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# socialMediaLookupBatchTrigger

`POST /v1/social-media-lookup/batch/trigger`

**Tags:** `Social media lookup`

Start batch social media lookup (X, Instagram)

**Endpoint:** `https://api.fiber.ai/v1/social-media-lookup/batch/trigger`

## Description

Start a batch social media lookup for multiple people. Find X (Twitter) and Instagram profiles using LinkedIn URLs, user IDs, or manual name+context. Results are available via the batch polling endpoint.

⚡ Rate limit: 10 requests per 1 minute

💰 Cost: 3 credits per platform searched per person ⓘ

## Request body (JSON Schema)

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "apiKey": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Your Fiber API key"
    },
    "overallContext": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 1000,
      "description": "Optional context about this batch to help disambiguation (e.g. 'AI startup founders'). Applied to all people in the batch."
    },
    "platforms": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "TWITTER",
          "INSTAGRAM"
        ]
      },
      "minItems": 1,
      "default": [
        "TWITTER"
      ],
      "description": "Which social media platforms to search. Defaults to Twitter/X."
    },
    "people": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "oneOf": [
          {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "customerProvidedId": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "Your external ID for this person, echoed back in the response for joining results to your dataset."
              },
              "inputType": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "linkedinUrl"
                ]
              },
              "linkedinUrl": {
                "type": "string",
                "minLength": 1,
                "description": "LinkedIn profile URL, slug, or entity URN (e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/karpathy or just 'karpathy')."
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "inputType",
              "linkedinUrl"
            ]
          },
          {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "customerProvidedId": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "Your external ID for this person, echoed back in the response for joining results to your dataset."
              },
              "inputType": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "linkedinUserId"
                ]
              },
              "linkedinUserId": {
                "type": "string",
                "pattern": "^\\d+$",
                "minLength": 1,
                "description": "LinkedIn numeric user ID for this person."
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "inputType",
              "linkedinUserId"
            ]
          },
          {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "customerProvidedId": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "description": "Your external ID for this person, echoed back in the response for joining results to your dataset."
              },
              "inputType": {
                "type": "string",
                "enum": [
                  "manual"
                ]
              },
              "fullName": {
                "type": "string",
                "minLength": 1,
                "maxLength": 256,
                "description": "The full name of the person to look up."
              },
              "company": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "minLength": 1,
                "description": "Current company, used to disambiguate common names."
              },
              "jobTitle": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "minLength": 1,
                "description": "Current job title."
              },
              "workEmail": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "format": "email",
                "description": "Work email address."
              },
              "linkedinUrl": {
                "type": [
                  "string",
                  "null"
                ],
                "format": "uri",
                "description": "LinkedIn profile URL for additional context (e.g. https://www.linkedin.com/in/karpathy)."
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "inputType",
              "fullName"
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      "minItems": 1,
      "maxItems": 100,
      "description": "Array of people to look up (1-100). Each person can be identified by LinkedIn URL, LinkedIn user ID, or manual name+context."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "apiKey",
    "people"
  ]
}
```

## Response — success (JSON Schema)

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "output": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "runId": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "The ID of this batch run. Provide to the batch polling endpoint to get results."
        },
        "numPeopleEnqueued": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0,
          "description": "Number of people enqueued for lookup after deduplication."
        },
        "numDuplicatesSkipped": {
          "type": "integer",
          "minimum": 0,
          "description": "Number of duplicate people skipped (same LinkedIn profile submitted multiple times)."
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "runId",
        "numPeopleEnqueued",
        "numDuplicatesSkipped"
      ]
    },
    "chargeInfo": {
      "oneOf": [
        {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "method": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "charged-now"
              ]
            },
            "creditsCharged": {
              "type": "number"
            },
            "lowCreditAlert": {
              "type": [
                "object",
                "null"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "getMoreCreditsUrl": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "format": "uri",
                  "description": "URL to top up credits or restart billing cycle to get fresh credits."
                },
                "message": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Human-readable credits warning."
                },
                "availableCredits": {
                  "type": "number",
                  "description": "Number of credits remaining in the current billing period."
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "getMoreCreditsUrl",
                "message",
                "availableCredits"
              ],
              "description": "Contains a link to get more credits, a warning message, and the remaining credit count."
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "method",
            "creditsCharged"
          ],
