Endpoint

The endpoint for the Autocomplete API is: https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/autocomplete.

Autocomplete API Access and Billing

By default, all active API keys have free access to the Autocomplete API.

When monitoring usage, each call to the Autocomplete API displays as one Autocomplete credit, regardless of the records available.

Rate Limiting

Our default limit for self-serve customers is 60 requests per minute and 1,000 requests per day. For enterprise customers, we offer rate limits of up to 1,200 requests per minute. If you are interested in higher rate limits, please reach out to us.

Input Parameters

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For More Details, See Input Parameters - Autocomplete API.
You can also click on the individual parameter names in the table below to view more information on them.

Parameter Name	Required	Description	Default	Example
`field`	Yes	The field that the API will perform autocompletion upon.	None	`title`
`text`	No	The text that the API will use as the seed for autocompletion.	`""`	`tesl`
`size`	No	The number of results that the API should return, which must be between `1` and `100`.	`10`	`100`
`pretty`	No	Whether the output should have human-readable indentation.	`False`	`True`
`api_key`	No	Your secret API key. While we do not require this as part of the request parameters, if you do not provide it here, then you must provide it using an alternative means, such as in the headers using the `x-api-key` field. For more information, see the Authentication page.	None

Output Response

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For More Details, See Output Response - Autocomplete API
You can also click the field names in the table below to view more information on them.

Field Name	Type	Description
`fields`	`Array (String)`	The list of fields in the Person Schema that the Autocomplete API has returned suggestions for. It determines these based on the value that you used for the `field` input parameter.
`data`	`Array (Object)`	The list of suggestions that the Autocomplete API has returned. It sorts results in descending order based on the `data.count` subfield (with the highest counts first.) The `size` input parameter determines the size of the list.
`data.count`	`Int`	The number of records in our Person Dataset (resume slice) for this Autocomplete API suggestion. The API uses this field for sorting elements in the `data` array.
`data.name`	`String`	The plain text name of the Autocomplete API suggestion. For example, company name, school name, location name, title and so forth. The prefix of this field will match the value of the `text` input parameter.
`data.meta`	`Object`	A set of additional fields that the API returns for each result in the data array. The metadata fields depend on the `field` input parameter. See the mapping between `field` values (input parameter) and `meta` (output fields) here.
`status`	`Int`	The API response code.

Abridged Response Data Structure

Here is an example response from the Autocomplete API when querying for field = "company" and text = "goog" (See a full example response in the next section.)

{
  "data": [
     {
      "name": "google",
      "count": 248006,
      "meta": {
        "website": "google.com",
        "location_name": "mountain view, california, united states",
        "industry": "internet",
        "id": "google"
      }
    },
   ...
  ],
  "fields": [
    "job_company_name",
    "experience.company.name"
  ],
  "status": 200
}

Full Example Response (Autocomplete API - School Index)

Input Query (click to toggle)

import json

# See https://github.com/peopledatalabs/peopledatalabs-python
from peopledatalabs import PDLPY

# Create a client, specifying an API key
client = PDLPY(
    api_key="YOUR API KEY",
)

params = {
    "field": "school",
    "text": "stanf",
    "size": 10,
    "pretty": True
}

json_response = client.autocomplete(**params).json()

print(json_response)

Output Response (full):

{
  "data": [
    {
      "name": "stanford university",
      "count": 434677,
      "meta": {
        "website": "stanford.edu",
        "location_name": "stanford, california, united states",
        "id": "1W561qgHMjuYX4YWF1sIrQ_0"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "stanford university graduate school of business",
      "count": 44080,
      "meta": {
        "website": "gsb.stanford.edu",
        "location_name": "stanford, california, united states",
        "id": "HSBJxyTEjoUZ0HB0QMYNhg_0"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "stanford law school",
      "count": 10425,
      "meta": {
        "website": "law.stanford.edu",
        "location_name": "stanford, california, united states",
        "id": "7oB8xssxBNsgj55NVNgX8w_0"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "stanford university school of medicine",
      "count": 9788,
      "meta": {
        "website": "med.stanford.edu",
        "location_name": "palo alto, california, united states",
        "id": "Bx27PJ2pdlcuFt305W0--g_0"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "stanford continuing studies",
      "count": 5248,
      "meta": {
        "website": "continuingstudies.stanford.edu",
        "location_name": "stanford, california, united states",
        "id": "Ij6aIDqpy2vcAEvsy84d7A_0"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "stanford university graduate school of education",
      "count": 1943,
      "meta": {
        "website": "ed.stanford.edu",
        "location_name": "stanford, california, united states",
        "id": "7memxNXEkFjKfVFzugGARw_0"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "stanford university school of engineering",
      "count": 1557,
      "meta": {
        "website": "engineering.stanford.edu",
        "location_name": "stanford, california, united states",
        "id": "EmDZlGWe-NO97qziNWDZlQ_0"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "stanford graduate school of business executive education",
      "count": 1197,
      "meta": {
        "website": null,
        "location_name": "united states",
        "id": "gAhTlHvSnTzbG9v8GIBzHg_0"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "stanfield secondary school",
      "count": 326,
      "meta": {
        "website": "stanfield.k12.or.us",
        "location_name": "stanfield, oregon, united states",
        "id": "eeSTd4RdDZx8blKM9CsHdw_0"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "stanford online high school",
      "count": 325,
      "meta": {
        "website": "ohs.stanford.edu",
        "location_name": "stanford, california, united states",
        "id": "dZ7tnAE3--3kiSjm6xauSQ_0"
      }
    }
  ],
  "fields": [
    "education.school.name"
  ],
  "status": 200
}

Errors

If the request encounters an error, it will instead return an Error Response in the format described in Errors.