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Forager glossary terms: Account ID, API key, credits, person ID and data feedForager glossary terms: Account ID, API key, credits, person ID and data feed
Terms as used in these docs.
The ID of your Forager account. It goes in the path of most API requests as {account_id}. Find it on the My Account page of the Forager Web App.
The secret you send in the X-API-KEY header to authenticate API requests. Create one in the Forager Web App. Credits are charged to the account the key belongs to. See Authentication.
The unit Forager charges for API requests. Each request type uses a set number of credits. See Credit pricing.
The numeric ID of a person record in the Forager dataset. Request bodies use it as person_id. Person role search returns it as person.id on each result; the top-level id of a result is the role, not the person. See Recipes.
The slug in a LinkedIn profile URL (linkedin.com/in/<slug>/). Several endpoints accept it as linkedin_public_identifier to identify a person. For organizations it is the slug in linkedin.com/company/<slug>/.
Endpoints that turn free text (industries, organizations, organization keywords, locations, person skills, web technologies) into the IDs that the search endpoints accept as filters. See Autocomplete.
A search for people by role: title, description, current or past role, dates, person and organization attributes. See Person role search.
A search variant that returns match counts for a query instead of the full result set. For example, Person role search totals.
An asynchronous work email lookup. Submitting returns a job_id and a status_check_url; you poll until status is completed or failed. A bulk submission returns a batch_id instead. See Work Emails.
An optional https URL on work email lookups. Forager POSTs the results there when the job or batch completes, so you do not need to poll.
Bulk people, company and job datasets delivered as files under an annual license, as opposed to API requests. See Data Feed V2 Overview.
The property of each data feed record that holds the JSON object described by the schema.
Last modified on October 28, 2026