          "description": "Credits were charged immediately for this operation"
        },
        {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "method": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "charging-later"
              ]
            },
            "message": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "lowCreditAlert": {
              "type": [
                "object",
                "null"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "getMoreCreditsUrl": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "format": "uri",
                  "description": "URL to top up credits or restart billing cycle to get fresh credits."
                },
                "message": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Human-readable credits warning."
                },
                "availableCredits": {
                  "type": "number",
                  "description": "Number of credits remaining in the current billing period."
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "getMoreCreditsUrl",
                "message",
                "availableCredits"
              ],
              "description": "Contains a link to get more credits, a warning message, and the remaining credit count."
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "method",
            "message"
          ],
          "description": "Credits will be charged after the operation completes"
        },
        {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "method": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "charged-for-async-process"
              ]
            },
            "creditsCharged": {
              "type": "number"
            },
            "message": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "lowCreditAlert": {
              "type": [
                "object",
                "null"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "getMoreCreditsUrl": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "format": "uri",
                  "description": "URL to top up credits or restart billing cycle to get fresh credits."
                },
                "message": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Human-readable credits warning."
                },
                "availableCredits": {
                  "type": "number",
                  "description": "Number of credits remaining in the current billing period."
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "getMoreCreditsUrl",
                "message",
                "availableCredits"
              ],
              "description": "Contains a link to get more credits, a warning message, and the remaining credit count."
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "method",
            "creditsCharged",
            "message"
          ],
          "description": "Credits that were charged for an asynchronous operation"
        },
        {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "method": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "free"
              ]
            },
            "message": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "lowCreditAlert": {
              "type": [
                "object",
                "null"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "getMoreCreditsUrl": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "format": "uri",
                  "description": "URL to top up credits or restart billing cycle to get fresh credits."
                },
                "message": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Human-readable credits warning."
                },
                "availableCredits": {
                  "type": "number",
                  "description": "Number of credits remaining in the current billing period."
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "getMoreCreditsUrl",
                "message",
                "availableCredits"
              ],
              "description": "Contains a link to get more credits, a warning message, and the remaining credit count."
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "method",
            "message"
          ],
          "description": "No credits were charged for this operation"
        },
        {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "method": {
              "type": "string",
              "enum": [
                "credits-refunded"
              ]
            },
            "creditsRefunded": {
              "type": "number"
            },
            "message": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "lowCreditAlert": {
              "type": [
                "object",
                "null"
              ],
              "properties": {
                "getMoreCreditsUrl": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "format": "uri",
                  "description": "URL to top up credits or restart billing cycle to get fresh credits."
                },
                "message": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Human-readable credits warning."
                },
                "availableCredits": {
                  "type": "number",
                  "description": "Number of credits remaining in the current billing period."
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "getMoreCreditsUrl",
                "message",
                "availableCredits"
              ],
              "description": "Contains a link to get more credits, a warning message, and the remaining credit count."
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "method",
            "creditsRefunded",
            "message"
          ],
          "description": "Credits were refunded for this operation"
        }
      ]
    },
    "warnings": {
      "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
      ],
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "field": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Full path to extraneous field (e.g., 'searchParams.ExtraField')"
          },
          "message": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Warning message"
          }
        },
        "required": [
          "field",
          "message"
        ]
      },
      "description": "Warnings about extraneous fields in request"
    },
    "advice": {
      "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
      ],
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Tips, recommendations, and suggestions for using this API effectively."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "output",
    "chargeInfo"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

---

Canonical JSON: [`https://api.fiber.ai/openapi.json`](https://api.fiber.ai/openapi.json)
Operation index: [`https://api.fiber.ai/ai-docs/index.md`](https://api.fiber.ai/ai-docs/index.md)