Hacker News API

Hacker News Profile API

Get a Hacker News user's public profile by username - karma, bio, and account details as clean JSON.

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$1.50/1k req, pay per request, no subscription.

What the API returned
{
"username": "patio11",
"bio": "Works on Stripe. Writes about software, pricing, and Japan. Formerly bingo card creator, now less so.",
"karma": 62841
}
Uptime
100.00%
30d · 5 calls
Requests
5
30d · weekly, last 12 wks
Response
0.3s
median · 30d

Pricing and providers

Hacker News Profile API pricing: one API, 2 interchangeable providers

The cheapest provider serves first. If it fails, the next one takes over in the same call.

You pay
$15.00
$1.50/1k req, only for what you use. No monthly plan.
Your first 66 requests are free with the $0.10 starting balance.

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Get Hacker News profile in one request

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{
  "found": true,
  "data": {
    "username": "patio11",
    "bio": "Works on Stripe. Writes about software, pricing, and Japan. Formerly bingo card creator, now less so.",
    "karma": 62841
  }
}

Full parameter and response reference - every field, type, and example for this endpoint.

Reference

One request, one response shape.

Every field you send and every field you get back, each with a real example.

Last verified 2026-10-31 · uptime and latency measured over 30d

Request body

JSON, posted to this endpoint.

  • handlestring

    patio11

    Hacker News username, e.g. "pg".

You send. A small JSON body. The values shown are examples to replace with your own.

Response

JSON, one example value per field.

datadata
  • biostring

    Works on Stripe. Writes about software, pricing, and Japan. Formerly bingo card creator, now less so.

  • karmainteger

    62841

  • usernamestring

    patio11

    Populated whenever the provider has data for the entity.

top level
  • foundboolean

    true

  • reason"not_found"

    Present only when `found` is false, and says why there is no result. `not_found`: the source states the target does not exist, or returned nothing for it. A `found: false` answer is a successful call, not an error, and `costUsd` is what it actually cost.

You get back. Named, typed fields in the same shape whichever source answers.

FAQ

About the Hacker News Profile API

The AnyAPI Hacker News Profile API returns Hacker News profile data as normalized JSON from one POST call to /v1/run/hackernews.profile. Get a Hacker News user's public profile by username - karma, bio, and account details as clean JSON. AnyAPI routes each request across 2 sources and falls back automatically when one fails. It costs from $1.50 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Hacker News profile calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 0.3 seconds across 5 measured calls.

It costs from $1.50 per 1,000 requests, in US dollars with no subscription and no monthly minimum. You fund one USD wallet and each call draws it down. Some failed wallet-funded requests incur processing charges that we pass through at cost, with no markup; the error response shows the amount charged.

Get a Hacker News user's public profile by username - karma, bio, and account details as clean JSON. The response is normalized JSON with the same envelope every AnyAPI endpoint returns, so parsing a second endpoint is a change of URL and nothing else.

Over the last 30 days, 100.0% of Hacker News profile calls through AnyAPI succeeded, with a median response time of 0.3 seconds across 5 measured calls. These are AnyAPI's own measurements of traffic through the gateway, recomputed continuously, not a published service-level target.

Yes. A new AnyAPI account starts with $0.10 of free balance and no card required, which covers 66 Hacker News Profile calls at $0.0015 each.

AnyAPI asks the next of its 2 sources in the same request, cheapest first, so one source going down does not fail your call.

Send a POST request to https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/hackernews.profile with your AnyAPI key in an "Authorization: Bearer" header and the input as a JSON body. The same key and the same wallet work on every AnyAPI endpoint.

No. You add US dollars to one prepaid AnyAPI balance and each request draws it down. There is no monthly plan and no minimum, and the same balance pays for every AnyAPI endpoint.

Yes. Install @getanyapi/sdk from npm for TypeScript or getanyapi from pip for Python. Both call every AnyAPI endpoint with the same key, and any HTTP client works too.

Yes. An agent can connect to the AnyAPI MCP server at https://api.getanyapi.com/mcp, or create its own free-trial key with one unauthenticated POST to https://api.getanyapi.com/agent/signup and call this endpoint over HTTP.
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