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Currently Hacking

List users currently hacking

Returns the set of users who have logged a direct-entry coding heartbeat in the last 5 minutes, along with the project each is currently working on (if its repo mapping is not archived). The endpoint is public (no authentication required) and the result is cached for 5 minutes.

get/api/v1/currently_hacking

Response

successful

countinteger required

Number of users currently hacking.

Example response

{
  "count": 1,
  "users": [
    {
      "display_name": "Orpheus",
      "avatar_url": "https://hackatime.hackclub.com/images/athena.png",
      "country_code": "US",
      "working_on": {
        "project_name": "hackatime",
        "repo_url": "https://github.com/hackclub/hackatime"
      }
    }
  ]
}