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How to Find Anyone's Full Profile in Seconds with the Person API

Published Date Sep 1, 2026
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How to Find Anyone's Full Profile in Seconds with the Person API

Finding detailed professional information about a person can be time-consuming

You may have a Profile URL, name, or just a basic identifier, but manually collecting work current job, experience, education, location, social profiles, and other details from different sources takes time.

This is where Person Enrichment API can simplify this whole process.

With EnrichmentAPI's Person API, you can retrieve structured profile information in seconds- making it easier to build prospecting tools, automate research, create people data workflow, or enrich CRM records.

What is Person Enrichment API?

A Person Enrichment API takes a person's profile id and return professional profile information about that individual in structured format.

Instead of manually opening profiles and collecting information field by field, you can make an API request and receive the available profile data in formatted way and JSON.

Depending on the available data, this can include information such as:

  • Full name

  • Current job title

  • Company

  • Email

  • Work experience

  • Education

  • Location

  • Skills

  • and more

How Person Enrichment API Works

The workflow is simple:

Person's Profile URL → Person API → Enriched Profile

We will pass profile URL as parameters to the /person endpoint. You can also test this API directly from the dashboard and read the documentation. To get at dashboard register or sign in yourself.

Person API image

As shown in the image above you can easily try the API directly from the dashboard if you are not a technical person. But if you are developer and want to run it in your Python or Node.js environment, then you can copy the code directly from the Get Code button on dashboard.

Get Code
1import requests
2
3resp = requests.get(
4 "https://api.enrichmentapi.io/person",
5 params={
6 "api_key": "your_api_key",
7 "profile_id": "brianchesky",
8 },
9)
10print(resp.json())

Here we are simply making a GET request to the endpoint https://test.enrichmentapi.io/person with profile_id parameter:

In response, you will get this JSON.

