Get a Whatnot seller profile

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Read a public seller profile: identity, bio, images, follower/sold counts, average ship days, rating and review count, verified/live/premier flags and the current live show.

GET/v1/whatnot/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

handlestringquery

Whatnot username. Exactly one of handle, user_id or url.

Exampleexample_seller

user_idstringquery

Numeric Whatnot user id (the decoded PublicUserNode id).

urlstringquery

Public profile URL https://www.whatnot.com/user/{handle}.

min 1 chars · max 2048 chars

Response fields

requestIdstring

Random operational correlation ID.

Upstream GraphQL requests, response bytes and elapsed milliseconds.

accounting.upstreamRequestsinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.responseBytesinteger

Always included.

≥ 0

accounting.durationMsnumber

Always included.

≥ 0

successboolean

True when usable public data was retrieved.

statusenum

success, partial, failed or challenged. Inspect coverage even for HTTP 200.

one of: success, partial

sourceUrlstring

Public www.whatnot.com URL the data belongs to.

absolute HTTPS URL

fetchedAtstring

UTC retrieval timestamp.

Complete means this bounded page had no known omissions; warnings name each omission.

coverage.sourcestring

Always public_api (Whatnot's public web GraphQL endpoint).

coverage.completeboolean

False when any warning is present.

coverage.warningsstring[]

Machine-readable omission codes such as sections_skipped or record_limit.

Seller profile.

profile.idstring

Relay node id.

profile.userIdstringnullable

Numeric user id decoded from the node id.

profile.usernamestring

Username.

profile.displayNamestringnullable

Display name.

Profile image id and URL.

profile.profileImage.idstringnullable

Always included.

profile.profileImage.urlstringnullable

Always included.

profile.isLivebooleannullable

Whether the seller is live now.

profile.isVerifiedSellerbooleannullable

Verified-seller badge.

profile.followerCountintegernullable

Followers.

profile.soldCountintegernullable

Items sold.

profile.ratingnumbernullable

Average seller rating out of 5.

profile.numReviewsintegernullable

Number of seller reviews.

profile.biostringnullable

Bio text.

Store banner image.

profile.storeImage.idstringnullable

Always included.

profile.storeImage.urlstringnullable

Always included.

profile.followingCountintegernullable

Accounts followed.

profile.averageShipDaysintegernullable

Average days to ship.

profile.canGoLivebooleannullable

Seller can host shows.

profile.isPremierShopbooleannullable

Premier shop status.

Live show in progress (id, status, activeViewers) or null.

profile.currentLivestream.idstring

Always included.

profile.currentLivestream.statusstringnullable

Always included.

profile.currentLivestream.activeViewersintegernullable

Always included.

profile.urlstring

Canonical profile URL.

absolute HTTPS URL

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
400	`invalid_request`	Missing, duplicate, unsupported or invalid parameters, or more than one selector.
401	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid service key.
404	`not_found`	Unknown user, livestream, listing or tag.
429	`upstream_rate_limited`	Whatnot rate limited the request; no automatic retry.
502	`upstream_challenged`	Cloudflare challenge or HTTP 403/503 from Whatnot.
502	`unsupported_page` `unsafe_redirect` `response_too_large` `payload_too_complex` `request_limit` `upstream_error`	Bounded retrieval failed or the GraphQL response no longer matches the expected schema.
503	`busy`	All worker slots occupied.
504	`timeout`	Deadline exceeded.
200	`partial`	Coverage warnings such as sections_skipped or record_limit.

Code example

curl "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/whatnot/profile?handle=example_seller" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

const response = await fetch(
  "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/whatnot/profile?handle=example_seller",
  {
    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/whatnot/profile?handle=example_seller",
  {
    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(`Whatnot request failed: ${data.requestId}`);
}
console.log(data);

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.scrapeatlas.com/v1/whatnot/profile",
    headers={"x-api-key": "YOUR_API_KEY"},
    params={
        "handle": "example_seller"
    },
    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/whatnot/profile?handle=example_seller", 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/whatnot/profile?handle=example_seller"))
            .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",
  "profile": {
    "id": "UHVibGljVXNlck5vZGU6MTIzNDU=",
    "userId": "12345",
    "username": "example_seller",
    "displayName": "Example Seller",
    "profileImage": {
      "id": "1",
      "url": "https://images.whatnot.com/example.jpeg"
    },
    "isLive": false,
    "isVerifiedSeller": true,
    "followerCount": 9074,
    "soldCount": 6178,
    "rating": 5,
    "numReviews": 2588,
    "bio": "Synthetic bio",
    "storeImage": null,
    "followingCount": 87,
    "averageShipDays": 1,
    "canGoLive": true,
    "isPremierShop": true,
    "currentLivestream": null,
    "url": "https://www.whatnot.com/user/example_seller"
  },
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.whatnot.com/user/example_seller",
  "fetchedAt": "2026-09-11T00:00:00.000Z",
  "coverage": {
    "source": "public_api",
    "complete": true,
    "warnings": []
  },
  "accounting": {
    "upstreamRequests": 1,
    "responseBytes": 24000,
    "durationMs": 380
  }
}

Missing, duplicate, unsupported or invalid parameters, or more than one selector.

{
  "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."
  }
}