Skip Trace & People Search

Find people in the US by name, phone or address. Every match comes back as its own structured record — age, phone numbers, email addresses, relatives, other names (aliases) and the places they have lived.

Per-result charges apply only to people actually found; a small start fee applies per run. Proxies are included and configured automatically — just leave the proxy setting empty.

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What it does

Search by name, phone number (reverse lookup) or address (reverse lookup) and get every matching person as a separate record: age, phone numbers, emails, aliases, relatives, current and previous addresses, and whether the person is marked as deceased. Matches from several public US people-records sources are merged per person, so you get one clean record instead of scattered partial hits.

Built for:

• Investigators & skip tracers — contact details, address history and relatives
• Legal — confirm identity, contact info and places a person has lived
• Real estate — reach property owners and past residents
• Sales & lead enrichment — append phones, emails, age and location to contact lists

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Search modes

Mode	Input	What you get
Name	First and last name (both required), optionally narrowed by state and city	Each matching person: age, phones, emails, aliases, relatives, addresses
Phone	A 10-digit US phone number	The people associated with that number and their details
Address	Street plus city/state or ZIP	The people associated with that address
Email	An email address (best-effort)	People linked to that email

Batch mode runs many searches in a single run.

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Output fields

Field	Description
fullName	Full name as listed, including any middle name or Jr./Sr.
firstName / lastName	First and last name
age	Age in years
deceased	true/false when a source reports it
aliases	Other names the person is known by
currentAddress	Current place — city, state, ZIP and street when available
previousAddresses	Other places the person has lived
phoneNumbers	Phone numbers found for the person
emailAddresses	Email addresses found for the person
relatives	Names of relatives and associates
profileUrls	Link(s) to the person's public record page
dataSources	Which sources contributed to this record
searchQuery	The input query that produced this result
scrapedAt	When the data was scraped

Good to know

• A search can list many people and is loose about location. The Actor keeps only people who have lived in the state you give — matched against every place a person has lived, so a former resident is included — which means a search can return fewer people than maxResults.
• Adding a city narrows and targets the search and improves relevance, but it is not applied as a strict filter: a nearby town or another borough of the same metro can still appear. Use the returned addresses to confirm the exact location.
• For name search, only people whose listed name (or an alias) carries the name you typed are returned. Spaces, apostrophes, accents, a trailing Jr./Sr. and hyphens don't matter ("De La Cruz" finds "Delacruz"). A one-letter first name matches any first name starting with that letter. A typed middle name/initial must match when the listing shows one.
• A misspelt state, or a city with no letters in it, stops the run with an error instead of quietly finding nobody.
• Some records sit behind anti-bot protection that lets clean traffic through and blocks the rest. The Actor retries automatically on a fresh connection, so most searches come back with data — but coverage per run is not guaranteed to be 100%.

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Input options

Field	Description	Default
searchType	name, phone, email or address	name
firstName	First name (required for name search)	—
lastName	Last name (required for name search)	—
state	US state, abbreviation (NY) or full name (New York)	—
city	City	—
phone	10-digit US phone (for phone search)	—
email	Email address (for email search)	—
street / zip	Street and ZIP (for address search)	—
queries	Array of queries for batch mode	—
maxResults	Max person records per query (1–20)	5

Batch mode

Search for multiple people in one run by passing a queries array:

{
  "searchType": "name",
  "maxResults": 3,
  "queries": [
    { "firstName": "John", "lastName": "Smith", "state": "CA" },
    { "firstName": "Jane", "lastName": "Doe", "state": "NY", "city": "New York" }
  ]
}

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Example output

Each matching person is returned as their own record. Values below are illustrative, not a real person:

{
  "fullName": "Sample A Person",
  "firstName": "Sample",
  "lastName": "Person",
  "age": 45,
  "deceased": false,
  "aliases": ["Sam Person"],
  "currentAddress": { "street": "123 Main St", "city": "Springfield", "state": "IL", "zip": "62701" },
  "previousAddresses": [
    { "street": null, "city": "Peoria", "state": "IL", "zip": "61602" }
  ],
  "phoneNumbers": [
    { "number": "(217) 555-0148", "type": "unknown" }
  ],
  "emailAddresses": ["sample.person@example.com"],
  "relatives": [
    { "name": "Relative Person" }
  ],
  "profileUrls": { "source": "https://.../profile/..." },
  "dataSources": ["source"],
  "searchQuery": { "firstName": "Sample", "lastName": "Person", "state": "IL", "searchType": "name" },
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T12:00:00.000Z"
}

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Pricing

$0.30 per person found.

You are charged per person record written to the dataset, so a search with maxResults: 5 that finds five people costs $1.50. Lower maxResults if you only need the top matches. If a search returns no records, there is no per-result charge. A small Actor start fee applies per run.

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Proxy

Proxies are included and configured automatically — just leave the proxy setting empty. If you prefer to use your own, set it in the proxy input.

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Integrations

Export results as JSON, CSV, or Excel. Connect to your workflow via:

• Apify API
• Webhooks
• Make (Integromat), n8n, Zapier

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FAQ

Does it work for any US person? It searches publicly available records. Results depend on what is indexed — long-term US residents typically return the richest data.

Can I search for multiple people at once? Yes — use the queries array in batch mode to search for many people in a single run.

Will two people with the same name be merged into one record? No. Every person found is returned separately. Records are combined only when they share a person-specific detail — a phone number, an email address, or the same street address. A shared name is never enough to merge two people, even with a similar age or the same city.

Why did a search return little or nothing on one run? Some records are served behind anti-bot protection. The Actor retries automatically and keeps going, so a person missed on one attempt is usually still found — but coverage per run is not guaranteed.

What happens if a search finds nobody? The run finishes with an empty dataset and no per-result charge. If a search cannot be completed at all, the run fails with the reason instead of quietly returning nothing. In batch mode, results from searches that already finished stay saved.

Is the data real-time? Data is fetched live on every run. The underlying records are updated regularly but may not reflect very recent changes.

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Feedback & support

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