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One-to-one identity, document and data checks against the DVS and Australian data sources, run from the Portal or by API.

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Social Check API

Social Check takes a phone number, an email address or a social media profile URL and returns what is publicly associated with the person behind it: their social profiles, other emails and phones, employment and education history, interests and skills, with a likelihood score for the match.

  • Thirty supported profile domains across twenty-eight networks, from LinkedIn and Facebook to GitHub and Crunchbase, matched from a profile URL, a phone or an email
  • A likelihood score from 1 to 10 and a person ID that stays constant across lookups, so two identifiers can be tied to the same person
For developers

After the technical detail?

For the technical detail, go to the API documentation. It holds the request and response schema, the integration guides and the error codes for this endpoint.

  • Request and response schema
  • Supported networks and URL formats
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Endpoints that return personal information require a privacy policy and PII handling processes before access is granted.

Encrypted in transit and at rest Handled under the Australian Privacy Principles
What the check gives you

Seeing the public footprint behind a contact detail

A phone number or an email address on its own says nothing about who is behind it. Social Check looks up what is publicly associated with the identifier and returns the person's profiles, other contact details, work and education history, interests and skills, with a score for how confident the match is. Several identifiers can be checked in one call.

Who, and how confident

Each record carries a result of Match, No Match or Error, a likelihood score from 1 to 10, and a person ID that is the same across lookups for the same person.

Their profiles and contact details

The social profiles found, the associated email addresses with a type classification, and the associated phone numbers in E.164 format.

Their work and education

Current employment, plus an employment history and an education history, each ordered most recent first.

Where they are and what they do

A general location with its locality, region and country, and lists of interests and skills, with the date the record was last updated.

What it costs

A monthly subscription, drawn down as you run checks

Your subscription is credited to your account each month and each check consumes credits from it. If you go past the included amount, further checks are charged at a per-check rate. The rate depends on the volume you commit to, so the sales team is the fastest way to find where your business lands.

  • Volume-based pricing
  • No lock-in contract
How billing works
Subscribe monthly, spend it as credits
  • The monthly subscription arrives as credits on your account.
  • Each check draws down credits as it runs.
  • Checks beyond the included credits are billed per check.
  • Higher monthly volume moves you to a lower rate.
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Related checks

Others in Social

Social Contact Expand turns one identifier into additional phones and emails across the social and universe sources. Caspar Person Search accepts a social profile URL as a search key.

Questions

Questions we get asked about Social Check

Do we need a developer to implement this?
Yes. Social Check is a REST endpoint with a query parameter and a JSON response, so a developer connects it to your investigation or enrichment tooling. A sandbox with a deterministic test dataset is provided at no usage cost, so the integration can be built and tested before production keys are issued.
What does our system need to send?
A comma-separated list of phone numbers in E.164 or Australian 0NSN format, email addresses, and social media profile URLs. A profile URL must include the domain and a path identifying the profile; a bare handle or a domain alone is not accepted. The scheme and www. prefix are optional.
Which networks are supported?
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and X, Xing, Indeed, GitHub, Meetup, Instagram, Quora, Gravatar, Klout, Stack Overflow, AngelList, YouTube, Foursquare, Pinterest, Vimeo, About.me, Flickr, Ello, Crunchbase, Dribbble, Google, WordPress, Myspace, Behance, SoundCloud and Reddit.
What comes back?
A records array with one entry per identifier: the result, likelihood, person ID, location, person details, emails and phones, employment and education, interests, skills, social profiles and the record date.
Where does the data come from?
Publicly available social media and web sources associated with the identifier. The reference documentation does not enumerate the sources; each record carries the date it was last updated.
What are our obligations when using this endpoint?
This endpoint returns personally identifiable information. Access to endpoints that return PII requires an appropriate privacy policy and PII handling processes, and use is subject to the Global Data privacy policy and terms of service. On Global Data's side, PII sent in a request is not retained, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and retention follows the Australian Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles.
Getting started

The first step to access is a conversation

Endpoints that return personal information are opened only to accounts with a privacy policy and PII handling processes in place, and production API keys are issued once the account has been commercially approved.

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Encrypted in transit and at rest
Handled under the Australian Privacy Principles
ISO 27001 Certified