We're bursting with excitement to share some incredible news that's about to level up your Pipl Search API experience! 🚀

Introducing our latest feature release which includes a new vehicle field, a VoIP indicator for phone numbers, an expanded available data section, and new updates to our SDKs.

New Vehicle Field

Vehicles are being added as a new field in the Search API response. Vehicles in the response can include the VIN, make, model, year and type.

{
"@valid_since": "2008-01-01",
"vin": "1ftrx18wx2nb71717",
"year": "2002",
"make": "ford",
"model": "f150",
"type": "pickup",
"display": "1ftrx18wx2nb71717-2002-ford-f150-pickup"
}

The new field has a dedicated array in the response and is included in the available data section:

If you have already been getting vehicles from the tag layer, you can continue using this method.

Searching by VIN

Search using a VIN number by using the new vin query parameter. Vin can be included together with other query parameters or in a full person search.

https://api.pipl.com/search/?key=YOUR_KEY&vin=JNKBV61EX7M710824

You can also continue using vin search using the username parameter.

Expanded Available Data Section

The available data section of a response will now give you increased insight into the types and sub-types of fields in a response. We have added indicator for the following:

vehicles
work emails
personal emails
voip phones

"available_data": {
      "premium": {
         "usernames": 2,
         "jobs": 9,
         "addresses": 2,
         "emails": 3,
         "work_emails": 2,
         "personal_emails": 1,
         "educations": 3,
         "user_ids": 3,
         "phones": 4,
         "mobile_phones": 1,
         "voip_phones": 1,
         "landline_phones": 2,
         "vehicles": 1,
         "social_profiles": 2,
         "names": 1,
         "genders": 1
      }
   }

VoIP Phones Indicator

Phone numbers that are VoIP (voice-over-IP) will now include an indicator in the metadata using the field @voip.

{
  "country_code": 1,
  "number": 9785550145,
  "@voip": true,
  "display": "(512) 555-0123",
  "display_international": "+1 512-555-0123",
}

VoIP Match Requirements

You can add VoIP phones as a match requirement for your API queries. You can combine this with other criteria or use it on its own:

match_requirements=phone.voip
match_requirements=phone.voip OR social_profiles

SDK/Code Library Updates

The Search API SDKs have been updated. In addition to adding support for new features, we have also updated our software version supports.

New Features

added support for the new vehicle field
add option to search with vin
add option to search with match requirements of voip phones - match_requirements=phone.voip

Updated Software Support

The Search API Code Libraries have been updated to support new software versions:

Python from 3.7 and above
Ruby from 3.0 and above
PHP from 8.0 and above
DotNet (Csharp ) from v6.0 and above
Java from 8 and above

Sept 27, 2023