API reference / People reads

Read a person's posts (live)

Written and maintained by The ProspectAPIs team

GET/v1/people/posts

GET /v1/people/posts is the ProspectAPIs operation getPeoplePosts, in the People reads group of the REST API. Read a person's recent public posts. Fetched fresh at request time, not from a stored cache. $0.012 per live read. Page with cursor or start. Billed per call once the reads are live; while they are not yet on sale the call is free (GET /pricing reports people_reads.available). Cost: $0.012 per live read. 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

An unknown query parameter is refused with a 400 rather than ignored, so a typo never widens a search you pay for.

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

The person's recent posts and a page cursor, read fresh. The body is a PeopleReadResult.

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 -G https://api.prospectapis.com/v1/people/posts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PROSPECTAPIS_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "person_ref=person ref"

const params = new URLSearchParams({ person_ref: "person ref" });
const res = await fetch(`https://api.prospectapis.com/v1/people/posts?${params}`, {
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PROSPECTAPIS_KEY}` },
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status}: ${(await res.json().catch(() => ({}))).error ?? res.statusText}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import os, requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://api.prospectapis.com/v1/people/posts",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PROSPECTAPIS_KEY']}"},
    params={"person_ref": "person ref"},
    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: Search people (live). Next operation: Read a post's engagers (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.