> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.particle.pro/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get a Person > Returns the comprehensive Person payload including display name, slug, headshot, curated bio, the Person's company-role history (most recent first), known third-party profile links, and an optional knowledge-graph cross-reference. The {id} parameter accepts the Person slug (recommended) or the encoded Person UUID. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.json get /v1/people/{id} openapi: 3.1.0 info: description: Public API for Particle — news intelligence, financial data, and analysis. title: Particle API version: 0.1.0 servers: - url: https://api.particle.pro security: - ApiKeyHeader: [] - BearerAuth: [] paths: /v1/people/{id}: get: tags: - People - tier:standard summary: Get a Person description: >- Returns the comprehensive Person payload including display name, slug, headshot, curated bio, the Person's company-role history (most recent first), known third-party profile links, and an optional knowledge-graph cross-reference. The {id} parameter accepts the Person slug (recommended) or the encoded Person UUID. operationId: get-person parameters: - description: >- Person identifier. Accepts the Person slug (recommended) or the encoded Person UUID returned as 'id' on every Person payload. in: path name: id required: true schema: description: >- Person identifier. Accepts the Person slug (recommended) or the encoded Person UUID returned as 'id' on every Person payload. type: string responses: '200': content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Person' description: OK default: content: application/problem+json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PlatformError' description: Error x-codeSamples: - label: cURL lang: curl source: |- curl -H "X-API-Key: $PARTICLE_API_KEY" \ "https://api.particle.pro/v1/people/{id}" components: schemas: Person: additionalProperties: false properties: current_role: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PersonCompanyRole' description: The Person's most recent company role, when known. description: description: Short bio (one-liner) curated for the Person. type: string detailed_description: description: Longer Wikipedia-grounded bio when available. type: string external_links: description: >- Known third-party profiles (LinkedIn, Wikipedia, social). Discovered asynchronously; a freshly-resolved Person may not yet have all platforms populated. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExternalLink' type: - array - 'null' id: description: Encoded Person identifier type: string image_url: description: Canonical headshot URL when one is known for the Person type: string knowledge_graph_entity: $ref: '#/components/schemas/KnowledgeGraphEntityLink' description: >- Linked knowledge graph entity, when one exists. Secondary identifier — most callers should rely on id/slug. name: description: Display name type: string roles: description: >- All known company roles, ordered most-recent first. Includes the current role at index 0. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PersonCompanyRole' type: - array - 'null' slug: description: >- Stable human-readable handle (e.g. 'satya-nadella'). Recommended canonical identifier on every Particle Pro person surface. type: string required: - id - name type: object PlatformError: additionalProperties: false properties: detail: description: >- A human-readable explanation specific to this occurrence of the problem. examples: - Property foo is required but is missing. type: string error_code: type: string errors: description: Optional list of individual error details items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorDetail' type: - array - 'null' instance: description: >- A URI reference that identifies the specific occurrence of the problem. examples: - https://example.com/error-log/abc123 format: uri type: string resolve: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorResolve' status: description: HTTP status code examples: - 400 format: int64 type: integer title: description: >- A short, human-readable summary of the problem type. This value should not change between occurrences of the error. examples: - Bad Request type: string type: default: about:blank description: A URI reference to human-readable documentation for the error. examples: - https://example.com/errors/example format: uri type: string type: object PersonCompanyRole: additionalProperties: false properties: company: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CompanyCompact' description: Company the Person held this role at ended_at: description: When the role ended, when known (omitted for current roles) format: date-time type: string is_current: description: Whether the role is currently held type: boolean started_at: description: When the role began, when known format: date-time type: string title: description: Role title (e.g. 'Chief Executive Officer') type: string required: - company - is_current type: object ExternalLink: additionalProperties: false properties: attributes: description: >- Optional platform-specific metadata: audience size, profile fields, account status, and related signals. The set varies by platform and grows over time — clients should treat unknown attribute names as additive. items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExternalLinkAttribute' type: - array - 'null' identifier: description: >- Platform-native identifier (numeric id, slug, handle, or full URL). Empty for the 'website' platform, where the URL is the canonical reference. type: string platform: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExternalLinkPlatform' description: 'Platform metadata: machine name, display name, and broad type.' url: description: >- Resolved web URL for this presence. Built from the identifier via a per-platform template, or passed through for 'website'. type: string required: - platform type: object KnowledgeGraphEntityLink: additionalProperties: false properties: id: description: Knowledge graph entity identifier type: string slug: description: Knowledge graph entity slug type: string wikipedia_url: description: Wikipedia URL associated with the KGE, when one is recorded type: string required: - id type: object ErrorDetail: additionalProperties: false properties: location: description: >- Where the error occurred, e.g. 'body.items[3].tags' or 'path.thing-id' type: string message: description: Error message text type: string value: description: The value at the given location type: object ErrorResolve: additionalProperties: false properties: action: type: string endpoint: type: string message: type: string method: type: string url: type: string required: - message type: object CompanyCompact: additionalProperties: false properties: description: description: Short company description, when known. type: string domain: description: Primary website domain (e.g. 'nvidia.com'), when known. type: string id: description: Company identifier (domain, slug, or encoded ID) type: string image_url: description: Company logo or image URL type: string name: description: Company name type: string slug: description: >- Stable human-readable handle (the linked knowledge-graph slug, e.g. 'nvidia'), when known. Companies have no slug of their own; prefer this for display and pass it (or id) to /v1/companies. type: string ticker: description: Primary stock ticker symbol, when listed. type: string required: - id - name type: object ExternalLinkAttribute: additionalProperties: false properties: category: description: >- Broad grouping for the attribute. Today's known values are audience_size, content, profile, and account_status — the set is open and may grow without a versioning event, so clients should treat unrecognised categories as additive rather than invalid. type: string name: description: >- Platform-native attribute name (e.g. 'subscribers', 'followers', 'views', 'handle'). Vocabulary varies by platform; use Category to group related attributes if you don't recognise the Name. type: string observed_at: description: >- When this attribute was last observed from the upstream source. Omitted when unavailable. format: date-time type: string value: description: >- Attribute value. JSON type matches the Category: numbers for audience_size/content, strings for profile/account_status (with bool for flags). Null when the underlying source is unset. required: - name - value type: object ExternalLinkPlatform: additionalProperties: false properties: display_name: description: >- Human-readable name suitable for UI display (e.g. 'Apple Podcasts', 'X (Twitter)'). type: string name: description: >- Stable machine name (e.g. 'spotify', 'youtube', 'twitter'). Suitable for filtering or routing on the client. type: string type: description: >- Broad category for the platform. Use this to group presences in a UI rather than enumerating every Name. enum: - podcast_directory - music_service - social_profile - video_channel - community - website - other type: string required: - name - display_name - type type: object securitySchemes: ApiKeyHeader: description: Pass your API key in the X-API-Key header (recommended). in: header name: X-API-Key type: apiKey BearerAuth: description: Pass your API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header. scheme: bearer type: http ````