Search organisations, people, or both

A query that is a name ranks well-known and gold records whose name, legal name or alias matches first, then exact names, then other matches. A one-letter word is ignored; a person search needs at least one word or filter. limit and offset are clamped, and the applied values come back in meta.

get/api/v1/search

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.datagalactica.com
  • URL: https://api.datagalactica.com/api/v1/search
  • Auth: one of:
    • HTTP bearer
    • API key in header X-API-Key
    • API key in header Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key
    • OAuth 2 (authorization code, authorization URL https://datagalactica.com/oauth/authorize, token URL https://datagalactica.com/oauth/token, scopes: api)

Query parameters

type'company' | 'person' | 'all'

company (default), person, or all (both, merged by match then grade then prominence; limit applies per type)

qstring
Example:infosys

Words to match in names and text

countrystring
Example:IN

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code

citystring
Example:pune

City name

regionstring

State or region

industrystring
Example:J

Organisations: ISIC Rev.4 section letter (J) or 2-digit division (62)

size'micro' | 'small' | 'medium' | 'large' | 'enterprise'

Organisations: size band

status'operating' | 'closed'

Organisations: operating status

kind'company' | 'nonprofit' | 'education' | 'government'

Organisations: kind

hiring'true'

Organisations: true = open roles on record

looking_forstring

People: what they say they are open to, e.g. full-time job, internship

skillstring
Example:python

People: a skill they list

degreestring

People: degree

collegestring

People: college

employerstring

People: employer

intereststring

People: interest

occupationstring

People: occupation

functionstring

People: engineering, product, design, sales, marketing, finance, operations, people, legal, education, healthcare, research, customer, administration, media, public service, leadership

senioritystring

People: founder, executive, director, manager, senior, professional, entry, student

limitinteger

1 to 50, default 20

offsetinteger

0 to 500, default 0

Response

ok

okunknown

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "results": [
      {
        "id": "DGC-8SFS42RSWAX9"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.