Quickstart

Quickstart#

Introduction#

Welcome to the People Business Search service by Melissa. Search, verify and correct consumer and business data across millions of records through its powerful search engine.

People Business Search can be used to:

  • Search for individuals and businesses across the US.

  • Perform searches with partial/limited information on the address, name or company to correct records that would otherwise be unresolvable.

  • Locate individuals for billing purposes, such as tracking down people who have skipped out on their bills.

  • Validate policyholder addresses before issuing policies, to reduce the risk of fraud and errors.

  • Find potential customers by targeting your marketing campaigns to specific locations.

  • Retrieve contact phone information for an individual or business.

New to Melissa Cloud Services?#

We highly recommend first time users of our web services to review our Using Melissa Cloud APIs section. It will cover critical topics like:

System Requirements#

  • SSL/TLS 1.2+

Getting Started - What Can I Do?#

Search and Verify an individual or business name and associated address data.

/V5/WEB/contactsearch/docontactSearch

Click here to go to the full endpoint documentation.

  • GET JSON
  • POST JSON
curl -X GET "https://search.melissadata.net/v5/web/contactsearch/docontactSearch?\
&t=Test\
&id={{customerId}}\
&maxrecords=10\
&matchlevel=10\
&a1=22382+Avenida+Empresa\
&loc=RSM\
&adminarea=CA\
&postal=92688\
&anyname=Melissa+Data\
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json"

curl -X POST "https://search.melissadata.net/v5/web/contactsearch/docontactSearch" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d '{
      "TransmissionReference": "Test",
      "CustomerID": "{{customerId}}",
      "MaxRecords": "10",
      "MatchLevel": "10",
      "AddressLine1": "22382 Avenida Empresa",
      "Locality": "RSM",
      "AdministrativeArea": "CA",
      "PostalCode": "92688",
      "AnyName": "Melissa Data"
    }
   '
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