Reverse Email Lookup

curl --request POST \
  --url https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/people/by-email \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "email": "barney@example.com"
}
'

{
  "person_id": "per_310bf5c3fda24292309031e0",
  "first_name": "Barney",
  "last_name": "Kelly-Wyatt",
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/barney-kelly-wyatt",
  "company_id": "5e3a7f2b0aa7a3270a55f2a7",
  "score": 8
}

Enrichment

Reverse Email Lookup

What it does

Takes an email address, searches Specter’s People Database and returns the most probable person along with their Specter person ID and core profile fields.

Why you’d use it

When you have an email address and need to resolve it to a Specter person record so you can standardize contacts, enrich them, or link inbound emails to the correct individual in our database.

Key behaviours

Score: The score ranges from 1 to 10, indicating the confidence of the match. A score of 7 or higher generally reflects a reliable match. Scores below 7 should be treated with increasing caution.

This endpoint uses 1 credit per request.

POST

people

by-email

Reverse Email Lookup

curl --request POST \
  --url https://app.tryspecter.com/api/v1/people/by-email \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-API-Key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "email": "barney@example.com"
}
'

{
  "person_id": "per_310bf5c3fda24292309031e0",
  "first_name": "Barney",
  "last_name": "Kelly-Wyatt",
  "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/barney-kelly-wyatt",
  "company_id": "5e3a7f2b0aa7a3270a55f2a7",
  "score": 8
}

Authorizations

X-API-Key

string

header

required

Body

application/json

Request to resolve an email address to a person.

string

required

Email of the person to look up.

Example:

"barney@example.com"

Response

Successful match response containing person details and confidence score.

person_id

string

Example:

"per_310bf5c3fda24292309031e0"

first_name

string

Example:

"Barney"

last_name

string

Example:

"Kelly-Wyatt"

linkedin_url

string

Example:

"https://www.linkedin.com/in/barney-kelly-wyatt"

company_id

string

Example:

"5e3a7f2b0aa7a3270a55f2a7"

score

number<float>

Confidence score for the match (1–10).

Example:

8

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Documentation Index

Authorizations

Body

Response