Identity risk management for the 21st century
Immediate access to risk profiles for assessment and customer intelligence
Identify API
Instant access to PDL's global identity dataset
Comprehensive identity information
Access extensive records on work, education, and location history as well as associated professional and social profiles.
Flexible search criteria
Search for information using a combination of input parameters including name, email, phone, location, employment, social profiles, and more.
Match against multiple identities
Dive into the long-tail data of associated profiles for a given identity.
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»Powering fraud & risk use cases
The Identify API is used to build comprehensive profiles for specific individuals from our person dataset.
Fraud prevention
Build informed risk models to confidently identify and categorize suspicious events and bad-faith actors.
Know your customer
Streamline customer onboarding and transactions by focusing fraud mitigation efforts towards your most risky users.
"PDL's ability to link individual person data to fresh and accurate B2B data through unique APIs proved a perfect match for the challenges facing commercial credit vendors in this time of accelerating online and offline entrepreneurship."
Leading Credit Vendor in Healthcare
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»Built for developers, by developers
Our easy to use RESTful API and SDKs let you get started in a few lines of code
1import requests, json
2
3# Set your API key
4API_KEY = "YOUR API KEY"
5
6# Set the Autocomplete API URL
7PDL_URL = "https://api.peopledatalabs.com/v5/autocomplete"
8
9# Create a parameters JSON object
10PARAMS = {
11 "api_key": API_KEY,
12 "field": "school",
13 "text": "stanf",
14 "size": 10,
15 "pretty": True
16}
17
18# Pass the parameters object to the Autocomplete API
19json_response = requests.get(PDL_URL, params=PARAMS).json()
20
21# Print the API response in JSON format
22print(json_response)How does it work?
Our Person Identify API is built to allow you to find the right people at the right time.
Provide broad information
Input information you have on an individual, even if it is not unique. The list of supported inputs includes names, email addresses, company information, profiles, and much more.
Find the matching profiles from our Person Dataset
The API cleans the input parameter values, and searches for the profiles most likely associated.
API returns the full profile of the best matching record
Retrieve up to 20 of the best matching profiles, ranked by their match score. If no match is found, it could indicate identify fraud.
Stay ahead of regulatory compliance
We source our data through our Data Union, a proprietary data-sharing co-op, as well as through publicly available data sources.
Learn more about our data-sourcing practices
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