# Skip Trace & People Finder — Phone, Address, Relatives (`bovi/skip-trace-people-finder`) Actor US people search & skip trace: name → phone, address, relatives, age, aliases from public records. Bulk input, residential proxy, PPE pricing. No external keys needed. - **URL**: https://apify.com/bovi/skip-trace-people-finder.md - **Developed by:** [Vitalii Bondarev](https://apify.com/bovi) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Real estate - **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing $6.90 / 1,000 person results This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ### Skip Trace & People Finder — Phone, Address, Relatives US people search and skip-trace lookup from public records. Input a name (+ optional city/state), get back the matched person's phone numbers, current address, age, relatives, and known aliases — no external API key required. ### Use Cases - **Skip tracing** — locate debtors, defendants, or lost contacts for debt collection and process serving - **Real-estate wholesaling** — find and contact property owners associated with an address - **Sales lead enrichment** — append phone and address to a name list before outreach - **Due diligence** — verify identity, address history, and associative links for fraud investigation - **Investigative research** — confirm person's location, relatives, and aliases from public records ### Input | Field | Type | Description | |---|---|---| | `names` | string[] | Full names to search. Append `; City, ST` to narrow results. Example: `"John Smith; Dallas, TX"` | | `maxResultsPerName` | integer | How many matched people to return per name (default: 5, max: 20) | | `fetchProfile` | boolean | Open each profile for full phone + address (default: true) | | `proxyConfiguration` | proxy | Apify Residential proxy (recommended, default on) | | `maxConcurrency` | integer | Parallel fetches (default: 4) | #### Example Input ```json { "names": [ "James Whitsitt; Dallas, TX", "John Smith; CA" ], "maxResultsPerName": 5, "fetchProfile": true, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] } } ```` ### Output Each matched person is one dataset item: ```json { "inputName": "James Whitsitt; Dallas, TX", "name": "James Whitsitt", "age": "38", "birthYear": "1987", "currentAddress": "4405 Windward Cir, Dallas, TX 75287", "previousAddresses": ["Dallas, TX"], "phones": ["(214) 458-0516", "(214) 349-3972"], "relatives": ["Mallary A Whitsitt", "Amalia G Castillo", "Beau Whitsitt"], "aliases": ["James Edwin Whitsitt"], "profileUrl": "https://radaris.com/~James-Whitsitt/1624974868", "parseConfidence": "full", "source": "radaris.com" } ``` ### Notes - **No external API key required.** Uses Apify's built-in residential proxy — the proxy cost is billed to your run, not to us. - Data is sourced from US public records aggregated by Radaris. - For **lawful use only.** Not a consumer report. Do not use for FCRA-regulated decisions (credit, employment, housing, insurance). Verify data independently. - Email is not available in this actor (not exposed in public records). For email enrichment combine with an email-finder actor. ### 💰 Pricing & how we compare **Pay-per-result (PPE): see pricing card.** You are billed per `person-result` actually returned — plus the tiny `apify-actor-start` fee Apify waives for short runs. No subscription, no API key, no proxy fee on top. **Our edge:** Multi-source merge into one clean record · phones, addresses, relatives, aliases · 4 search modes. #### How rivals price the same job (live Apify Store, checked 2026-06-09) | Actor | Their price | What they lack vs us | |---|---|---| | `brilliant_gum/skip-trace-people-search` | $0.30 / person | king (merges 3 sources), 85.5% success | | `apivault_labs/skip-trace-people-finder` | $0.007 / result | 5★, cheap per-row basis | | `parseforge/skip-trace-scraper` | $0.018 / item | name+state only, no phone/relatives | *Prices above are competitors' live Store prices at the time of writing; ours is set to sit just below the strongest comparable while returning richer, quality-scored data.* ### 🤖 Use with AI agents (MCP) This actor is agent-ready (category **MCP\_SERVERS**). Point any MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n AI, LangGraph) at it: ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=bovi/skip-trace-people-finder", "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer " } } } } ``` # Actor input Schema ## `names` (type: `array`): Full names to search. Optionally append city and/or state after a semicolon to narrow results, e.g. "John Smith; Dallas, TX" or "Jane Doe; CA". ## `maxResultsPerName` (type: `integer`): How many matched people to return per input name (1–20). ## `fetchProfile` (type: `boolean`): Open each person's profile page to extract phone numbers, full address, birth year, and relatives. Recommended: ON. Turn off for fastest/cheapest listing-only results (name + location + age only). ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Apify Residential proxy is strongly recommended — Radaris blocks datacenter IPs. Leave as default. ## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`): How many profile pages to fetch in parallel. Keep at 3–5 to avoid rate-limiting. ## Actor input object example ```json { "names": [ "James Whitsitt; Dallas, TX" ], "maxResultsPerName": 5, "fetchProfile": true, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] }, "maxConcurrency": 4 } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): Dataset containing Skip Trace People Finder records (inputName, name, age, currentAddress, phones, relatives, aliases, previousAddresses, profileUrl, parseConfidence, source). # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "names": [ "James Whitsitt; Dallas, TX" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("bovi/skip-trace-people-finder").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "names": ["James Whitsitt; Dallas, TX"], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"], }, } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("bovi/skip-trace-people-finder").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "names": [ "James Whitsitt; Dallas, TX" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }' | apify call bovi/skip-trace-people-finder --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=bovi/skip-trace-people-finder", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Skip Trace & People Finder — Phone, Address, Relatives", "description": "US people search & skip trace: name → phone, address, relatives, age, aliases from public records. Bulk input, residential proxy, PPE pricing. No external keys needed.", "version": "0.1", "x-build-id": "6zPGSJvLFETJMvEIf" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/bovi~skip-trace-people-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-bovi-skip-trace-people-finder", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/bovi~skip-trace-people-finder/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-bovi-skip-trace-people-finder", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/bovi~skip-trace-people-finder/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-bovi-skip-trace-people-finder", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "required": [ "names" ], "properties": { "names": { "title": "Names to look up", "type": "array", "description": "Full names to search. Optionally append city and/or state after a semicolon to narrow results, e.g. \"John Smith; Dallas, TX\" or \"Jane Doe; CA\".", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxResultsPerName": { "title": "Max results per name", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 20, "type": "integer", "description": "How many matched people to return per input name (1–20).", "default": 5 }, "fetchProfile": { "title": "Fetch full profile (phone + address + relatives)", "type": "boolean", "description": "Open each person's profile page to extract phone numbers, full address, birth year, and relatives. Recommended: ON. Turn off for fastest/cheapest listing-only results (name + location + age only).", "default": true }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Apify Residential proxy is strongly recommended — Radaris blocks datacenter IPs. Leave as default.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": [ "RESIDENTIAL" ] } }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Max parallel requests", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 10, "type": "integer", "description": "How many profile pages to fetch in parallel. Keep at 3–5 to avoid rate-limiting.", "default": 4 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```