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Search People

Search professional profiles using advanced filters or a lookalike profile. Returns matching people with their details. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Read only
  • API key
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's DataForB2B account once, then configure and run Search People from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "dataforb2b-search-people",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    dataforb2b: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    filters: "Filters",
    lookalikeProfile: "Lookalike Profile",
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Search People inputs
Property Type Description
filters Filters object
Filter object with op (and|or) and conditions array. Each condition: { column, type, value }. E.g. { "op": "and", "conditions": [{ "column": "current_title", "type": "like", "value": "Engineer" }] }
Optional
lookalikeProfile Lookalike Profile string
LinkedIn URL or public_id of a profile to find similar people. Mutually exclusive with filters.
Optional
lookalikeUseCase Lookalike Use Case string
Use case context for lookalike search.
Optional
count Count integer
Number of results to return (default: 25, max: 1000).
Optional
offset Offset integer
Pagination offset (default: 0).
Optional
enrichLive Enrich Live boolean
Whether to enrich results with live data (default: true).
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
dataforb2b-search-people
Version
0.0.2
App
DataForB2B
Authentication
API key
Read-only
Yes
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes