---
title: "Create a person"
method: POST
path: "/v5/persons"
tags: ["Persons"]
---

# Create a person

`POST /v5/persons`

Creates a new person profile in the Extole platform and returns the persisted record with its server-assigned id. Use this to provision person profiles outside of the normal event-tracking flow (e.g. bulk imports).

## Request body

- PersonRequest — Request body for creating or updating a person profile.
  - `identity_key_value` string — Value of the primary identity key for the person. Omit to leave the current value unchanged.

## Response `200`

Successful response

- PersonResponse — Person profile returned by the Extole platform.
  - `id` string, required — Extole-assigned unique identifier for this person.
  - `identity_id` string, required — Identifier within the identity store that represents this person's merged profile.
  - `identity_key` IdentityKey, required — Name of the identity key used to look up or create this person.
    - `name` string
  - `identity_key_value` string, required — Value of the identity key for this person.
  - `locale` PersonLocaleResponse, required
    - `last_browser` string — BCP 47 locale tag last detected from the person's browser. Absent if not yet observed.
    - `user_specified` string — BCP 47 locale tag explicitly set by the person. Absent if not specified.
  - `version` string, required — Optimistic-concurrency version token for the person record.

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Unauthorized
- `402` — Payment Required
- `403` — Forbidden
- `415` — Unsupported Media Type
- `429` — Too Many Requests

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