People Finder: Professionals by Role, Skill & City

Find professionals by what they do and where they are. Type a role, skill or topic and a city, and get matching people from public developer, research and reference sources, merged into one profile each.

Quick start

Press Start. The sample finds 5 machine learning people in London with social links and skills. Raise Max profiles to 200 for a full list.

What you get

• Name, public handle, role, organisation, location, stated expertise and best profile link
• The search that found them and when
• Optional extras, $0.01 each and only when found: social links, website, activity numbers (followers, repos, citations, h-index), publications, skills, short bio

Good for

• Sourcing engineers or researchers in a city
• Finding speakers or experts on a niche topic
• Building a list of practitioners for user interviews

Pricing

• $0.05 per profile returned
• $0.01 per extra field, billed only when we find it for that person
• 20 profiles with two extras cost at most $1.40

You pay only for results that come back. Set a max cost per run in the run options and the run stops cleanly when it hits it. Normal Apify platform usage applies.

Input

Field	What it does
keywords	What the people do or know: data engineer, climate policy, computer vision. One per line.
location	City or country. Leave blank for worldwide.
maxProfiles	$0.05 per profile returned. You are never billed for more than this number.
extraFeatures	Pick what to add to each profile. Billed only for fields we actually find for that person.
language	For engineers: keep people whose public code is mostly in this language.
webSearch	Helps fill social and profile links. Turn off for faster runs.
githubToken	Speeds up big searches for engineers. Stored encrypted.

Limits

• Public professional information only. We never collect personal emails, phone numbers or anything behind a login.
• Sources: public code hosting profiles, OpenAlex, ORCID, Wikidata and the open web. People with little public footprint won't show up.
• Follow your local data-protection rules when contacting anyone you find.

Run it from code

Same input as the Console sample:

{
  "keywords": [
    "machine learning"
  ],
  "location": "London",
  "maxProfiles": 5,
  "extraFeatures": [
    "social_links",
    "topics_and_skills"
  ]
}

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/physealabs~people-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @input.json

from apify_client import ApifyClient
items = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN").actor("physealabs/people-finder").call(run_input={"keywords": ["machine learning"], "location": "London", "maxProfiles": 5, "extraFeatures": ["social_links", "topics_and_skills"]})

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