PEARCH AI
People Search API
People Search API lets your users programmatically search and rank people profiles using natural language queries and structured basic and Pearch.ai's custom filters.
Built for recruiting, networking and other people-centric products.
- Natural language people search api
- Filters as guardrails, not the core engine
- Relevance-based ranking
- Speed / quality controllability
- Designed to be a search infrastructure for products
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.pearch.ai/v2/search \
--header 'accept: application/json' \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"query": "All the engineers who joined stripe before their series b",
"type": "pro",
"insights": true,
"high_freshness": true,
"profile_scoring": true,
"custom_filters": {
"degrees": [ "MBA" ],
"has_b2b_experience": true,
"has_startup_experience": true,
"studied_at_top_universities": true,
"max_linkedin_followers": 5000
},
"strict_filters": true,
"filter_out_no_emails": false,
"reveal_emails": false,
"filter_out_no_phones": false,
"filter_out_no_phones_or_emails": false,
"reveal_phones": false,
"limit": 10,
"offset": 0,
"async": false
}
--url https://api.pearch.ai/v2/search \
--header 'accept: application/json' \
--header 'content-type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"query": "All the engineers who joined stripe before their series b",
"type": "pro",
"insights": true,
"high_freshness": true,
"profile_scoring": true,
"custom_filters": {
"degrees": [ "MBA" ],
"has_b2b_experience": true,
"has_startup_experience": true,
"studied_at_top_universities": true,
"max_linkedin_followers": 5000
},
"strict_filters": true,
"filter_out_no_emails": false,
"reveal_emails": false,
"filter_out_no_phones": false,
"filter_out_no_phones_or_emails": false,
"reveal_phones": false,
"limit": 10,
"offset": 0,
"async": false
}
WHAT IS A PEOPLE SEARCH API IN 2026
A People Search API allows developers to search across large populations of professional profiles and return ranked results, not just filtered records.
Unlike contact lookup or enrichment APIs, people search focuses on:
- interpreting human intent
- resolving ambiguous roles and titles
- ranking best-fit profiles instead of returning everything that matches
WHY PEOPLE SEARCH IS NOT THE SAME AS DATA SEARCH
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