People Search

Exa

Find professional profile pages using a natural-language description.

Capability: People discovery
Current price: $0.0098/search
Availability: Ready to run

What this API does

Search Exa's people index using a role, location, company or other profile description. Returns profile titles, source URLs and optional page text. The first ten results share one search charge; additional returned results are charged separately. This searches indexed profiles; email and phone enrichment are separate tools. The worked example shows selected fields from a recorded response, with at most the first item of each list.

Agents select this operation with tool ID exa.people-search, then check its current inputs and price before a run.

Inputs and outputs

Input

numResultsinteger · optional

Value supplied for num results.

minimum: 1 · maximum: 100

querystring · required

Search terms used to find relevant records.

minLength: 1

textboolean · optional

Value supplied for text.

Output

resultsarray

Returned results value.

Example request and output

Inspect returns this reviewed example, its estimated cost and the current input schema. Run calculates the estimate for your actual input.

Request

{
  "tool_id": "exa.people-search",
  "input": {
    "text": true,
    "query": "head of security at a fintech in London",
    "numResults": 1
  }
}

Output

{
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "https://exa.ai/library/person/k1kw1tphxld",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanjohndowling",
      "title": "Ryan Dowling"
    }
  ]
}

Errors and limitations

invalid_input: A query is required.example: {"query":"founders of UK climate technology companies","numResults":5}

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