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Find Email

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Find a professional email address from a LinkedIn URL or full name and company domain, then receive the result by webhook.

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Introduction

The Find Email endpoint discovers professional email addresses for a person. You can identify the person with a LinkedIn profile URL, or with their full name and company domain. Processing is asynchronous: the API acknowledges the request with a webhookId, then you retrieve the result by polling (recommended, no public endpoint required) or through a webhook callback (advanced, push delivery).

Use this endpoint when you need an email address for outreach or CRM enrichment. For push delivery, configure a workspace webhook URL in Settings > Webhooks, or provide webhookUrl in the request.

Note

Async, not real-time. We aim to deliver each result in under 15 seconds, but it can take tens of minutes depending on conditions. Built to update databases and feed async pipelines, not to back a synchronous request a user is waiting on. See Polling for delivery details.

Note

Every email we return is verified. Each candidate address goes through our own validation process, then through a waterfall of professional verification providers chosen among the best on the market: we only return addresses that clear both. We monitor these providers regularly to select the best one when needed, and because the market evolves quickly, we continuously evaluate new vendors to reinforce this waterfall.

Authorization

apikey string required
Your API key from the developer dashboard. Pass it in the Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY header.

Request body

Choose one lookup strategy. Use either a LinkedIn profile URL, or a full name with a company domain. The split firstName + lastName form is also accepted.

url string conditional
Public LinkedIn profile URL, such as https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe. Use this for the URL strategy.
fullName string conditional
Person’s full name, such as Jane Doe. Use this with companyDomain.
firstName string conditional
Person’s first name. Use this with lastName and companyDomain instead of fullName.
lastName string conditional
Person’s last name. Use this with firstName and companyDomain instead of fullName.
companyDomain string conditional
Company domain, such as acme.com. Required for the name-based strategies.
webhookUrl string
HTTPS URL that receives the callback. Omit it to retrieve the result by polling instead.

Note

The request must contain url, or fullName + companyDomain, or firstName + lastName + companyDomain.

Response structure

This endpoint replies immediately with a webhookId. You then have two ways to retrieve the actual result:

  1. Polling (recommended). Call GET /v2/webhooks/:webhookId until the status is succeeded. No webhook URL needed. See the Polling guide.
  2. Webhook callback (advanced). If you provided a webhookUrl (or a workspace default is configured), the gateway POSTs the emails to that URL once the lookup completes. See Webhook callback payload (advanced) below.
success boolean
true if the job was created successfully
dataobject
Initial job acknowledgement. Save the webhookId to retrieve the result via polling (GET /v2/webhooks/:webhookId) or to correlate an upcoming webhook callback (null on error responses).
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status string
Job status, always "created" for the initial response
webhookId string
Unique identifier (UUID). Save it. Use it to poll the result at GET /v2/webhooks/:webhookId, or to correlate an incoming webhook callback.
pollUrl string
Convenience hint pointing to the polling endpoint for this job (e.g. /v2/webhooks/{webhookId}).
error null
Always null on success
quotasobject
Credits and rate limit usage after this request
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creditsConsumed number
Credits consumed by this request
workspaceobject
Workspace-level limits
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id string
Your workspace identifier
hasUnlimitedCredits boolean
Whether workspace credits are unlimited
allowDailyOvercost boolean
Whether the workspace may exceed its daily cap
creditsobject
Credit balance
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total number
Total credits in your plan
used number
Credits consumed so far
left number
Remaining credits
dailyLimitobject
Daily request limit (null if not configured)
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limit number
Maximum requests per day
used number
Requests made today
left number
Remaining requests today
nextReset string
When the daily window resets (ISO 8601)
minuteRateLimitobject
Per-minute rate limit
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limit number
Maximum requests per minute
used number
Requests made in the current minute
left number
Remaining requests in the current minute
nextReset string
When the minute window resets (ISO 8601)
keyobject
API key-level limits (null when request is from dashboard)
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id string
API key identifier
dailyLimitobject
Daily limit for this key (null if not configured)
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limit number
Maximum requests per day
used number
Requests made today
left number
Remaining requests today
nextReset string
When the daily window resets (ISO 8601)
minuteRateLimitobject
Minute rate limit for this key
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limit number
Maximum requests per minute
used number
Requests made in the current minute
left number
Remaining requests in the current minute
nextReset string
When the minute window resets (ISO 8601)
metadataobject
Request tracking information
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requestId string
Unique identifier for this request
executionTimeMs number
Total execution time in milliseconds

Webhook callback payload (advanced)

When the lookup succeeds, ReverseContact sends a JSON POST request to your webhookUrl. The callback is not wrapped in the V2 response envelope. It always includes the webhookId from the initial acknowledgement and a data value.

Success payload
Webhook callback (success)
{
  "webhookId": "b8c9d0e1-f2a3-4b4c-5d6e-7f8091a2b3c4",
  "data": [
    {
      "value": "[email protected]",
      "type": "professional"
    }
  ]
}
dataobject
One entry per email address discovered for the person.
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value string
The discovered email address
type string
Email category, typically professional

Webhook callback errors (advanced)

When the lookup cannot return an email, data is not an array. Instead, it contains an errorCode identifying the failure reason:

Error payload
Webhook callback (error)
{
  "webhookId": "b8c9d0e1-f2a3-4b4c-5d6e-7f8091a2b3c4",
  "data": {
    "errorCode": "email-not-found"
  }
}

data.errorCode will be one of the following values:

Code Billed Description
email-not-found No No email address was discovered for the person
person-not-found No No matching person was found for the supplied identifiers
invalid-request No The lookup input is malformed or does not match an accepted form
fetch-data-error No The lookup failed while fetching data; safe to retry
webhook-url-invalid Yes The callback URL returned a 4xx response
webhook-url-errored Yes The callback URL returned a 5xx response or a network error
webhook-url-timeout Yes The callback URL did not respond in time
webhook-url-unreachable Yes The callback URL could not be reached

Note

The lookup costs 3 credits only when an email is found. A lookup that returns email-not-found, person-not-found, invalid-request, or fetch-data-error costs 0 credits. A delivery failure remains billed when the email was successfully found.

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