Search people by description

From Exa, through Joshu Data Bodega.

Price
$0.0077 per call$7.70 per 1,000 calls

No calls measured in the last 30 days.

Prices include the router's 10% markup and are paid from the usage wallet. Checked on November 11, 2026.

Inputs

  • querystring, required

    describe the person in words — role, seniority, location, industry, anything a profile page would say. Free text, not filters: 'head of security at a fintech in berlin' works, so does 'ai safety researchers in greater phoenix'

  • categorystring, required

    must be `people`

  • contentsobject, optional

    {highlights: true} returns the profile lines that matched the query

  • numResultsinteger, optional

    1-100, default 10; beyond 10 adds $0.001 each

  • includeDomainsstring, optional

    e.g. ["linkedin.com"] to keep to one profile host

Call it

Router call with a router API key
curl https://hello.joshu.me/api/router/call \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $JOSHU_ROUTER_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "endpoint": "exa.people.search",
    "params": {
      "query": "head of security at a fintech in berlin",
      "category": "people",
      "numResults": 3
    }
  }'