# Account API

> Your LurkAPI credit balance.

- **Platform:** [Account](https://lurkapi.com/docs/account.md) (lurkapi.com)
- **Web page:** https://lurkapi.com/docs/account

## Overview

Endpoints about your own LurkAPI account rather than a platform. Free to call.

Source: lurkapi.com.

## Try it live

Pick an endpoint and run it: real data, no signup, 5 free requests a day.

Live playground: https://lurkapi.com/docs/account#try

## Endpoints

- [Credit balance](https://lurkapi.com/docs/account/credit-balance.md): Your credit balance and daily top-up. Free. (GET /v1/account/credit-balance · free)

## Call it

Every endpoint is a `GET` with your key in the `x-api-key` header. For example, [Credit balance](https://lurkapi.com/docs/account/credit-balance.md):

curl:

```bash
curl "https://api.lurkapi.com/v1/account/credit-balance" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"
```

[Get a free API key](https://lurkapi.com/login?next=/dashboard)

## Use it in Claude

Once LurkAPI is [connected to Claude](https://lurkapi.com/docs.md#claude), each endpoint is a tool Claude can call:

| Tool | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `account_credit_balance` | [Credit balance](https://lurkapi.com/docs/account/credit-balance.md): Your credit balance and daily top-up. Free. |