Get a Kalshi trader profile

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Get a public Kalshi trader profile by nickname: bio, followers, following, posts, profile views, top categories and join date, plus the trading metrics the trader shows publicly (volume, dollars traded, profit and loss, markets traded).

GET/v1/kalshi/profilex-api-key

Headers

Get your API key

x-api-keystringrequiredheader

Your ScrapeAtlas customer key. Create one on /account/ and set SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY.

Query parameters

nicknamestringrequiredquery

Kalshi nickname, 1–40 letters, digits, dots, underscores or hyphens.

ExampleDegenJohnny

Response fields

requestIdstring

Request correlation UUID.

Upstream requests, decoded response bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable data is returned; inspect status and coverage for omissions.

statusenum

success, partial, failed or challenged. HTTP 200 can be partial.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Kalshi public API URL the data was read from.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval time.

complete is false with metrics_unavailable when the metrics read failed.

coverage.sourcestring

Always included.

coverage.completeboolean

Always included.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Always included.

Profile with Kalshi’s field names: social_id, nickname, description, follower_count, following_count, posts_count, profile_view_count, top_categories, joined_at (date), profile_image_path and blocked.

social_profile.social_idstring

Always included.

social_profile.nicknamestring

Always included.

social_profile.follower_countintegeroptional

Optional.

social_profile.following_countintegeroptional

Optional.

social_profile.posts_countintegeroptional

Optional.

social_profile.profile_image_pathstringoptional

Optional.

social_profile.pending_profile_image_pathstringoptional

Optional.

social_profile.descriptionstringoptional

Optional.

social_profile.joined_atstringoptional

Optional.

social_profile.profile_view_countintegeroptional

Optional.

social_profile.top_categoriesstring[]optional

Optional.

up to 50 items

social_profile.blockedbooleanoptional

Optional.

enabled and viewer_status as Kalshi reports them to a logged-out reader.

inner_circle.enabledbooleanoptional

Optional.

inner_circle.viewer_statusstringoptional

Optional.

Public trading metrics: volume and volume_fp (contracts), dollars_traded, pnl and num_markets_traded. Metrics the trader hides are absent; values are Kalshi’s integers.

metrics.volumeintegeroptional

Optional.

metrics.volume_fpstringoptional

Optional.

metrics.dollars_tradedintegeroptional

Optional.

metrics.pnlintegeroptional

Optional.

metrics.num_markets_tradedintegeroptional

Optional.

HTTP 200 returns the success variant. Check status: partial means usable data with warnings, and failed or challenged requests carry a failure object described in Errors & responses.

Error codes

HTTP	failure.code	Meaning
200	`partial`	Usable data with market_limit, metadata_unavailable, candle_limit, window_truncated, comment_limit or metrics_unavailable warnings.
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, a link outside kalshi.com/markets, a price-history window above its period limit, or parameters Kalshi rejected.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid worker API key.
404	`not_found`	Unknown market, event, series, post or trader.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Kalshi rate limited the request.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Kalshi refused the public request.
502	`unsupported_page`	Malformed, mismatched or non-JSON source data.
502	`response_too_large` `payload_too_complex`	Response exceeded byte or parsing limits.
502	`unsafe_redirect` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	Bounded source retrieval could not complete.
503	`busy`	All worker slots and the waiting queue are occupied.
504	`timeout`	Total request deadline expired.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/profile?nickname=DegenJohnny" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/profile?nickname=DegenJohnny",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
    }
  }
);

const data = await response.json();
console.log(data.status, data);

type Result = {
  status: "success" | "partial" | "failed" | "challenged";
  requestId: string;
  [field: string]: unknown;
};

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/profile?nickname=DegenJohnny",
  {
    headers: {
      "x-api-key": process.env.SCRAPEATLAS_API_KEY!
    }
  }
);

const data = (await response.json()) as Result;
if (data.status === "failed" || data.status === "challenged") {
  throw new Error(`Kalshi request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/profile",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "nickname": "DegenJohnny"
    },
    timeout=60,
)
data = response.json()
print(data["status"], data)

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
)

func main() {
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/profile?nickname=DegenJohnny", nil)
	req.Header.Set("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
	resp, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	var data map[string]interface{}
	json.NewDecoder(resp.Body).Decode(&data)
	fmt.Println(data["status"], data)
}

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        var client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
        var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
            .uri(URI.create("https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/kalshi/profile?nickname=DegenJohnny"))
            .GET()
            .header("x-api-key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
            .build();
        var response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
        System.out.println(response.body());
    }
}

Use your sa_live_… customer key at https://api.scrapeatlas.com.

Responses

Successful result. Synthetic example validated against the runtime contract.

{
  "success": true,
  "status": "success",
  "requestId": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000001",
  "sourceUrl": "https://api.elections.kalshi.com/v1/social/profile?nickname=synthetic.trader",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-10-13T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 2,
    "responseBytes": 700,
    "durationMs": 340
  },
  "social_profile": {
    "social_id": "aaaaaaaa-bbbb-4ccc-8ddd-eeeeeeeeeeee",
    "nickname": "synthetic.trader",
    "description": "Synthetic bio",
    "follower_count": 7,
    "following_count": 12,
    "posts_count": 22,
    "profile_view_count": 1593,
    "top_categories": [
      "Sports"
    ],
    "joined_at": "2026-05-25",
    "profile_image_path": "synthetic-image",
    "pending_profile_image_path": "",
    "blocked": false
  },
  "inner_circle": {
    "enabled": true,
    "viewer_status": "none"
  },
  "metrics": {
    "volume": 38677,
    "volume_fp": "38677.00",
    "dollars_traded": 179668215,
    "pnl": -9707324,
    "num_markets_traded": 132
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, malformed or unsupported parameters, a link outside kalshi.com/markets, a price-history window above its period limit, or parameters Kalshi rejected.

{
  "requestId": "9d2f1c0a-6b1e-4c7d-9a8e-2f3b4c5d6e7f",
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 0,
    "responseBytes": 0,
    "durationMs": 0
  },
  "success": false,
  "status": "failed",
  "failure": {
    "code": "invalid_request",
    "message": "Invalid request: missing, duplicate, unsupported or malformed parameters."
  }
}