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Contact Intelligence API · v1

Find the person
behind the profile.

Pass a LinkedIn or GitHub handle. Get back verified emails, phone numbers, and cross-referenced social profiles — in one API call.

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No credit card · 6¢ / lookup at scale · Credits never expire
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Type a GitHub handle.

● live · /api/v1/people
try:
← 200 OK · 312ms 
{
  "github_id": 2741,
  "github_login": "dhh",
  "personal_email_addresses": [
    "david@hey.com"
  ],
  "work_email_addresses": [
    "david@loudthinking.com",
    "david@basecamp.com"
  ]
}
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RAMP vercel RETOOL linear POSTHOG supabase
240M+
Profiles indexed
Profiles indexed
73%
Hit rate on engineering profiles
Hit rate
<2s
Median email verification
Email verification
6¢
Per lookup at scale
Per lookup at scale

Index count and hit rate come from PeopleDB's own index and lookup logs as of April 2026; the hit rate is the share of lookups on engineering profiles that returned at least one email. Verification time is the median for the SMTP endpoint.

What you get

One call.
Full picture.

PeopleDB is a contact intelligence API: pass a LinkedIn or GitHub identifier, get back one verified contact record with emails, phone numbers, and social profiles. Records are cross-referenced and deduplicated before they reach you, so a stale address does not become a bounce in your pipeline. New to the category? The enrichment guide explains what to measure before choosing any provider.

01 Email addresses

Deduplicated across multiple sources. Auto-classified into personal vs work.

Personal vs work, deduplicated.

personal_email_addresses[]
02 Phone numbers

Direct dial numbers, sourced and normalized from multiple providers.

Direct dial, normalized.

phone_numbers[]
03 Social profiles

GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter — cross-referenced. Look up by any identifier.

GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter — cross-referenced.

github_login, linkedin_id
04 Email verification

Separate SMTP validation endpoint. Confirms deliverability before you send.

SMTP validation before you send.

/email_verifications
The unfair advantage

Developers leave email addresses
in their commit history.

We reconstruct email addresses from the public GitHub event archive and match them against commit author names — surfacing contact data that never lands on a resume or in a contact directory.

For engineering, product, and design roles, GitHub commit extraction surfaces contact data in a significant share of profiles where conventional enrichment returns nothing.

Read the technical breakdown → · or try the GitHub lookup tool
$ git log --format='%ae' --author='dhh'
david@hey.com personal
david@loudthinking.com work
david@basecamp.com work
dhh@37signals.com work
Pay per lookup

No seats. No subscriptions.
Credits never expire.

No seats.
Credits never expire.

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$15
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Need more than 50,000 lookups? Contact us for a custom contract.
How we compare

Built for pay-as-you-go teams that ship.

PeopleDB Clearbit Apollo
Pay per lookup 6¢ – 15¢ $99+/mo $49+/mo seat
Credits expire Never Monthly reset Monthly reset
GitHub commit lookup Yes — —
API-first Yes Yes Partial
No seat minimums Yes — —
Comparing options? See detailed breakdowns: vs. Clearbit · vs. Apollo · vs. ContactOut · vs. Hunter

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