---
title: "Start social media lookup"
method: POST
path: "/v1/social-media-lookup/trigger"
tags: ["Social media lookup"]
---

# Start social media lookup

`POST /v1/social-media-lookup/trigger`

Use our AI agent to find social media profiles (Twitter, Instagram) for a person using name and optional context like LinkedIn URL, work email, company, and job title.

<span>⚡ <strong>Rate limit:</strong> 300 requests per 1 minute</span>

<span>💰 <strong>Cost:</strong> 3 credits per platform searched&nbsp;<span title="Pricing shown is default pricing. Actual pricing may vary.">ⓘ</span></span>

## Request body

- object
  - `apiKey` string, required — Your Fiber API key
  - `overallContext` string, nullable — Optional context about the person to help disambiguation (e.g. "AI researcher at OpenAI"). Useful for common names. Max 1000 characters.
  - `platforms` string[] — Which social media platforms to search. Defaults to Twitter. Supported: TWITTER, INSTAGRAM.
  - `person` union, required — The person to look up.
    - object
      - `customerProvidedId` string, nullable — Your external ID for this person, echoed back in the response for joining results to your dataset.
      - `inputType` 'linkedinUrl', required
      - `linkedinUrl` string, required — LinkedIn profile URL, slug, or entity URN (e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/karpathy or just 'karpathy').
    - object
      - `customerProvidedId` string, nullable — Your external ID for this person, echoed back in the response for joining results to your dataset.
      - `inputType` 'linkedinUserId', required
      - `linkedinUserId` string, required — LinkedIn numeric user ID for this person.
    - object
      - `customerProvidedId` string, nullable — Your external ID for this person, echoed back in the response for joining results to your dataset.
      - `inputType` 'manual', required
      - `fullName` string, required — The full name of the person to look up.
      - `company` string, nullable — Current company, used to disambiguate common names.
      - `jobTitle` string, nullable — Current job title.
      - `workEmail` string, email, nullable — Work email address.
      - `linkedinUrl` string, uri, nullable — LinkedIn profile URL for additional context (e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/karpathy).

## Response `200`

Default Response

- object
  - `output` object, required
    - `socialMediaFinderRunId` string, required — The ID of the social media finder run. Provide this to the polling endpoint to get results.
  - `chargeInfo` union, required
    - object — Credits were charged immediately for this operation
      - `method` 'charged-now', required
      - `creditsCharged` number, required
      - `lowCreditAlert` object, nullable — Contains a link to get more credits, a warning message, and the remaining credit count.
        - `getMoreCreditsUrl` string, uri, required — URL to top up credits or restart billing cycle to get fresh credits.
        - `message` string, required — Human-readable credits warning.
        - `availableCredits` number, required — Number of credits remaining in the current billing period.
    - object — Credits will be charged after the operation completes
      - `method` 'charging-later', required
      - `message` string, required
      - `lowCreditAlert` object, nullable — Contains a link to get more credits, a warning message, and the remaining credit count.
        - `getMoreCreditsUrl` string, uri, required — URL to top up credits or restart billing cycle to get fresh credits.
        - `message` string, required — Human-readable credits warning.
        - `availableCredits` number, required — Number of credits remaining in the current billing period.
    - object — Credits that were charged for an asynchronous operation
      - `method` 'charged-for-async-process', required
      - `creditsCharged` number, required
      - `message` string, required
      - `lowCreditAlert` object, nullable — Contains a link to get more credits, a warning message, and the remaining credit count.
        - `getMoreCreditsUrl` string, uri, required — URL to top up credits or restart billing cycle to get fresh credits.
        - `message` string, required — Human-readable credits warning.
        - `availableCredits` number, required — Number of credits remaining in the current billing period.
    - object — No credits were charged for this operation
      - `method` 'free', required
      - `message` string, required
      - `lowCreditAlert` object, nullable — Contains a link to get more credits, a warning message, and the remaining credit count.
        - `getMoreCreditsUrl` string, uri, required — URL to top up credits or restart billing cycle to get fresh credits.
        - `message` string, required — Human-readable credits warning.
        - `availableCredits` number, required — Number of credits remaining in the current billing period.
    - object — Credits were refunded for this operation
      - `method` 'credits-refunded', required
      - `creditsRefunded` number, required
      - `message` string, required
      - `lowCreditAlert` object, nullable — Contains a link to get more credits, a warning message, and the remaining credit count.
        - `getMoreCreditsUrl` string, uri, required — URL to top up credits or restart billing cycle to get fresh credits.
        - `message` string, required — Human-readable credits warning.
        - `availableCredits` number, required — Number of credits remaining in the current billing period.
  - `warnings` object[], nullable — Warnings about extraneous fields in request
    - `field` string, required — Full path to extraneous field (e.g., 'searchParams.ExtraField')
    - `message` string, required — Warning message
  - `advice` string[], nullable — Tips, recommendations, and suggestions for using this API effectively.

## Other responses

- `400` — Default Response
- `401` — Default Response
- `402` — Default Response
- `403` — Default Response
- `404` — Default Response
- `422` — Default Response
- `429` — Default Response
- `500` — Default Response
- `503` — Default Response

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