# Employee Posts API
## Overview
This section covers basic information on the Employee Posts API.
To learn more about the API and its endpoints, follow the links below:
## Employee Posts API endpoints
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Our API is a data retrieval tool. The endpoints do not support analytic features.
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Employee Posts API features two search endpoints and one collect endpoints to retrieve employee posts data.\
Use the endpoints with any API-compatible application.
| Request type | Endpoint | Function |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| POST | */v2/employee\_post/search/filter* | Search for relevant company profiles using search filters |
| POST | */v2/employee\_post/search/es\_dsl* | An Elasticsearch DSL schema that maps directly to our output data. |
| GET | */v2/employee\_post/collect/{post\_id}* | Convert the collected IDs to posts data |
## Request types
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All Employee Posts API requests must be made over HTTPS. Requests made over HTTP will fail or be redirected to HTTPS.
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Employee Posts API supports two types of requests:
* **Search** endpoints support POST requests only.
* **Collect** endpoints support GET requests only.
| Request type | Endpoint |
| ------------ | --------------------------------------- |
| POST | */v2/employee\_post/search/filter* |
| POST | */v2/employee\_post/search/es\_dsl* |
| GET | */v2/employee\_post/collect/{post\_id}* |
## Rate limits
Employee Posts API endpoints restrict the number of requests allowed per second.
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Search endpoints
Collection endpoints
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27 requests per second
54 requests per second
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## Credits
**One** search credit is deducted for **one successful (200) request** in the search endpoints:
* */v2/employee\_post/search/filter*
* */v2/employee\_post/search/es\_dsl*
**One** collect credit is deducted for **one successful (200) request** in the collection endpoints:
* */v2/employee\_post/collect/{post\_id}*
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Read more about credits in the following topic: