# Real-time Employee API

## Overview

Real-time Employee API provides real-time access to the most recent employee data. It significantly accelerates data retrieval whereas profiles are scraped and returned in less than 30 seconds on a cache miss.

Use the Real-time Employee API when you need the most current data of a profile – ideal for **Sales Tech, HR, Investment and AI applications**.

| **Real-time lead enrichment**            | Enrich leads as they enter your CRM with the most up-to-date job titles, company names, and contact information. No processing delays – get fresh data when you need it. |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **On-demand prospect research**          | Validate employee data before outreach for various use cases. Catch role changes and company transitions and act on the most accurate data.                              |
| **Dynamic data retrieval for AI agents** | AI agents can fetch current employee data on demand to answer questions, verify information, or power autonomous workflows.                                              |

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Real-time Employee API endpoint</td><td><a href="#real-time-employee-api-endpoint">#real-time-employee-api-endpoint</a></td></tr><tr><td>Rate limits</td><td><a href="#rate-limits">#rate-limits</a></td></tr><tr><td>Credits</td><td><a href="#credits">#credits</a></td></tr><tr><td>Response codes</td><td><a href="../../api-introduction/response-codes#real-time-api-response-codes">#real-time-api-response-codes</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Real-time Employee API endpoint

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Real-time Employee API requests must be made over HTTPS. Requests made over HTTP will fail or be redirected to HTTPS.
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Real-time Employee API has **one search** endpoint.

| Request type | Endpoint                    | Function                                                                         |
| ------------ | --------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| POST         | */rtapi/v2/employee/scrape* | Submitting the scraping request for a specific Professional network user profile |

## Rate limits

The Real-time Employee API endpoints restrict the number of requests allowed per minute.

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Search endpoint
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50 URLs per minute
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## Credits

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Real-time Employee API credits are separated from other APIs credits. To add the credits, please reach out to your sales representative, account Manager or [contact us](https://coresignal.com/contact-us/).
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**One** search credit is deducted for **one successful (200) request** in the search endpoint:

* */rtapi/v2/employee/scrape*

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## Discover next

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="real-time-employee-api/dictionary-real-time-employee-api">Real-time Employee API dictionary</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="real-time-employee-api/post-request">Request sample</a></td></tr><tr><td><a href="real-time-employee-api/post-request/urls-validation">URL validation</a></td></tr></tbody></table>