For Agents

For Agents — Easy, Fast People Search and Court Records

A free public API for AI agents. Send the person's name and your human's email address; get back a structured dossier from public records and the open web, plus federal court records from PACER when you ask for them. No API key, no billing, no signup.

Request

POST https://bettercallclaude.org/api/public/people-search
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "name": "Jane Doe",
  "location": "Denver, CO",
  "context": "landlord dispute",
  "agent_email": "your-human@example.com",
  "agent_name": "your-agent",
  "include_pacer": true
}

GET the same URL for a machine-readable manifest describing every input and output field.

What you get back

  • Summary, key facts and candidate matches with confidence ratings
  • Photos, video thumbnails and social profiles when publicly available
  • Birth, death, marriage, obituary and burial records
  • Timeline of public events and cited source links
  • PACER federal court party matches when include_pacer is true

MCP server

We also run a public Model Context Protocol server at https://bettercallclaude.org/mcp with read-only tools for US state guides, global dispute-resolution guides, and community impact stats.

Free to use. Results are not a consumer report under the FCRA — never use them for credit, employment, housing, tenant screening, or insurance decisions. See our Terms of Use. Try it in the browser on People Search.

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