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People Search API. Find the people who fit.

Describe the people you need in plain English. Get up to 10 profiles per call with role, employer, location, experience, skills, and schools.

Query

VPs of sales at solar companies in California

  • countriesUS
  • years_of_experience_min8

Top matches10 per page

  • Alex MorganVP of Sales · SolsticeSan Francisco
  • Priya RamanHead of Sales · Helio GridOakland
  • Daniel OrtizVP, Sales · Sunward EnergySan Diego

JSON response

people.json

{
  "results": [
    {
      "name": "Alex Morgan",
      "role": {
        "title": "VP of Sales",
        "seniority": "executive",
        "company": { "name": "Solstice", "domain": "solstice.example" }
      },
      "location": { "region": "California", "country_code": "US" },
      "years_of_experience": 12,
      "skills": ["Enterprise Sales", "Renewable Energy"]
    }
  ],
  "next_cursor": "eyJwYWdlIjoyfQ"
}

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Describe who you need. Get structured profiles.

Search by role, employer, location, skills, or experience in one sentence, narrow it with filters, and read every match as JSON.

  • Search in plain English

    Write the query the way you would brief a recruiter: role, industry, location, skills, or experience.

    • Role and industryEngineers at fintech companies
    • Role and locationProduct leaders in London
    • ExperiencePeople who have scaled Kubernetes
  • Filter what must match

    Country and experience filters apply on top of the query, and every result matches both.

    countries
    US, CA
    years_of_experience_min
    5
    years_of_experience_max
    15
  • Read structured profiles

    Each match includes the current role, employer domain, location, experience, skills, schools, and profile links.

    Alex MorganVP of Sales
    Employer
    Solstice
    Location
    San Francisco
    Experience
    12 years
    Skills
    Enterprise Sales

Search people from any language.

Call people.search from the TypeScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, or Go SDK, or send one POST request. Pass next_cursor back as cursor for the next page.

npm install context.dev
people-search.ts
import ContextDev from 'context.dev';

const client = new ContextDev({ apiKey: 'YOUR_API_KEY' });

const { results, next_cursor } = await client.people.search({
  query: 'VPs of sales at solar companies in California',
  filters: { countries: ['US'], years_of_experience_min: 8 },
});

for (const person of results) {
  console.log(person.name, person.role.title, person.role.company?.domain);
}

console.log(next_cursor); // pass as cursor, with the same query, for the next page

From one description to a list you can act on.

Build outbound lists for sales or shortlists for hiring, with the same query you would give a teammate.

  • Build prospect lists

    Turn your ideal customer profile into the decision makers to contact, then pass each employer domain to Retrieve Brand for logos and company details.

    Heads of RevOps at B2B SaaS companies

    • Jordan LeeHead of RevOpsnorthwind.example
    • Sam KimVP, Revenue Operationsledgerly.example
    • Maya AbiodunDirector of RevOpsquotient.example
  • Source candidates

    Search by skills, experience, and location to build a shortlist before the job post goes live, with schools and skills on every profile.

    Backend engineers in Berlin who know Go

    • Lena WeberSenior Backend Engineer · 8 years
      • Go
      • Kubernetes
      • PostgreSQL
    • Tomasz NowakStaff Engineer · 11 years
      • Go
      • gRPC
      • Distributed Systems

People search API, answered.

More details in the API documentation.

What is a people search API?

A people search API finds people who match a description and returns their profiles as structured data. Send a query such as “VPs of sales at solar companies in California” and get up to 10 matching people per request, each with role, employer, location, experience, skills, and schools.

How much does the People Search API cost?

Each page of up to 10 people costs 10 credits, and searches with no matches are free. The free plan includes 1,000 credits every month, enough for 100 searches. Paid plans start at $20 a month for 10,000 credits.

Is there a free people search API?

Yes. The free plan includes 1,000 credits a month with no credit card, which covers 100 searches and up to 1,000 profiles.

What does each result include?

A name, a short description, public profile links, and a location with country, region, and city. The current role includes the title, seniority, functions, start date, and employer name and domain. Results also include years of experience, a founder flag, skills, and schools. Unavailable details are null or empty lists.

How do I get more than 10 results?

Pass next_cursor from the response back as cursor, with the same query and filters, to fetch the next page. Stop when next_cursor is null. There is no limit parameter, and a cursor only works with the query and filters that produced it.

Can I filter by country or experience?

Yes. filters.countries takes two-letter country codes such as US or GB, and years_of_experience_min and years_of_experience_max set an experience range. Filters apply on top of the query, so every result matches both.

Does it return email addresses or phone numbers?

No. Results include public professional profile links and work details, not contact information.

How is People Search different from People Enrichment?

People Search finds many people from a description. People Enrichment looks up one person from an email, a profile URL, or a name with company context, and returns a match score.

Which languages can I use?

Use the TypeScript, Python, Ruby, PHP, or Go SDK, or send a POST request to https://api.context.dev/v1/people/search from any language with your API key.

Find the people who fit.

Describe who you need and get structured profiles back. The same API key works for company search, enrichment, and scraping.

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Every month. No credit card required.

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