.json`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.json) for each route).
- **OpenAPI JSON:** <https://www.socialfetch.dev/openapi.json>

## Recommended docs entrypoints (this site)

- [Documentation overview](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs.mdx) — top-level orientation (markdown).
- [Quickstart](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/quickstart.mdx) — authenticate with `x-api-key`, validate auth with `whoami`, and understand the JSON envelope.
- [SDK](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/sdk.mdx) — official TypeScript SDK guide, including `SocialFetchClient`, `Result`, and `unwrap()`.
- [Capability matrix](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/capability-matrix.mdx) — every operation with identifiers, pagination, outcomes, media download, credits, and its SDK method. Generated from OpenAPI, so use it for route selection instead of scanning individual pages.
- [Recipes](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/recipes.mdx) — copyable workflows (brand monitoring, transcripts, Ad Library, creator scoring, Reddit research) with credit callouts and SDK examples.
- [Integrations](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations.mdx) — MCP for AI clients, n8n verified node, Apify Store Actors, Make custom app, SDK, and REST API connection paths.
- [MCP product page](https://www.socialfetch.dev/mcp) — hosted MCP overview, OAuth, Skills install.
- [MCP integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/mcp.mdx) — hosted `/mcp` server, OAuth, Cursor/VS Code/Claude install snippets, 910 endpoint tools, plus docs_search/docs_read for implementation help.
- [n8n integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/n8n.mdx) — install `n8n-nodes-socialfetch`, credentials, and workflow examples.
- [Apify integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/apify.mdx) — Store Actors under @social-fetch, PPE billing, dataset export, and quick start.
- [Make integration](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/integrations/make.mdx) — custom app modules for Make scenarios, API key credentials, and module catalog.
- [`/llms-endpoints.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-endpoints.txt) — every documented operation with a direct link to that route's agent-readable markdown page (prefer this over parsing OpenAPI).
- [`/llms-{platform}.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms-tiktok.txt) — per-platform endpoint files generated from OpenAPI (parameters, credits, curls).
- [`/agents.txt`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/agents.txt) — agent crawl/onboarding file with capabilities, auth rules, and allowlist.
- [`/llms.json`](https://www.socialfetch.dev/llms.json) — structured machine-readable operation inventory with parameter names, pagination, outcomes, credits, and SDK mapping.
- [API reference hub](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api.mdx) — human-friendly index of operations with links into generated pages.
- [Errors](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/errors.mdx) — shared error envelope and HTTP status guidance.
- [Credits](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/credits.mdx) — metering, `402`, and planning batch jobs.
- Outcome semantics such as `found`, `not_found`, and `private` are documented in [Errors](https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/errors.mdx) and on operation pages when present in the OpenAPI contract.

## Markdown docs convention

- Every docs page has a markdown twin: append **`.mdx`** to the docs pathname (for example `/docs/quickstart` → `/docs/quickstart.mdx`).
- Agents that send `Accept: text/markdown` on `/docs/**` HTML URLs may receive markdown directly (same URL, `Vary: Accept`).
- Published blog posts use the same convention: `/blog/{slug}` → `/blog/{slug}.mdx`, or `Accept: text/markdown` on the HTML URL (`Vary: Accept`).

---
# Search Stack Overflow users (https://www.socialfetch.dev/docs/api/v1/stack-overflow/users/search/get)

## Summary

Search Stack Overflow users by name, reputation or when they joined.

**Tags:** `Stack Overflow`

## HTTP

- **Method:** GET
- **Path:** `/v1/stack-overflow/users/search`
- **Base URL:** `https://api.socialfetch.dev`

## Capability summary

- **SDK mapping:** `client.stackOverflow.searchUsers({ name: "skeet" })`
- **Pagination:** cursor via `cursor`, next cursor: `data.page.nextCursor`, has more: `data.page.hasMore`

## Credits

- **Base:** 1 credit per successful lookup.
- **Maximum on success (200):** 1 credit.
- **Failed requests (`lookup_failed`, `503`):** not charged.
- **Authoritative field:** `meta.creditsCharged`.

## Authentication

- **`x-api-key`**: API key (`sfk_...`)

## Parameters

### `site` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`
- **Description:** Stack Exchange site, by its API name (`askubuntu`, `serverfault`, `math`, `ru.stackoverflow`). Default: `stackoverflow`. The sites endpoint lists them all.

### `name` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; minLength: 1; maxLength: 100
- **Description:** Part of the display name to look for (not case sensitive).

### `sort` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; enum: reputation, creation, name, modified
- **Description:** Order: `reputation` (default), `creation` (the only one that pages without a ceiling), `name` or `modified`. Ties can repeat or skip rows.

