Hacker News · Capability

Hacker News API — Users

Hacker News API — Users. 1 operations. Lead operation: Get user profile. Self-contained Naftiko capability covering one Hacker News business surface.

Run with Naftiko Hacker NewsUsers

What You Can Do

GET
Getuser — Get user profile
/v1/user/username-json

MCP Tools

get-user-profile

Get user profile

read-only idempotent

Capability Spec

hacker-news-users.yaml Raw ↑
naftiko: 1.0.0-alpha2
info:
  label: Hacker News API — Users
  description: 'Hacker News API — Users. 1 operations. Lead operation: Get user profile. Self-contained Naftiko capability
    covering one Hacker News business surface.'
  tags:
  - Hacker News
  - Users
  created: '2026-05-19'
  modified: '2026-05-19'
binds:
- namespace: env
  keys:
    HACKER_NEWS_API_KEY: HACKER_NEWS_API_KEY
capability:
  consumes:
  - type: http
    namespace: hacker-news-users
    baseUri: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0
    description: Hacker News API — Users business capability. Self-contained, no shared references.
    resources:
    - name: user-username}.json
      path: /user/{username}.json
      operations:
      - name: getuser
        method: GET
        description: Get user profile
        outputRawFormat: json
        outputParameters:
        - name: result
          type: object
          value: $.
        inputParameters:
        - name: username
          in: path
          type: string
          description: Case-sensitive HN username.
          required: true
  exposes:
  - type: rest
    namespace: hacker-news-users-rest
    port: 8080
    description: REST adapter for Hacker News API — Users. One Spectral-compliant resource per consumed operation, prefixed
      with /v1.
    resources:
    - path: /v1/user/username-json
      name: user-username-json
      description: REST surface for user-username}.json.
      operations:
      - method: GET
        name: getuser
        description: Get user profile
        call: hacker-news-users.getuser
        with:
          username: rest.username
        outputParameters:
        - type: object
          mapping: $.
  - type: mcp
    namespace: hacker-news-users-mcp
    port: 9090
    transport: http
    description: MCP adapter for Hacker News API — Users. One tool per consumed operation, routed inline through this capability's
      consumes block.
    tools:
    - name: get-user-profile
      description: Get user profile
      hints:
        readOnly: true
        destructive: false
        idempotent: true
      call: hacker-news-users.getuser
      with:
        username: tools.username
      outputParameters:
      - type: object
        mapping: $.