# User Profile

Hacker News

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

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**Job:** [Search Hacker News](https://scrollport.com/tools/hacker-news-api)

**Current price:** $0.0050/request

**Availability:** Ready to run

## Tool details

**About this tool**

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.

**Inputs and outputs**

### Input

`username` string · required

Value supplied for username.

minLength: 1 · maxLength: 64

### Output

`captured_at` string

Returned captured at value.

`user` object

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**

- `not_found`: Hacker News could not find that public username.example: {"username":"pg"}

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