API reference / People writes

Endorse a skill

Written and maintained by The ProspectAPIs team

POST/v1/people/endorse

POST /v1/people/endorse is the ProspectAPIs operation endorseSkill, in the People writes group of the REST API. Endorse one of a person's listed skills, named as GET /v1/people/skills lists it. $0.005 per action. A skill you already endorsed answers already: true with nothing sent again. Acts on your own connected account (connect one first with POST /v1/accounts/session). Billed per call once the write product is live; while it is not yet on sale the call is free (GET /pricing reports people_writes.available). While GET /pricing does not list this route in people_writes.available_routes it answers 503 temporarily_unavailable and nothing is charged. Cost: Not available yet. Send your API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.

The quickstart shows this call in context, next to the first requests most integrations make.

Parameters

Request body

JSON. Give the person_ref and the skill name.

{
  "person_ref": "person ref",
  "skill": "skill"
}

Responses

Every error answers with the same JSON body, an error string and sometimes a code; the errors page lists each status and when it happens. A per-key 429 carries Retry-After; see rate limits.

200 response fields

Done. Our neutral confirmation. The body is a PeopleWriteResult.

Code samples

Each sample sends the same request. Set PROSPECTAPIS_KEY in your environment first. Values come from the spec's examples; replace them with your own.

curl -X POST https://api.prospectapis.com/v1/people/endorse \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PROSPECTAPIS_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "person_ref": "person ref", "skill": "skill" }'

const res = await fetch("https://api.prospectapis.com/v1/people/endorse", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PROSPECTAPIS_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "person_ref": "person ref",
    "skill": "skill"
  }),
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status}: ${(await res.json().catch(() => ({}))).error ?? res.statusText}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import os, requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.prospectapis.com/v1/people/endorse",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PROSPECTAPIS_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "person_ref": "person ref",
        "skill": "skill",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
res.raise_for_status()
data = res.json()
print(data)

Billing

Billing reserves before it serves: the call holds what it may cost, serves at most what that hold covers, and refunds the rest when the response closes. Any non-2xx answer refunds the whole hold, so a failed call costs nothing. The response reports your balance in X-Credits-Remaining.

Related

Previous operation: Delete your comment. Next operation: Read a person's skills (live). Every operation, grouped by area, is on the API reference index.

Create a free account to get a key, then run the samples above with your own values (this call acts for real, so use real inputs).