peopledatalabs

People Data Labs JS Library

A tiny, universal JS client for the People Data Labs API.

This is a simple JavaScript client library to access the various API endpoints provided by People Data Labs.

This library bundles up PDL API requests into simple function calls, making it easy to integrate into your projects. You can use the various API endpoints to access up-to-date, real-world data from our massive Person and Company Datasets.

✨ Features

• Tiny <2KB size gzip
• Works in Node.js and in Browser
• Supports all People Data Labs API endpoints

Table of Contents

• 🔧 Installation
• 🚀 Usage
• 🌐 Endpoints
• 📘 Documentation
  • Special Note about Search API Support

🔧 Installation

1. Pull the package from the npm repository:

yarn add peopledatalabs

or

npm i peopledatalabs

1. Sign up for a free PDL API key

🚀 Usage

First, create the PDLJS client:

import PDLJS from 'peopledatalabs';

const PDLJSClient = new PDLJS({apiKey: "YOUR API KEY"})

Then, send requests to any PDL API Endpoint:

Getting Person Data

// By Enrichment
PDLJSClient.person.enrichment({ phone: '4155688415' }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

// By Search (SQL)
const sqlQuery = "SELECT * FROM person WHERE location_country='mexico' AND job_title_role='health'AND phone_numbers IS NOT NULL;"

PDLJSClient.person.search.sql({ searchQuery: sqlQuery, size: 10 }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data['total']);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

// By Search (Elasticsearch)
const esQuery = {
  query: {
    bool: {
      must:[
        {term: {location_country: "mexico"}},
        {term: {job_title_role: "health"}},
        {exists: {field: "phone_numbers"}}
      ]
    }
  }
}

PDLJSClient.person.search.elastic({ searchQuery: esQuery, size: 10 }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data['total']);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

// By PDL_ID
PDLJSClient.person.retrieve('qEnOZ5Oh0poWnQ1luFBfVw_0000').then((data) => {
  console.log(data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

// By Fuzzy Enrichment
PDLJSClient.person.identify({ name: 'sean thorne' }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

Getting Company Data

// By Enrichment
PDLJSClient.company.enrichment({ website: 'peopledatalabs.com' }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

// By Search (SQL)
const sqlQuery = "SELECT * FROM company WHERE tags='big data' AND industry='financial services' AND location.country='united states';"

PDLJSClient.company.search.sql({ searchQuery: sqlQuery, size: 10 }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data['total']);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

// By Search (Elasticsearch)
const esQuery = {
  query: {
    bool: {
      must:[
        {term: {tags: "big data"}},
        {term: {industry: "financial services"}},
        {term: {location_country: "united states"}}
      ]
    }
  }
}

PDLJSClient.company.search.elastic({ searchQuery: esQuery, size: 10 }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data['total']);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

Using Supporting APIs

// Get Autocomplete Suggestions
PDLJSClient.autocomplete({ field: 'title', text: 'full', size: 10 }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

// Clean Raw Company Strings
PDLJSClient.company.cleaner({ name: 'peOple DaTa LabS' }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

// Clean Raw Location Strings
PDLJSClient.location.cleaner({ location: '455 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94105, US' }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

// Clean Raw School Strings
PDLJSClient.school.cleaner({ name: 'university of oregon' }).then((data) => {
  console.log(data);
}).catch((error) => {
  console.log(error);
});

🌐 Endpoints

Person Endpoints

API Endpoint	PDLJS Function
Person Enrichment API	PDLJS.person.enrichment(...params)
Person Search API	SQL: PDLJS.person.search.sql(...params) Elasticsearch: PDLJS.person.search.elastic(...params)
Person Retrieve API	PDLJS.person.retrieve(...params)
Person Identify API	PDLJS.person.identify(...params)

Company Endpoints

API Endpoint	PDLJS Function
Company Enrichment API	PDLJS.company.enrichment(...params)
Company Search API	SQL: PDLJS.company.search.sql(...params) Elasticsearch: PDLJS.company.search.elastic(...params)

Supporting Endpoints

API Endpoint	PDLJS Function
Autocomplete API	PDLJS.autocomplete(...params)
Company Cleaner API	PDLJS.company.cleaner(...params)
Location Cleaner API	PDLJS.location.cleaner(...params)
School Cleaner API	PDLJS.school.cleaner(...params)

📘 Documentation

All of our API endpoints are documented at: https://docs.peopledatalabs.com/

These docs describe the supported input parameters, output responses and also provide additional technical context.

As illustrated in the Endpoints section above, each of our API endpoints is mapped to a specific method in the PDLJS class. For each of these class methods, all function inputs are mapped as input parameters to the respective API endpoint, meaning that you can use the API documentation linked above to determine the input parameters for each endpoint.

As an example:

The following is valid because name is a supported input parameter to the Person Identify API:

PDLJS.person.identify({ name: 'sean thorne' })

Conversely, this would be invalid because fake_parameter is not an input parameter to the Person Identify API:

PDLJS.person.identify({ fake_parameter: 'anything' })

Special Note about Search API Support

Our Person Search API and Company Search API endpoints both support two types of query syntax: you can construct search queries using either SQL or Elasticsearch syntax.

In the PDLJS class, the person and company search functions are broken out into two syntax-specific methods as follows:

Data Type	Search Query Syntax	Function
Person	SQL	PDLJS.person.search.sql(...params)
Person	Elasticsearch	PDLJS.person.search.elastic(...params)
Company	SQL	PDLJS.company.search.sql(...params)
Company	Elasticsearch	PDLJS.company.search.elastic(...params)

You can pass your query to these methods using the special searchQuery function argument, as shown in the following example:

const sqlQuery = "SELECT * FROM company WHERE website='peopledatalabs.com';"

PDLJSClient.company.search.sql({ searchQuery: sqlQuery, size: 10 }).then((data) => {
 console.log(data['total']);
}).catch((error) => {
 console.log(error);
});