Response

A search response may contain either a person object or a list of possible persons, depending on our confidence level that we can match your search to a single person.

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Typically, a single person response will contain more data about the person than a possible person object. To pull up all the data about a possible person, you’ll need to run a search using its search pointer.

Response Fields

A search response contains the following top-level fields:

Property

Type

Description

@http_status_code

Integer

The HTTP status code of the response. Successful calls will be 200.

@visible_sources

Integer

The number of sources returned in the sources array (if show_sources is not false).

@available_sources

Integer

The number of sources we know of that are relevant to the search.

@persons_count

Integer

The number of persons returned in this API response.

@search_id

String

An internal ID that identifies the search on our systems. Useful for debugging.

query

Person

A person object representing your search parameters. Useful to see how we understood your search.

match_requirements

String

The canonical way to express the match requirement you’ve sent. Useful to see how we’ve parsed your criteria.

available_data

AvailableData

An available_data object. A summary of the data we have for this search.

error

String

An error message explaining an error that prevented your search from being run.

warnings

Array

An array of warning strings.

person

Person

A person object containing the data about the person you are searching for—if a single person was matched to your query.

possible_persons

Array

An array of person objects containing possible matches.

sources

Array

An array of source objects, in case you need to see where the data came from.

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Metadata

Metadata is prefixed with the '@' character.