---
title: "Search PressReference Entities"
method: POST
path: "/data/searches/press_references"
tags: ["Search"]
---

# Search PressReference Entities

`POST /data/searches/press_references`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.crunchbase.com/v4`
- URL: `https://api.crunchbase.com/v4/data/searches/press_references`
- Auth: API key in header `X-cb-user-key`

Can perform more complex filtering based on the query defined in the request body

## Request body

- PressReferenceEntitySearch: EntitySearch for PressReference search
  - `after_id` string, uuid: Used to paginate search results to the next page. after_id should be the uuid of the last item in the current page. May not be provided simultaneously with before_id.
  - `before_id` string, uuid: Used to paginate search results to the previous page. before_id should be the uuid of the first item in the current page. May not be provided simultaneously with after_id.
  - `field_ids` string[], required: The list of field_ids to include in the result
  - `limit` integer: Number of rows to return. Default is 100, min is 1, max is 1000.
  - `order` Order[]: Order in which the search results should be returned
    - `field_id` string, required: Name of the field to sort on
    - `nulls` 'first' | 'last'
    - `sort` 'asc' | 'desc', required
  - `query` Predicate[], required: Search query to perform on the designated entity
    - `field_id` string, required: The field to operate on
    - `operator_id` 'blank' | 'eq' | 'not_eq' | 'gt' | 'gte' | 'lt' | 'lte' | 'starts' | 'contains' | 'not_contains' | 'between' | 'includes' | 'not_includes' | 'includes_all' | 'not_includes_all' | 'domain_eq' | 'not_domain_eq' | 'domain_blank' | 'domain_includes' | 'not_domain_includes', required: Search operations for use in predicates * between - Between. Provide two values in "values" * blank - Is blank. Possible values in "values" is "true" or "false" * contains - Contains * domain_blank - Domain is blank. Possible values in "values" is "true" or "false" * domain_eq - Domain equals * domain_includes - Domain includes any * eq - Equals * gt - Greater than * gte - Greater than or equal to * includes - Includes any * includes_all - Includes all * lt - Less than * lte - Less than or equal to * not_contains - Does not contain * not_domain_eq - Domain not equal * not_domain_includes - Domain does not include * not_eq - Does not equal * not_includes - Does not include * not_includes_all - Does not include all * starts - Starts with
    - `type` 'predicate', required: The type of the query (Predicate)
    - `values` union[]: Values array with data type matching field_id type
      - union
        - string
        - number
        - boolean

