Get account by username

GET

https://egld-api.nownodes.io/usernames/{username}

Authorizations

ApiKeyAuthApiKeyAuth

api-key string

NOWNodes API key passed in the api-key header.

Looks up an account using its human‑readable username (e.g., "alice.elrond" or the HEX representation). Returns the same account information as the /accounts/{address} endpoint, including balance, nonce, shard, root hash, and the resolved username.

Parameters

usernamestringrequiredpath

Human‑readable username (e.g., "alice.elrond") or its HEX representation

Response

200OK

Successful response

Get account by username

curl -X GET 'https://egld-api.nownodes.io/usernames/{username}'

const response = await fetch('https://egld-api.nownodes.io/usernames/{username}', {
  method: 'GET',
});

const data = await response.json();

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://egld-api.nownodes.io/usernames/{username}')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(request) }
data = JSON.parse(response.body)

import requests

response = requests.get('https://egld-api.nownodes.io/usernames/{username}')
data = response.json()

const response = await fetch('https://egld-api.nownodes.io/usernames/{username}', {
  method: 'GET',
});

const data = await response.json();

const endpoint = "https://egld-api.nownodes.io/usernames/{username}";
const apiKey = "YOUR_API_KEY";

async function nownodesRequest(payload) {
  const response = await fetch(endpoint, {
    method: "GET",
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
      "api-key": apiKey,
    },
    body: JSON.stringify(payload),
  });

  return response.json();
}

const result = await nownodesRequest({});
console.log(result);

const response = await fetch('https://egld-api.nownodes.io/usernames/{username}', {
  method: 'GET',
});

const data = await response.json();

import requests

response = requests.get('https://egld-api.nownodes.io/usernames/{username}')
data = response.json()

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

uri = URI('https://egld-api.nownodes.io/usernames/{username}')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) { |http| http.request(request) }
data = JSON.parse(response.body)

200

{
  "address": "erd1qga7ze0l03chfgru0a32wxqf2226nzrxnyhzer9lmudqhjgy7ycqjjyknz",
  "balance": "162486906126924046",
  "nonce": 45,
  "timestamp": 0,
  "shard": 0,
  "rootHash": "9B2w5VHA7jm3cgAsZEmBVfz7XSGDwVzwFIWau6yRFgw=",
  "username": "alice.elrond",
  "developerReward": "0"
}