1{
2 "name": "Brian Chesky",
3 "first_name": "Brian",
4 "last_name": "Chesky",
5 "current_company": "Airbnb",
6 "current_role": "Co-founder and CEO",
7 "location": "San Francisco, California, United States",
8 "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianchesky/",
9 "about": "I am one of the founders and CEO of Airbnb.",
10 "skills": [
11 "Co-Founding & Business Bootstrapping",
12 "Executive Management & Corporate Leadership",
13 "The Sharing Economy",
14 "Industrial Design",
15 "Product Marketing",
16 "User Experience (UX) & Design-Driven Development",
17 "\"Founder Mode\" Operations",
18 "Experience Engineering",
19 "Trust and Reputation Systems",
20 "Public Relations & Organic Growth Marketing"
21 ],
22 "education": [
23 {
24 "institution": "Rhode Island School of Design",
25 "degree": "Bachelor of Fine Arts",
26 "field": "Industrial Design",
27 "start_year": 1999,
28 "end_year": 2004
29 }
30 ],
31 "experience": [
32 {
33 "company": "Airbnb",
34 "title": "Co-founder and CEO",
35 "location": "San Francisco, California, United States",
36 "start_date": "2008",
37 "end_date": "Present",
38 "description": "Serves as Co-founder and CEO, setting the vision and strategy for the company. He co-founded the peer-to-peer room and home rental company in 2008 alongside Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia, setting its core vision and product strategy. Sets the overall vision and strategy for the company. Oversees the growth of a platform encompassing over 5 million hosts and facilitating more than 2.5 billion guest arrivals globally. Implements a product-centric management approach—often associated with \"founder mode\"—characterized by deep involvement in design details and elimination of conventional bureaucratic structures like standard product management silos or traditional recurring one-on-ones. Acts as a co-hiring manager for Airbnb’s top 200 roles to oversee critical talent pipelines personally. Spearheads structural tech resets, including hiring a new CTO from Meta to pivot Airbnb into an AI-native company. Steers expansion plans for adjacent offerings such as partner-delivered or integrated services (e.g., equipment rentals, local experiences, or gym passes).",
39 "company_linkedin_id": "airbnb",
40 "company_logo": "https://images.enrichmentapi.io/logo/fbdee674c5323190e4a54ae1da4e6bb5ea85d17d3a69eb6a6c1e83c61e0f7335.jpg"
41 },
42 {
43 "company": "3DID",
44 "title": "Industrial designer and strategist",
45 "location": "Los Angeles, California, United States",
46 "description": "Worked as an industrial designer and strategist at 3DID. Conceptualized consumer goods and products before transitioning to tech entrepreneurship.",
47 "company_linkedin_id": "3did",
48 "company_logo": "https://images.enrichmentapi.io/logo/bbf9e07a512e6980a10031c53463bb434d66779ebdf75859dd9f82ace584c435.png"
49 }
50 ],
51 "connections": "500+ connections",
52 "followers": "260K followers",
53 "is_open_to_work": false,
54 "is_hiring": false,
55 "profile_photo": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C4E03AQHiI5NvGUGoQw/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/profile-displayphoto-shrink_200_200/0/1517693573731?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=SWW4PdWroPBhppKu6Y5juxpK1nj1TKfvYKBNytzWxQI",
56 "background_cover_image_url": "https://images.enrichmentapi.io/person/0effded46f770b54cb12c6f19d1fc9a406057e880b3172633f7683c584e80636.svg",
57 "confidence_score": "high",
58 "data_source": "enriched",
59 "activities": [
60 {
61 "text": "Liked by Brian Chesky",
62 "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ellie-mertz_a-decade-celebrating-my-10-year-work-anniversary-activity-7032163878457266176-fgxP",
63 "image": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/C5622AQER_iA5e61CRQ/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/feedshare-shrink_2048_1536/0/1676598519306?e=2147483647&v=beta&t=ujnOM53IF731ESIHNw_1Uw9GU4QDGyrgwarGLooDF_s",
64 "author": "ellie-mertz"
65 },
66 {
67 "text": "Shared by Brian Chesky",
68 "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/brianchesky_i-remember-this-evening-like-it-was-yesterday-activity-6858654521288212480-qq2b",
69 "image": "https://images.enrichmentapi.io/person/f213d7904fe873b9e5946bbbacff1c7af14df44c366df5f2acf9b63d0eec2640.svg",
70 "author": "brianchesky"
71 },
72 {
73 "text": "Liked by Brian Chesky",
74 "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/airbnb_airbnb-hosts-ring-our-opening-bell-activity-6742815282420699136-cR9n",
75 "image": "https://images.enrichmentapi.io/person/2c478cb6b95e7d3dfe44f0ec67b8e67afaafe0f67b19f625c15f6538f6d55480.jpg",
76 "author": "airbnb"
77 }
78 ],
79 "people_also_viewed": [
80 {
81 "name": "Andres Blank",
82 "location": "Miami, FL",
83 "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andresblank"
84 },
85 {
86 "name": "Eran Ben-Shushan",
87 "location": "New York City Metropolitan Area",
88 "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/eranbenshushan"
89 },
90 {
91 "name": "Cy Scott",
92 "location": "Greater Seattle Area",
93 "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/cyscott"
94 }, and more....
95 ]
96}

The JSON response includes the person’s current role, employment history, education, profile image, and other professional details.

Why Use a Person Enrichment API?

Manually researching people does not scale.

Just imagine you need to enrich 1000 leads, visiting profiles individually, coping information, cleaning it and putting everything in your CRM can take lot of time.

With an API-based workflow, you can:

  • Automate profile enrichment

  • Keep CRM data more complete

  • Reduce manual research

  • Create your own people-data product

If you already have a person's profile URL, the EnrichmentAPI Person API provides a straightforward way to retrieve available profile information in a structured format.

Instead of manually researching every person, you can integrate the API into your application and make profile enrichment part of your existing workflow.

Find a person. Enrich their profile. Put the data to work.