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PRODUCTS PERSON SEARCH API

On-demand access to workforce data

Choose from 200+ different field attributes to find targeted segments of person profiles from the person dataset.

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Find the person profiles you need, at scale

Expressive search criteria

Precisely define the search criteria you want to retrieve the exact set of profiles you need.

Pay per record

Only pay for each match record, and utilize that highly actionable data in your project or platform.

Developer friendly

Results are returned quickly using the power of NoSQL, and built to easily handle Elasticsearch or SQL requests.

Built by engineers

Our products allow you to build your platform around a suite of APIs, making query construction efficient and simple.

Solutions for any industry or use case

Customers trust our Person Search API to power their products.

use case
Sales & Marketing
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Reliably return more leads for every single search while still maintaining quality and performance on your sales and marketing platform

use case
Investment Intelligence
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Find a targeted cohort of potential founders and key hires, or deep dive into employees at a company for dilligence purposes

use case
HR Tech
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Help recruiters find and identify candidates by building a front-end on top of a hosted pool of high quality candidates

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)

Easily integrate with your systems

Append, transform, and sync data across the systems you use.

USING THE API

How does it work?

The Person Search API is built for developers, by developers.

Specify your search criteria

Use 200+ demographic attributes to specify the profiles you are looking for including job titles, employment history, educational background, skills, location and more. Exploit the full expressive power of SQL or Elasticsearch query language syntax.

Get your results

Matching records are quickly identified across our Person Dataset and sent back to you. You have full control over the number of matching profiles returned back, from a just single record to everything in our dataset.

Talk to a data consultant

Schedule a call to discuss your data needs with an expert in your industry.

Start building today

Are you ready to dive into the data? Get started right now for free.