---
title: "Search PitchBook advisors dataset"
method: GET
path: "/datasets/pitchbook-advisors/search"
tags: ["Datasets"]
---

# Search PitchBook advisors dataset

`GET /datasets/pitchbook-advisors/search`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1`
- URL: `https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/datasets/pitchbook-advisors/search`
- Auth: API key in header `x-api-key`

Searches the crawled public PitchBook advisor (service provider — e.g. investment bank, lender, financing advisory firm) profile catalog stored in a search index. Discovered from PitchBook's public sitemap. Sort enum: `relevance`, `name_asc`, `year_founded_desc`, `recently_crawled_desc`. Billing: this search costs 1 credit per record returned, with a minimum of 2 (an empty result costs 2, a full page of 100 costs 100).

## Query parameters

- `q` string
- `service_type` string
- `hq_country` string
- `hq_state` string
- `run_id` string
- `min_year_founded` integer
- `max_year_founded` integer
- `sort` 'relevance' | 'name_asc' | 'year_founded_desc' | 'recently_crawled_desc'
- `page` integer
- `page_size` integer

## Headers

- `x-api-key` string, required

## Response `200`

OK

- DatasetsPitchbookAdvisorsSearchResponseDoc
  - `code` integer
  - `data` DatasetsPitchbookAdvisorsSearchResponse
    - `dataset` string
    - `items` EsPitchbookRecord[]
      - `commitments_count` integer
      - `contact` object
      - `contact_title` string
      - `content_hash` string: ContentHash is an internal fingerprint of this record's content, excluding crawl bookkeeping fields, used to detect whether a re-crawled profile actually changed since it was last stored.
      - `crawled_at` string
      - `crawled_at_ms` integer
      - `description` string
      - `discovery_source` string
      - `employees` integer
      - `exits_count` integer
      - `faqs` EsPitchbookFAQRecord[]
        - `answer` string
        - `question` string
      - `financing_status` string
      - `formerly_known_as` string[]
      - `fund_size` string
      - `fund_status` string
      - `fund_strategy` string: fund
      - `hq_city` string
      - `hq_country` string
      - `hq_state` string
      - `id` string
      - `institution_type` string: limited partner
      - `investments_count` integer
      - `investor_count` integer
      - `investor_type` string: investor
      - `kind` string
      - `latest_deal_type` string
      - `managing_firm_name` string
      - `name` string
      - `other_industries` string[]
      - `overview` object
      - `ownership_status` string
      - `portfolio_count` integer
      - `primary_industry` string
      - `run_id` string
      - `schema_version` integer
      - `seed_rank` integer
      - `service_type` string: advisor
      - `serviced_companies` integer
      - `serviced_deals` integer
      - `sitemap_lastmod` string
      - `source_url` string
      - `status` string: company
      - `tables` EsPitchbookTableRecord[]
        - `columns` string[]
        - `name` string
        - `row_ids` array[]: RowIDs[i][j] is "<kind>/<id>" when Rows[i][j]'s cell links to another PitchBook profile, "" otherwise.
          - string[]
        - `rows` array[]
          - string[]
        - `total` integer
      - `verticals` string[]
      - `vintage_year` integer
      - `website` string
      - `year_founded` integer
    - `page` integer
    - `page_size` integer
    - `sort` string
    - `total` integer
  - `msg` string

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `429`: Too Many Requests
- `500`: Internal Server Error

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