> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: /people-search/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> Search for people from a description, then find one person's social accounts and videos from their LinkedIn profile, with their posts and what they said in the videos.

Constants Social Search turns a description of a person, like *"Bichen Wu who worked at Meta"*, into a short list of matching people, and then turns the one you pick into their X, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook accounts and the YouTube videos they appear in. Every candidate account and video is checked against the person's professional background, so you get an answer, not a list of everyone with the same name.

> [card] [Search people](/people-search/docs/api-reference/people-search.md)
>
> A description in, as many matching people out as it asks for, from one to thousands, each with their current title, employer and LinkedIn address.

> [card] [Enrich a person](/people-search/docs/api-reference/people-enrich.md)
>
> A LinkedIn address in: the full profile, the accounts per platform and the YouTube videos that are them.

## How it works

**1. Search for the person**

The description is matched against professional profiles. You get back as many people as it asks for (20 by default), each with a name, current role and LinkedIn address, and pick the one you meant.

**2. Collect their profile**

Enrich person takes that LinkedIn address and collects the full profile: name, headline, location, work history and education.

**3. Search each platform**

X, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook are searched for the person's name in parallel. YouTube is searched for the name, and for the name with their current employer.

**4. Read every candidate**

Each Instagram, TikTok and Facebook account found is looked up in full, so its bio and links can be compared. X search already returns them.

**5. Score the candidates**

A model compares each account and video with the profile. Only the ones it's confident are the person come back.

Each matched account comes back with its recent posts and the accounts it follows, and each matched video with its transcript.

## Next steps

> [card] [Quickstart](/people-search/docs/quickstart.md)
>
> Make your first calls.

> [card] [Matching](/people-search/docs/concepts/matching.md)
>
> How accounts and videos are matched.

> [card] [Pricing and limits](/people-search/docs/concepts/pricing.md)
>
> What each call costs and how long it takes.


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