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We offer multiple person-related APIs, so how are they different? Here’s a summary of each: Person Enrichment: Finds the single best profile matching certain attributes about a particular person. Person Search: Finds all the profiles for any number of persons that satisfy some search criteria. Person Identify: Finds the best selection of profiles associated with a particular set of attributes for a person or related persons. Here’s a table that summarizes some of the key differences: The key takeaway is that the Person Identify API exists between our Person Enrichment and Search APIs in terms of functionality. Compared to the Person Enrichment API, which returns a single record for a single person, the Person Identify API supports broader search inputs and returns multiple strongly-related profiles. This means that the Person Identify API is ideal for situations in which you do not have enough information to uniquely resolve a person and are interested in recovering highly-probable candidates. The Person Enrichment API is better suited to targeted enrichment when you have enough uniquely-identifying information. Compared to the Person Search API, the Person Identify API has standardized input parameters and provides a match score for each returned profile. This means that you can use the Person Identify API to recover a focused selection of highly related profiles, unlike the Person Search API, which will return a potentially large demographic cross-section of our Person Dataset with more loosely-related profiles.

Person Enrichment API

You can use the Person Enrichment API to enrich data on a person:

Bulk Person Enrichment API

We also provide a Bulk Person Enrichment API, which allows you to enrich 1-100 persons in a single request (recommended for high-volume usage):

Person Search API

You can use the Person Search API to write queries (in either Elasticsearch or SQL format) against our Person Dataset and return the profiles that match those queries:

Person Identify API

You can use the Person Identify API to access multiple strongly-associated profiles based on some broadly identifying criteria (such as a name or a street address):