Skip Trace PRO — Verified Phones & Emails, Clean Output 🔎

Skip trace anyone by name, address, or phone — and get contacts you can actually use. Skip Trace PRO pulls contact data from a licensed skip-trace provider (not scraping, not breach data), then adds the things competitors don't: a clean flat record with the best phone & email surfaced, phone validation + line-type + optional real-time liveness, MX-verified emails, an optional breach-exposure flag, and a match-confidence score.

Built to fix the three things people hate about other skip-trace actors: empty results, messy nested JSON, and dead contact info.

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✅ Why it's better

	Typical skip-trace actor	Skip Trace PRO
Data source	Brittle scrape of Cloudflare-blocked sites → "no results"	Licensed API (reliable, accurate)
Output	Huge nested JSON, contradictory arrays	Clean flat record, bestPhone/bestEmail surfaced
Email quality	Raw, often dead	MX-verified
Phone data	Raw strings	E.164 + line-type + optional live/carrier check
Validity signal	None	Breach-exposure flag (real, used email)
Match quality	Unknown	matchConfidence 0–100 fusing every signal
Input UX	Strict (semicolon required)	Free-form
Billing	Charged on junk	Pay only per delivered record

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🔑 Setup — add your keys as Environment variables

Set these under Actor → Settings → Environment variables (kept secret, never in input):

Env var	Purpose	Required?
PDL_API_KEY	Source 1 — People Data Labs (recommended; resale-OK outside FCRA; free 100/mo)	set ≥1 source
SCRAPERAPI_KEY	Source 3 — FastPeopleSearch via ScraperAPI unblocker (residential data; free 1k/mo)	set ≥1 source
ENDATO_AP_NAME / ENDATO_AP_PASSWORD	Source 2 — Endato/Enformion (personal use only — ToS forbids resale)	optional
HIBP_API_KEY	Breach-exposure flag (HaveIBeenPwned)	optional
NUMVERIFY_API_KEY	Real-time phone liveness + carrier	optional

Multi-source cascade: the actor queries every configured source top-down, merges the results, and isolates the most-likely match — a phone/email confirmed by 2+ independent sources ranks highest (bestPhoneCorroboration, sourceCount, mostLikely). Configure one source or all three; it uses whatever's keyed.

⚖️ Compliance — your responsibility. The scraperapi source scrapes public people-search data; reselling personal data can trigger FCRA and state data-broker registration obligations. Confirm ScraperAPI's terms permit your use. pdl permits resale only outside FCRA-regulated uses (no employment/credit/insurance/housing). endato forbids resale entirely — personal use only.

Each enrichment gracefully skips if its key isn't set. No key? Run with demoMode: true to preview the exact output for free.

Why a licensed API, not scraping? Public people-search sites sit behind Cloudflare/DataDome and block scrapers (that's why other actors return "no results"). A licensed API is reliable, durable, and — for People Data Labs — resale-permitted outside FCRA-regulated uses. Start free: PDL gives 100 lookups/month free + a 500-credit trial (peopledatalabs.com).

Endato/Enformion has deeper US consumer data but its ToS prohibits resale — only select it for your own internal use, never for a public/paid actor.

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🔧 Inputs

• names — "John Smith, Austin, TX"
• addresses — "123 Main St, Austin, TX 78701" (reverse → residents)
• phones — "(512) 555-0142" (reverse → owner)
• verifyEmails / classifyPhones — on by default
• verifyPhoneLiveness — real-time active-line check (needs NumVerify key)
• checkBreachExposure — breach metadata flag (needs HIBP key)

📤 Output (one clean row per person)

{
  "query": "John Smith, Austin, TX",
  "fullName": "John Smith",
  "age": 47,
  "bestPhone": "(512) 555-0142",
  "bestPhoneType": "mobile",
  "bestPhoneE164": "+15125550142",
  "bestPhoneLive": true,
  "bestEmail": "jsmith@gmail.com",
  "bestEmailVerified": true,
  "breachExposed": true,
  "breachCount": 7,
  "dataClassesExposed": ["Email addresses", "Phone numbers"],
  "currentAddress": "123 Main St, Austin, TX 78701",
  "matchConfidence": 92,
  "source": "Endato",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-07T00:00:00.000Z"
}

💡 Use cases

Real-estate lead skip-tracing • debt collection • process serving • B2B enrichment • CRM contact append.

⚖️ Compliance

Returns data from licensed providers and public-metadata services only. No breach contents, ever. Not an FCRA consumer report — do not use for credit, employment, insurance, or tenant screening. You are responsible for lawful use.