### `order` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; enum: desc, asc
- **Description:** Direction of the sort: `desc` (default) or `asc`.

### `joinedAfter` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`
- **Description:** Only users who joined at or after this time, as an ISO 8601 date or time (such as `2026-01-31`) or epoch seconds. A time with no zone is UTC.

### `joinedBefore` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`
- **Description:** Only users who joined before this time, as an ISO 8601 date or time (such as `2026-01-31`) or epoch seconds. A time with no zone is UTC.

### `reputationMin` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `integer`; minimum: 0; maximum: 1000000000
- **Description:** Only users with at least this reputation. Needs `sort` of `reputation`.

### `reputationMax` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `integer`; minimum: 0; maximum: 1000000000
- **Description:** Only users with at most this reputation. Needs `sort` of `reputation`.

### `include` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `array`
- **Description:** `about` adds each user's profile text. Default: none.

### `limit` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `integer`; minimum: 1; maximum: 100
- **Description:** Up to this many rows per page, 1 to 100. Default: 30. A page can hold fewer than `limit` rows where rows share a creation second or a block of 100 rows ends. Follow `page.nextCursor` until `hasMore` is false.

### `cursor` (query)

- **Required:** no
- **Constraints:** type `string`; minLength: 1; maxLength: 1024
- **Description:** Cursor from `page.nextCursor` of the previous response. It only works with the same filters.

## Pagination

This endpoint uses **cursor-based pagination** via the `cursor` query parameter.

- Read **hasMore** from `data.page.hasMore`.
- When that value is `true`, read **nextCursor** from `data.page.nextCursor` and pass it as the `cursor` query parameter on the **next** request (URL-encode when building a query string).
- Omit `cursor` on the **first** request.
- Stop when **hasMore** is `false` or **nextCursor** is null (end of list).

## Responses (status codes)

- **200**: User listing.
- **400**: Invalid request
- **401**: Missing or invalid API key
- **402**: Insufficient credits
- **500**: Unexpected or billing error
- **502**: Lookup could not be completed.
- **503**: Service temporarily unavailable; safe to retry with backoff.

## Response body (200)

User listing.

### Field outline

- **data** (required) — type `object`. Endpoint-specific response payload.
  - **site** (required) — type `string`. The site that was searched.
  - **users** (required) — type `array`. The users on this page.
    - _items:_
      - **id** (required) — type `integer`. User id on this site.
      - **accountId** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Network-wide account id.
      - **name** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Display name.
      - **url** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Profile URL.
      - **imageUrl** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Avatar URL.
      - **type** (required) — type `string`; enum: registered, moderator, unregistered, does_not_exist, team_admin, null; nullable. Kind of account.
      - **reputation** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Reputation on this site.
      - **reputationChange** (required) — type `object`. Reputation gained over recent periods.
      - **badges** (required) — type `object`. Badge counts.
      - **acceptRate** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Accept rate in percent; null when not shown.
      - **location** (required) — type `string`; nullable. The location the user chose to show; null when empty.
      - **websiteUrl** (required) — type `string`; nullable. The website the user chose to show; null when empty.
      - **aboutHtml** (required) — type `string`; nullable. The profile text the user wrote, as HTML; null when empty or not asked for.
      - **joinedAt** (required) — type `string`; nullable. When the account joined this site, ISO 8601 UTC.
      - **lastSeenAt** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Last visit, ISO 8601 UTC.
      - **lastModifiedAt** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Last change to the profile, ISO 8601 UTC; null when not shown.
      - **questionCount** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Questions asked.
      - **answerCount** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Answers given.
      - **profileViews** (required) — type `integer`; nullable. Profile views.
      - **votesCast** (required) — type `object`. Votes the user has cast.
      - **isEmployee** (required) — type `boolean`; nullable. Whether the user works for Stack Exchange.
      - **collectives** (required) — type `array`. Collectives the user belongs to.
        - _items:_
  - **page** (required) — type `object`. Pagination state for the current page.
    - **hasMore** (required) — type `boolean`. Whether another page is available.
    - **nextCursor** (required) — type `string`; nullable. Cursor for the next page; null on the last page.
  - **limitReached** (required) — type `boolean`. True when the list stopped at the site's 25-page ceiling (2,500 rows, or 625 when the page carries text), or when a user's answer or comment list is too large for page-offset paging and has served its first 100 rows (25 when it carries text). Sort by `creation` to page deeper. False for every list that ends because it ran out.
- **meta** (required) — type `object`. Metadata describing the request and billing outcome.
  - **requestId** (required) — type `string`; minLength: 1. Unique request identifier for tracing this API call.
  - **creditsCharged** (required) — type `integer`; minimum: 0. Credits charged for this request.
  - **version** (required) — type `string`; enum: v1. Public API version that served the response.

