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Get Hacker News user by ID

Return a public Hacker News user profile by case-sensitive username, including karma, account creation date, and the about text. Useful for attributing stories and comments and profiling contributors.

Pricing — Free

This endpoint returns billing metadata with zero credits charged.

GET
/hacker-news/users/{id}

Authorization

bearerAuth
AuthorizationBearer <token>

UnifAPI API key. Provider credentials are managed by UnifAPI.

In: header

Path Parameters

id*string

Case-sensitive Hacker News username.

Header Parameters

Unifapi-Version?string

Pin the API version an integration was built against (date-based, e.g. 2026-07-01). Omit to use the current version. Public URL paths stay stable and unversioned; breaking changes ship under a new dated version and are announced with Deprecation and Sunset response headers. The served version is echoed in every response's Unifapi-Version header. Policy: https://unifapi.com/versioning.md

Response Body

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

application/json

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application/json

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curl -X GET "https://example.com/hacker-news/users/string"
{  "request_id": "string",  "data": {    "id": "string",    "created": 0,    "karma": 0,    "about": "string",    "submitted": [      0    ]  },  "billing": {    "credits_charged": 0,    "records_charged": 0,    "balance_remaining": 0,    "truncated_due_to_balance": true  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}
{  "error": {    "type": "validation_error",    "message": "string",    "request_id": "string",    "issues": [      null    ],    "billing": {      "credits_required": 0,      "credits_charged": 0,      "records_charged": 0,      "balance_remaining": 0,      "truncated_due_to_balance": true    }  }}