# MDataAccess People Search

> MDataAccess People Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.mdataaccess.com, paid per call via x402, $0.35/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Search for a single person's professional profile using a SQL query against the People Data Labs (PDL) dataset, returning enriched contact and career data.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.mdataaccess.com/people/search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.35/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-11
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mdataaccess-people-search-00fb5b3f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_3UDa76PGlOZcClo0qsMTo

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability mdataaccess-people-search-00fb5b3f
```

Example prompt: Search for the professional profile of Jane Smith who works at Acme Corp as a marketing director — I need her current job title, company, and any contact details available.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to look up a single person's professional profile using flexible SQL-style filtering (by name, email, employer, title, location, etc.) and want pay-per-request access without a subscription. It is backed by People Data Labs, making it suitable for B2B lead enrichment, sales prospecting, and contact verification. Prefer this over generic web search when you need structured, machine-readable professional data with consistent fields.

## Known failure modes

- SQL query matches no person — empty data object returned
- Malformed SQL query syntax causes a 400 error
- Payment not settled (402) — x402 payment flow must complete before data is returned
- Query matches more than the intended person — SQL must be specific enough to uniquely identify one record
- Rate limiting or quota exceeded on PDL backend
- Missing or invalid 'sql' query parameter returns a validation error

## How this service works

MDataAccess gives AI agents pay-per-request access to business, people, company, lead, and web data through a machine-native x402 API.

## Output

Returns a single JSON person profile object sourced from People Data Labs (PDL), including fields such as full name, current job title, employer, location, email addresses, phone numbers, social media handles, and employment history. The response wraps the data under a 'data' key with a 'provider' field indicating 'pdl'.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "sql"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "sql": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "PDL Person Search SQL query. Exactly one profile is returned per call."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "provider",
      "data"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "data": {
       "type": "object"
      },
      "provider": {
       "type": "string"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {},
  "provider": "pdl"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/mdataaccess-people-search-00fb5b3f/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.mdataaccess.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.mdataaccess.com/llms.txt)