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Getting Started

In order to use one of our Cleaner APIs, you must have an active API key. You can look up your API key by logging into our self-serve dashboard and going to the API Keys section.
Need an API Key?If you don’t have an API key, you can easily create one by signing up for a self-serve account. For more information, check out our Self-Serve Quickstart Guide, which walks you through the sign-up process as well as shows you how to use the self-serve API dashboard.

Simple Example

As mentioned in the Overview, the Cleaner APIs are a means of cleaning company, school and location data in order to get the best results from your API queries. To use the Cleaner APIs, you will need a set ofinput parameters for the particular Cleaner API that you are using. Here’s a quick example that demonstrates cleaning a company record with a website of peopledatalabs.com:
The response that the API returns is a cleaned company profile if the input parameters passed to it matches a record in our company dataset:
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If you don’t get this response, check out our Errors page for more information.