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User Profile

Hacker News

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

Capability
Hacker News research
Current price
$0.0050/call
Availability
Ready to run
Last accepted verification

What this API does

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.

Agents select this operation with tool ID hacker-news.user-profile, then inspect its current executable contract before a run.

Public input and output shape

Input

usernamestring · required

Value supplied for username.

minLength: 1 · maxLength: 64

Output

captured_atstring

Returned captured at value.

userobject

Returned user value.

Example request and output

This reviewed worked example is shared with inspect. Inspect also returns the current executable schema and price estimate before a paid run.

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"
}
Teaching errors and limitations
  • not_found: Hacker News could not find that public username.example: {"username":"pg"}
Updated
21 August 2026

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