Hacker News

Get a Hacker News profile

Retrieve a public Hacker News user from the official API by case-sensitive username: karma, account creation time, the about text when present, and the count of submitted items. Each successful request costs 1 account credit, including partial results. Failed requests cost 0 credits.

get/v1/hackernews/profile

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.scrapeatlas.com
  • URL: https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/hackernews/profile
  • Auth: API key in header x-api-key

Query parameters

handlestring required

Required case-sensitive Hacker News username: 2–15 letters, digits, underscores or hyphens, as shown after user?id= on news.ycombinator.com.

Response

Inspect the response status and failure or coverage fields.

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Changes

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