# Skip Trace People Search API (stableapify.dev)

> Skip Trace People Search API (stableapify.dev) is a paid API for AI agents from stableapify.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, not verified (last probed 2026-10-22); live alternatives: PDL Person Search ($0.04) and OneShotAgent People & Contact Discovery ($0.01).

Agents call it through Zero, which pays per call: no API key and no wallet of your own. New accounts start with $5.

Live alternatives for the same use case:
- [PDL Person Search](https://www.zero.xyz/c/pdl-person-search-ebdccfd4) ($0.04)
- [OneShotAgent People & Contact Discovery](https://www.zero.xyz/c/oneshotagent-people-contact-discovery-0da37dd4) ($0.01)

Starts an Apify skip trace actor run that locates hard-to-find individuals by searching across major people-search databases including TruePeopleSearch, FastPeopleSearch, Truthfinder, Spokeo, and BeenVerified.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://stableapify.dev/api/actors/one-api/skip-trace/call?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/skip-trace-people-search-api-stableapify-dev-f0ce76da
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Dsn6Z7YbvvOCr3vZ77Wlz

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 skip-trace-people-search-api-stableapify-dev-f0ce76da -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you skip trace the person with username 'johndoe1985' and pull back their contact info from people-search sites like Spokeo and BeenVerified — include email if available, and use 1024 MB of memory for the run.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to locate hard-to-find individuals by aggregating across multiple people-search databases simultaneously (TruePeopleSearch, Spokeo, BeenVerified, Truthfinder, etc.) rather than querying a single source. It is well-suited for skip tracing use cases in debt recovery, lead generation, reconnecting with individuals, or investigative research. Prefer this over single-source lookups when breadth of search coverage matters and you can tolerate asynchronous batch execution.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or non-existent username returns an empty dataset
- Actor run fails to start if memory allocation is insufficient
- Token expiry (30-day JWT) prevents dataset retrieval if results are fetched too late
- Person not found in any aggregated database results in no contact records
- Rate limits or actor quota exceeded returns an error status
- Missing required input fields causes the actor run to reject the request

## How this service works

Start the "Skip Trace" Apify actor (one-api/skip-trace). Locate hard-to-find individuals with our powerful skip trace/tracing API. TruePeopleSearch, Fastpeoplesearch, Lead Finder, Truthfinder, Spokeo, BeenVerified, P…

## Output

Returns a run object containing the actor run ID, status (READY/RUNNING/SUCCEEDED), actor ID, start timestamp, total usage in USD, and a default dataset ID where results will be stored. Also returns a signed JWT token used to fetch the resulting dataset once the run completes.

## Example request

```json
{
 "input": {
  "username": "sarptecimer",
  "includeEmail": false
 },
 "options": {
  "memory": 1024
 }
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "max_results"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "name": {
     "type": "array",
     "items": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "description": "You can search by only 'name' or with '(name;citystatezip)'"
    },
    "email": {
     "type": "array",
     "items": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "description": "Search by Email Address"
    },
    "max_results": {
     "type": "integer",
     "default": 1,
     "maximum": 10,
     "minimum": -9007199254740991,
     "description": "When you search for a name/address/phone, it finds many related persons. Set how many to scrape for each search. Default:1"
    },
    "phone_number": {
     "type": "array",
     "items": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "description": "Search by Phone Number"
    },
    "street_citystatezip": {
     "type": "array",
     "items": {
      "type": "string"
     },
     "description": "Separate Street and citystatezip by semicolon(;)"
    }
   },
   "description": "Normalized actor input. See field descriptions for the simplified shape; native Apify input also accepted (passed through).",
   "additionalProperties": {}
  },
  "options": {
   "type": "object",
   "properties": {
    "build": {
     "type": "string",
     "maxLength": 100,
     "minLength": 1
    },
    "memory": {
     "type": "integer",
     "maximum": 32768,
     "minimum": 128
    },
    "maxItems": {
     "type": "integer",
     "maximum": 100000,
     "minimum": 1
    }
   },
   "description": "Optional Apify run options.",
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/skip-trace-people-search-api-stableapify-dev-f0ce76da/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from stableapify.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/stableapify.dev/llms.txt)