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Contact enrichment: an identifier returns a full person record with name, headline, roles and educationContact enrichment: an identifier returns a full person record with name, headline, roles and education
Use this when you already know who a person is and want their full record from the Forager dataset.

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Before you start

  • An API key and your Account ID. See Create an account.
  • One identifier for the person: a LinkedIn public identifier (the slug in linkedin.com/in/<slug>/) or a Forager ID (person_id).

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Look up the person

Send a POST to Person detail lookup with either linkedin_public_identifier or person_id.
Set FORAGER_API_KEY and FORAGER_ACCOUNT_ID in your shell first, as in the quickstart. See Authentication. Change the identifier, or switch to the reverse lookup by email, to see the request in each language:

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Read the response

The response is one person record: identity fields, location, linkedin_info, then roles (newest first), educations and the other profile lists, which are empty arrays when the profile has none. Click a field to see its type and meaning. The values are illustrative, not a real record.

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How the lookups fit together

Every lookup starts from something that identifies the person. The person record carries an id, which the phone and personal email lookups accept as person_id. The work email lookup does not take a person_id: send a LinkedIn handle, or a first name, last name and company domain.
Enrichment flow: a LinkedIn handle, email or phone number returns a person record with an id; the id feeds the phone and personal email lookups, and a name with a company domain goes straight to the asynchronous work email lookupEnrichment flow: a LinkedIn handle, email or phone number returns a person record with an id; the id feeds the phone and personal email lookups, and a name with a company domain goes straight to the asynchronous work email lookup
If you already have a LinkedIn handle or a person_id and only need contact data, skip the person lookup and call the contact lookup directly.

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Next steps

Last modified on November 1, 2026