## Response `200`

Results are identifiers matching the search query

- object: Search results include PressReference entities
  - `count` integer: Total number of PressReference entities
  - `entities` object[]: List of PressReference entities
    - `properties` PressReference
      - `activity_entities` EntityIdentifier[]: Entities mentioned in the press reference
        - `entity_def_id` 'acquisition' | 'address' | 'category' | 'category_group' | 'degree' | 'diversity_spotlight' | 'event' | 'event_appearance' | 'fund' | 'funding_round' | 'investment' | 'ipo' | 'job' | 'location' | 'organization' | 'ownership' | 'person' | 'press_reference', required
        - `image_id` string
        - `permalink` string
        - `uuid` string, uuid, required: Universally Unique Identifier
        - `value` string
      - `author` string: The author of the press reference
      - `created_at` string, date-time
      - `entity_def_id` 'press_reference': * press_reference - Press Reference
      - `facet_ids` string[]
      - `identifier` EntityIdentifier, required: Every entity in the system has a unique identifier that contains all necessary properties to represent it.
        - `entity_def_id` 'acquisition' | 'address' | 'category' | 'category_group' | 'degree' | 'diversity_spotlight' | 'event' | 'event_appearance' | 'fund' | 'funding_round' | 'investment' | 'ipo' | 'job' | 'location' | 'organization' | 'ownership' | 'person' | 'press_reference', required
        - `image_id` string
        - `permalink` string
        - `uuid` string, uuid, required: Universally Unique Identifier
        - `value` string
      - `language` 'aa' | 'ab' | 'ae' | 'af' | 'ak' | 'am' | 'an' | 'ar' | 'as' | 'av' | 'ay' | 'az' | 'ba' | 'be' | 'bg' | 'bi' | 'bm' | 'bn' | 'bo' | 'br' | 'bs' | 'ca' | 'ce' | 'ch' | 'co' | 'cr' | 'cs' | 'cu' | 'cv' | 'cy' | 'da' | 'de' | 'dv' | 'dz' | 'ee' | 'el' | 'en' | 'eo' | 'es' | 'et' | 'eu' | 'fa' | 'ff' | 'fi' | 'fj' | 'fo' | 'fr' | 'fy' | 'ga' | 'gd' | 'gl' | 'gn' | 'gu' | 'gv' | 'ha' | 'he' | 'hi' | 'ho' | 'hr' | 'ht' | 'hu' | 'hy' | 'hz' | 'ia' | 'id' | 'ie' | 'ig' | 'ii' | 'ik' | 'io' | 'is' | 'it' | 'iu' | 'ja' | 'jv' | 'ka' | 'kg' | 'ki' | 'kj' | 'kk' | 'kl' | 'km' | 'kn' | 'ko' | 'kr' | 'ks' | 'ku' | 'kv' | 'kw' | 'ky' | 'la' | 'lb' | 'lg' | 'li' | 'ln' | 'lo' | 'lt' | 'lu' | 'lv' | 'mg' | 'mh' | 'mi' | 'mk' | 'ml' | 'mn' | 'mr' | 'ms' | 'mt' | 'my' | 'na' | 'nb' | 'nd' | 'ne' | 'ng' | 'nl' | 'nn' | 'no' | 'nr' | 'nv' | 'ny' | 'oc' | 'oj' | 'om' | 'or' | 'os' | 'pa' | 'pi' | 'pl' | 'ps' | 'pt' | 'qu' | 'rm' | 'rn' | 'ro' | 'ru' | 'rw' | 'sa' | 'sc' | 'sd' | 'se' | 'sg' | 'si' | 'sk' | 'sl' | 'sm' | 'sn' | 'so' | 'sq' | 'sr' | 'ss' | 'st' | 'su' | 'sv' | 'sw' | 'ta' | 'te' | 'tg' | 'th' | 'ti' | 'tk' | 'tl' | 'tn' | 'to' | 'tr' | 'ts' | 'tt' | 'tw' | 'ty' | 'ug' | 'uk' | 'ur' | 'uz' | 've' | 'vi' | 'vo' | 'wa' | 'wo' | 'xh' | 'yi' | 'yo' | 'za' | 'zh' | 'zu': The lowercase ISO 639-1 language code for the press reference * aa - Afar * ab - Abkhazian * ae - Avestan * af - Afrikaans * ak - Akan * am - Amharic * an - Aragonese * ar - Arabic * as - Assamese * av - Avaric * ay - Aymara * az - Azerbaijani * ba - Bashkir * be - Belarusian * bg - Bulgarian * bi - Bislama * bm - Bambara * bn - Bengali * bo - Tibetan * br - Breton * bs - Bosnian * ca - Catalan; Valencian * ce - Chechen * ch - Chamorro * co - Corsican * cr - Cree * cs - Czech * cu - Church Slavic; Old Slavonic; Church Slavonic; Old Bulgarian; Old Church Slavonic * cv - Chuvash * cy - Welsh * da - Danish * de - German * dv - Divehi; Dhivehi; Maldivian * dz - Dzongkha * ee - Ewe * el - Modern Greek (1453-) * en - English * eo - Esperanto * es - Spanish; Castilian * et - Estonian * eu - Basque * fa - Persian * ff - Fulah * fi - Finnish * fj - Fijian * fo - Faroese * fr - French * fy - Western Frisian * ga - Irish * gd - Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic * gl - Galician * gn - Guarani * gu - Gujarati * gv - Manx * ha - Hausa * he - Hebrew * hi - Hindi * ho - Hiri Motu * hr - Croatian * ht - Haitian; Haitian Creole * hu - Hungarian * hy - Armenian * hz - Herero * ia - Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) * id - Indonesian * ie - Interlingue; Occidental * ig - Igbo * ii - Sichuan Yi; Nuosu * ik - Inupiaq * io - Ido * is - Icelandic * it - Italian * iu - Inuktitut * ja - Japanese * jv - Javanese * ka - Georgian * kg - Kongo * ki - Kikuyu; Gikuyu * kj - Kuanyama; Kwanyama * kk - Kazakh * kl - Kalaallisut; Greenlandic * km - Central Khmer * kn - Kannada * ko - Korean * kr - Kanuri * ks - Kashmiri * ku - Kurdish * kv - Komi * kw - Cornish * ky - Kirghiz; Kyrgyz * la - Latin * lb - Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch * lg - Ganda * li - Limburgan; Limburger; Limburgish * ln - Lingala * lo - Lao * lt - Lithuanian * lu - Luba-Katanga * lv - Latvian * mg - Malagasy * mh - Marshallese * mi - Maori * mk - Macedonian * ml - Malayalam * mn - Mongolian * mr - Marathi * ms - Malay (macrolanguage) * mt - Maltese * my - Burmese * na - Nauru * nb - Norwegian Bokmål * nd - North Ndebele * ne - Nepali (macrolanguage) * ng - Ndonga * nl - Dutch; Flemish * nn - Norwegian Nynorsk * no - Norwegian * nr - South Ndebele * nv - Navajo; Navaho * ny - Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja * oc - Occitan (post 1500) * oj - Ojibwa * om - Oromo * or - Oriya (macrolanguage) * os - Ossetian; Ossetic * pa - Panjabi; Punjabi * pi - Pali * pl - Polish * ps - Pushto; Pashto * pt - Portuguese * qu - Quechua * rm - Romansh * rn - Rundi * ro - Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan * ru - Russian * rw - Kinyarwanda * sa - Sanskrit * sc - Sardinian * sd - Sindhi * se - Northern Sami * sg - Sango * si - Sinhala; Sinhalese * sk - Slovak * sl - Slovenian * sm - Samoan * sn - Shona * so - Somali * sq - Albanian * sr - Serbian * ss - Swati * st - Sotho, Southern * su - Sundanese * sv - Swedish * sw - Swahili (macrolanguage) * ta - Tamil * te - Telugu * tg - Tajik * th - Thai * ti - Tigrinya * tk - Turkmen * tl - Tagalog * tn - Tswana * to - Tonga (Tonga Islands) * tr - Turkish * ts - Tsonga * tt - Tatar * tw - Twi * ty - Tahitian * ug - Uighur; Uyghur * uk - Ukrainian * ur - Urdu * uz - Uzbek * ve - Venda * vi - Vietnamese * vo - Volapük * wa - Walloon * wo - Wolof * xh - Xhosa * yi - Yiddish * yo - Yoruba * za - Zhuang; Chuang * zh - Chinese * zu - Zulu
      - `posted_on` string, date: Date when the press reference is posted
      - `publisher` string: The publisher of the press reference
      - `thumbnail_url` string
      - `title` string: The title of the press reference
      - `updated_at` string, date-time
      - `url` Link: An object representing both the url and some labeling text for that url
        - `label` string
        - `value` string
      - `uuid` string, uuid
    - `uuid` string, uuid: UUID of the entity

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request
- `404`: Not Found
- `500`: Request Failed

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