> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Person Identify API ## Overview The Person Identify API allows you to use broad search inputs to retrieve multiple records from our person dataset. In particular, this endpoint enables functionality such as searching through a single identifying attribute, such as name, email, phone number, company, school or location, in addition to using any combination of these attributes [and more](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/reference-person-identify-api#input-parameters). The API then scores and sorts all matching records that it returns based on the [strength of their association with the input parameters](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/output-response-person-identify-api#matchesmatch_score). {960} > 📘 How Does the Person Identify API Compare with Other Person-Related Endpoints? > > See our [Introduction](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/introduction#the-differences-between-our-person-related-apis) for a detailed breakdown regarding the differences between the Person Identify API and our other person-related products. ## Use Cases A key use case for this endpoint is building comprehensive profiles for specific individuals, such as in the areas of: * Investigations and forensics * Fraud risk modeling * Identity modeling for customer onboarding and other [KYC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer) applications ## How it Works At a high level, the Person Identify API works as follows: 1. You specify some characteristics about the identity that you are interested in and pass these as [input parameters](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/identify-api-input-parameters) to the API. 2. The API [cleans](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/cleaner-apis) the input parameter values and searches our Person Dataset for matching profiles using fuzzy-matching logic. 3. The API returns up to 20 of the the best matching profiles in its response while ranking them by their [match score](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/identify-api-output-response#matchesmatch_score). ## What's Next Please check out the following pages for more information on the Person Identify API: | Page | Description | | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | [Quickstart](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/quickstart-person-identify-api) | A quick hands-on introduction to the API with simple code examples. | | [Reference](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/reference-person-identify-api) | Detailed descriptions of the technical specifications and usage constraints. | | [Input Parameters](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/input-parameters-person-identify-api) | In-depth explanations of the input parameters that the API supports. | | [Output Response](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/output-response-person-identify-api) | In-depth explanations of the output response object that the API returns. | | [Examples](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/examples-person-identify-api) | A collection of functional code examples and walkthroughs that illustrate various use cases and applications of the API. | | [FAQs](https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/docs/faqs-person-identify-api) | Answers to commonly asked questions and other good-to-know information. | *** *Know someone who’d thrive building data products and helping us launch what’s next? We’d love to meet!* *Check out our [open roles](https://www.peopledatalabs.com/company?utm_source=docs\&utm_medium=footer\&utm_campaign=cta#jobs) →*