Instant search bar functionality
Generate intelligent suggestions to build wholistic applications around person and company data.
Optimize user search experiences
Get instant results
Generate suggestions for eleven different fields as soon as users start typing.
Intelligent sorting
Suggestions are ranked using frequency of occurrence across our person dataset.
Search API compatible
Directly pass suggestions into queries for our Person and Company Search APIs.
Built for developers, by developers
Our easy to use RESTful API and SDKs let you get started in a few lines of code
1import requests, json
2
3# Set your API key
4API_KEY = "YOUR API KEY"
5
6# Set the Autocomplete API URL
7PDL_URL = "https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/autocomplete"
8
9# Create a parameters JSON object
10PARAMS = {
11 "api_key": API_KEY,
12 "field": "school",
13 "text": "stanf",
14 "size": 10,
15 "pretty": True
16}
17
18# Pass the parameters object to the Autocomplete API
19json_response = requests.get(PDL_URL, params=PARAMS).json()
20
21# Print the API response in JSON format
22print(json_response)How does it work?
The Autocomplete API is built to power better search experiences.
Select field
Specify the type of field you would like to generate an autocomplete suggestion for. Choose from 11 different fields including: job title, company, location, school, industries, roles/subroles, skills, majors, and more.
Provide seed text
Send an API call with the text from your input field as you type.
Get your results
Get up to 100 autocomplete suggestions ranked by frequency with each call. When a search is executed, feed results into the Person or Company Search API as query parameters.
What will you build?
