Supply a candidate-data API with personal emails and mobiles for recruiting platforms

Let a candidate-data aggregator return personal emails and mobiles to the recruiting platforms that call its API, filling records its other sources missed.

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Uses POST /person_detail_lookup/, POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ · Person enrichment API reference

What it costs: 15 credits per mobile found · 5 credits per email found. A mobile or email lookup that returns nothing costs 0 credits. Enrichment and search are charged per request: credit pricing.

How the data flows

2 inputs → Personal emails + Mobile numbers + Person enrichment → 3 fields sample data

01 · Inputs

LinkedIn URL

linkedin.com/in/priya-fixture

Full name + company

Priya Fixture · Example Inc.

02 · Forager

Personal emails + Mobile numbers + Person enrichment POST /person_detail_lookup/

Match found

03 · Outputs

Priya FixtureVP Revenue Operations · Example Inc.

personal email: priya.f@example.net
phone number: +44 20 7946 0958
name: Priya Fixture
title: VP Revenue Operations
work email: priya@example.com
company: Example Inc.

2 fields in the responseexample data

Steps

Resolve each candidate with POST /person_detail_lookup/
Fetch personal_email from /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/
Fetch mobiles from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Gold for quality, Silver for reach)
Merge into the aggregator's candidate API response with source attribution and per-field credits

import json, os, requests

BASE = "https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage"
HEADERS = {"X-API-KEY": os.environ["FORAGER_KEY"]}
body = json.load(open("request.json"))  # request fields: see the API reference

# 1. Resolve each candidate with POST /person_detail_lookup/
r1 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_detail_lookup/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 2. Fetch personal_email from /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/

# 3. Fetch mobiles from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Gold
# for quality, Silver for reach)
r2 = requests.post(f"{BASE}/person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/", headers=HEADERS, json=body)

# 4. Merge into the aggregator's candidate API response with source
# attribution and per-field credits

# 1. POST /person_detail_lookup/
curl -X POST \
  https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage/person_detail_lookup/ \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $FORAGER_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @request.json

# 2. POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/
curl -X POST \
  https://api-v2.forager.ai/api/{account_id}/datastorage/person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ \
  -H "X-API-KEY: $FORAGER_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d @request.json

Generated from the recipe stepsRequest fields: API reference

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Inputs and outputs

Inputs	Outputs
candidate profile URL	`personal_email`
name + employer	`phone_number`
	`tier`

Questions about this recipe

Which API provides personal emails and phone numbers for candidates?

This recipe uses Forager Personal emails, Mobile numbers and Person enrichment. Personal emails: Personal email addresses for reaching people outside their work inbox, such as passive candidates and founders. Let a candidate-data aggregator return personal emails and mobiles to the recruiting platforms that call its API, filling records its other sources missed.

What does it cost to supply a candidate-data API with personal emails and mobiles for recruiting platforms?

Personal emails: 5 credits per personal email found, and a personal email lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. Mobile numbers: 15 credits per mobile number found, and a mobile number lookup that finds nothing costs 0 credits. Person enrichment: 1 credit per request, charged whether or not data comes back. Growth's 8,250 monthly credits cover 550 mobiles, 1,650 emails or 8,250 person enrichments, or a mix. Self-serve plans are Starter, Growth, Pro and Scale. See plans and prices

What do I need to run this recipe, and what comes back?

You send candidate profile URL and name + employer. You get back personal_email, phone_number and tier, as JSON. You also need a Forager API key, which comes with a free account.

How do recruiting platforms add candidate contact data to their product?

Resolve each candidate with POST /person_detail_lookup/. Fetch personal_email from /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/.

Is there a free way to try Forager on this workflow?

Yes. Create a free account at app.forager.ai: it comes with $5 in free credits and an API key, and there is no credit card to sign up. Run it on records you already know, or book a demo and send us a list: we run it and show you what we find.

When should I run this workflow?

When a recruiting-platform customer complains about missing contact fields on candidate records. Recruiting platforms fill more candidate records and launch contact features quickly.

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

Personal emails, mobile numbers and person enrichment. Personal emails: personal email addresses for reaching people outside their work inbox, such as passive candidates and founders. Mobile numbers: direct mobile numbers for a person, from a LinkedIn URL or a Forager person ID, validated before they reach you.

How do you check data quality?

Forager ranked #1 of 10 in Clay's 2026 test of mobile data providers, by quality score: Clay's measure of how likely a dialled number reaches the right person. The test that counts is your own: send a list of profiles you care about. We run it and show you what we find, number by number, so you can measure hit rate and connect rate yourself.

Which tools can run this workflow?

Native in Clay and Zapier, partner-built in Deepline and Cargo and called through the API from Make, n8n and your own code. Or call the endpoints in the steps above from your own code with one API key.

How many steps is this workflow?

4 steps: resolve each candidate with POST /person_detail_lookup/, fetch personal_email from /person_contacts_lookup/personal_emails/, fetch mobiles from POST /person_contacts_lookup/phone_numbers/ (Gold for quality, Silver for reach) and merge into the aggregator's candidate API response with source attribution and per-field credits.

Is there a contract or minimum commitment?

No contract to start: a free account comes with $5 in credits. To keep using Forager, choose a monthly or yearly plan. Monthly plans cancel anytime and unused credits roll over; yearly plans grant all credits upfront and cost 10% less. Larger volumes are agreed with our team.

Can we show Forager data inside our product?

Yes, under platform terms. Self-serve plans cover internal use by your own team. Showing Forager contacts to your users, or passing records on, is licensed separately: talk to sales about volume and which fields your users need to see.

A selection of teams that run this job on Forager · plus other teams on Forager

Clay
- GTM workflow builders
Selected use case: Forager mobile numbers, emails and people data inside Clay tables.
Juicebox
- AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: Forager data behind its PeopleGPT search and sourcing agents.
Nooks
- Power & parallel dialers
Selected use case: mobile numbers inside their dialer.
Andela
- Customer
Selected use case: Forager data for the go-to-market team at a global talent marketplace.
HubSpot
- CRM add-ons
Selected use case: enriching contact and company records with people, company and job-posting data.
SeekOut
- Talent intelligence
Selected use case: Forager’s people data feed, used to keep candidate profiles current.

2–3 years on the Forager people data feed, by SeekOut’s own account¹
Intro
- AI candidate sourcing
Selected use case: phone numbers for outreach to passive candidates.
Leelu
- AI candidate sourcing
Team behind the Leelu AI recruiting copilot.

Sources

¹ SeekOut: SeekOut, customer interview, Sep 2026.

Supply a candidate-data API with personal emails and mobiles for recruiting platforms

How the data flows

Steps

Inputs and outputs

Questions about this recipe

Which API provides personal emails and phone numbers for candidates?

What does it cost to supply a candidate-data API with personal emails and mobiles for recruiting platforms?

What do I need to run this recipe, and what comes back?

How do recruiting platforms add candidate contact data to their product?

Is there a free way to try Forager on this workflow?

When should I run this workflow?

Which Forager products does this recipe use?

How do you check data quality?

Which tools can run this workflow?

How many steps is this workflow?

Is there a contract or minimum commitment?

Can we show Forager data inside our product?

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