Hacker News Tools

Hackernews Get User

Retrieve a Hacker News user's public profile by their username. Returns the user's username, karma score, and optional bio/about text. Use this to look up information about HN community members.

Write ActionRisk level 2 of 5Aident-managed accessFree Action

Use Hackernews Get User

Owner App

Hacker News ToolsApp

Required inputs

usernameRequiredstring

The case-sensitive username of the Hacker News user to retrieve (e.g., 'pg', 'dang').

Observable output

dataRequired
Data from the action execution
errorstring
Error if any occurred during the execution of the action
successfulRequiredboolean
Whether or not the action execution was successful or not

Setup and approval

Aident-managed access. Risk level 2 of 5.

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