---
title: "GET /api/v1/x/community-notes/contributors/{alias}"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/x/community-notes/contributors/{alias}"
tags: ["Community Notes"]
---

# GET /api/v1/x/community-notes/contributors/{alias}

`GET /api/v1/x/community-notes/contributors/{alias}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://xquik.com`
- URL: `https://xquik.com/api/v1/x/community-notes/contributors/{alias}`
- Auth: one of:
  - API key in header `x-api-key`
  - HTTP bearer
  - none

Returns 1 Community Notes contributor by the alias X gives them. Includes note counts by rating, rating counts & the deleted notes count. Each lookup costs 1 credit.

## Path parameters

- `alias` string, required

## Query parameters

- `fields` string
- `omit` string

## Response `200`

Contributor profile

- object
  - `contributor` CommunityNotesContributor, required: A Community Notes contributor. X names contributors by an alias, never by their X account. A field X leaves out is left out. Beside a note, X sends its writer with only some of the counts.
    - `alias` string, required: The alias X gives the contributor.
    - `isTopWriter` boolean: Whether X marks the contributor as a top writer.
    - `isApiContributor` boolean: Whether the contributor writes notes through X's API.
    - `deletedNotesCount` integer: Whole number from 0.
    - `notesCount` CommunityNotesNoteCounts: How many notes a contributor wrote, by X's current rating.
      - `awaitingMoreRatings` integer: Whole number from 0.
      - `currentlyRatedHelpful` integer: Whole number from 0.
      - `currentlyRatedNotHelpful` integer: Whole number from 0.
      - `updatedAt` string, date-time: When X last counted the notes.
    - `ratingsCount` CommunityNotesRatingCounts: How a contributor's ratings of other notes went.
      - `awaitingMoreRatings` integer: Whole number from 0.
      - `ratedAfterDecision` integer: Whole number from 0.
      - `successful` CommunityNotesRatingOutcome: A group of a contributor's ratings, by what each one said.
        - `helpfulCount` integer: Whole number from 0.
        - `notHelpfulCount` integer: Whole number from 0.
        - `total` integer: Whole number from 0.
      - `unsuccessful` CommunityNotesRatingOutcome: A group of a contributor's ratings, by what each one said.
        - `helpfulCount` integer: Whole number from 0.
        - `notHelpfulCount` integer: Whole number from 0.
        - `total` integer: Whole number from 0.
      - `updatedAt` string, date-time: When X last counted the ratings.

## Other responses

- `400`: The path names no contributor or runs past its maxLength. Free.
- `401`: Non-MPP paid reads require Bearer authentication. Without credentials, the answer offers a guest checkout but does not create it. Invalid credentials return a plain error. Confirm before using any offered action.
- `402`: Payment required. MPP reads include `WWW-Authenticate`. Authenticated reads include balances, plus checkout when the key can open it. A key that reads only gets the account page instead. A failed request never creates checkout. A caller on a plan gets top-up only, plus `credits_renew_at` when the plan renews. Guest keys offer top-up.
- `404`: No contributor holds the alias. Free.
- `424`: Dependency unavailable, unauthorized, or limited. Default v1 uses 502. Best-practice responses use 424 for transparent dependency failures. Search answers 424 `search_unavailable` when X fails the query itself, or when its filters matched none of the last 3,000 posts read. The message says how far back the search read.
- `429`: Too many requests right now. Each user gets 500 reads a second. Each minute allows 120 writes & 60 deletes. `x_api_rate_limited` means X limits this read for now. Neither answer costs anything. Wait for the seconds in `Retry-After`, then retry.
- `500`: Unexpected error.
- `502`: Dependency unavailable, unauthorized, or limited. Default v1 uses 502. Best-practice responses use 424 for transparent dependency failures. Search answers 424 `search_unavailable` when X fails the query itself, or when its filters matched none of the last 3,000 posts read. The message says how far back the search read.
- `503`: Retry x_api_unavailable after Retry-After. With X-Xquik-Busy, retry until your deadline.
- `default`: Unexpected error.

## Changes

- **2026-10-20** `45942c75fdc2`: 20 warning
  - added the new `topup_in_progress` enum value to the `allOf[#/components/schemas/Error]/error/oneOf[subschema #1: LegacyErrorCode]/` response property for the response status `429`
  - added the new `topup_in_progress` enum value to the `allOf[#/components/schemas/Error]/error/oneOf[subschema #2: StructuredError]/code` response property for the response status `429`
  - added the new `topup_in_progress` enum value to the `error/oneOf[subschema #1: LegacyErrorCode]/` response property for the response status `400`
  - added the new `topup_in_progress` enum value to the `error/oneOf[subschema #1: LegacyErrorCode]/` response property for the response status `404`
  - …16 more

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/xquik-dev/apis/xquik-api/changes/api/v1/x/community-notes/contributors/:alias/get.md)

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