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post/hackernews/v1/user1 credit

user profile by id: karma/created/about/submitted; hydrate_submitted=resolve recent submissions

Working example

Parameters

idrequired

HackerNews username (case-sensitive), e.g. 'pg'.

hydrate_submittedoptional

If true, resolve the user's recent submissions into full objects instead of bare ids.

submitted_limitoptional

When hydrate_submitted=true, how many recent submissions to resolve (1-100). (1–100)

request preview

curl -X POST https://api.reefapi.com/hackernews/v1/user \
  -H "x-api-key: $REEF_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"id":"pg"}'

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