### Example JSON (found)

```json
{
  "data": {
    "site": "stackoverflow",
    "users": [
      {
        "id": 22656,
        "accountId": 11683,
        "name": "Jon Skeet",
        "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet",
        "imageUrl": "https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/6d8ebb117e8d83d74ea95fbdd0f87e13?s=256&d=identicon&r=PG",
        "type": "registered",
        "reputation": 1530453,
        "reputationChange": {
          "day": 0,
          "week": 355,
          "month": 543,
          "quarter": 543,
          "year": 8609
        },
        "badges": {
          "gold": 895,
          "silver": 9325,
          "bronze": 9364
        },
        "acceptRate": 86,
        "location": "Reading, United Kingdom",
        "websiteUrl": "http://csharpindepth.com",
        "aboutHtml": null,
        "joinedAt": "2008-09-26T12:05:05.000Z",
        "lastSeenAt": "2026-11-06T22:10:17.000Z",
        "lastModifiedAt": "2026-10-02T17:10:06.000Z",
        "questionCount": 56,
        "answerCount": 35806,
        "profileViews": 2378119,
        "votesCast": {
          "up": 17430,
          "down": 8975
        },
        "isEmployee": false,
        "collectives": [
          {
            "slug": "google-cloud",
            "name": "Google Cloud",
            "url": "https://stackoverflow.com/collectives/google-cloud",
            "description": "A collective for developers who utilize Google Cloud’s infrastructure and platform capabilities. This collective is organized and managed by the Stack Overflow community.",
            "tags": [
              "google-cloud-memorystore"
            ],
            "role": "member"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "page": {
      "hasMore": true,
      "nextCursor": "eyJrIjowLCJwIjoxLCJ6IjoxMDAsIm8iOjIsInciOjEwMCwiZiI6IjEyZmJjZGU5NDc5MGQ0NDUifQ"
    },
    "limitReached": false
  },
  "meta": {
    "requestId": "req_6f8fae36-f170-4333-8230-dbef1488ca49",
    "creditsCharged": 1,
    "version": "v1"
  }
}
```

### Machine-readable error codes

When an error JSON body is returned, it may include one of these `error.code` values (derived from the OpenAPI schemas for this operation; additional codes may exist at runtime):

- `bad_request`

## Error handling & retries

Interpret HTTP status codes using the descriptions below. Do not assume a JSON body unless the OpenAPI schema defines one for that status.

- **400**: Invalid request **Retry:** Fix the request; retrying the same invalid payload will not help.
- **401**: Missing or invalid API key **Retry:** Fix the API key first; retrying without changes will not help.
- **402**: Insufficient credits **Retry:** Do not retry without resolving billing/credits (retrying the same request will not help).
- **500**: Unexpected or billing error
- **502**: Lookup could not be completed. **Retry:** May be transient; a few retries with backoff are reasonable.
- **503**: Service temporarily unavailable; safe to retry with backoff. **Retry:** Usually safe to retry with exponential backoff and jitter.

### Suggested client defaults

- Send the API key using the `x-api-key` header on every request.
- On `503` (and sometimes `502`), retry with backoff; cap retries and surface a clear error to the user.
- On `402`, surface an actionable billing message rather than blind retries.

## Examples

### TypeScript SDK

```typescript
import { SocialFetchClient } from "@socialfetch/sdk";

const client = new SocialFetchClient({
  apiKey: process.env.SOCIALFETCH_API_KEY!,
});

const result = await client.stackOverflow.searchUsers({
  name: "skeet",
});

if (!result.ok) {
  console.error(result.error);
} else {
  console.log(result.value.data);
}
```

### Node.js

```javascript
const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/stack-overflow/users/search?name=skeet",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
```

### cURL

```bash
curl "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/stack-overflow/users/search?name=skeet" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
```

### Python

```python
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/stack-overflow/users/search?name=skeet",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
)
data = response.json()
print(data)
```

### Example: next page (pagination)

After a successful response, if pagination is not finished, request the next page using `cursor` (URL-encode when composing the query string):

```javascript
const previous = await response.json();
const nextCursor = previous?.data?.page?.nextCursor;
const hasMore = previous?.data?.page?.hasMore;
if (!hasMore || nextCursor == null) {
  // no more pages
} else {
  const nextUrl = new URL("https://api.socialfetch.dev/v1/stack-overflow/users/search");
  nextUrl.searchParams.set("cursor", nextCursor);
  // optionally preserve sort: nextUrl.searchParams.set("sortBy", "latest");
  const nextResponse = await fetch(nextUrl.toString(), {
    headers: { "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY" },
  });
  const nextData = await nextResponse.json();
}
```