Connells Group People API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Connells Website JSON API (undocumented) People API
  version: '2026-07-26'
  summary: Read-only JSON endpoints served by the Connells estate agency website.
  description: 'This is NOT a published Connells Group product. Connells Group publishes no developer portal, no documentation and no specification of any kind. This document was DERIVED by API Evangelist purely from live, anonymous, unauthenticated HTTP probes of https://www.connells.co.uk/api on 2026-07-26, and every schema below is a faithful transcription of an observed response body — nothing was invented, and no field appears here that was not returned by the live service.


    The endpoints are Next.js App Router route handlers backing the www.connells.co.uk consumer site (branch finder, people directory, testimonials wall and location autocomplete). Content is sourced from the Homeflow estate-agency platform that powers the Connells consumer estate (asset URLs resolve to *.homeflow-assets.co.uk). They are unversioned, undocumented, carry no service-level commitment, are rate limited by Cloudflare (HTTP 429 with Retry-After) and may change or disappear without notice. Treat them as an observation of the estate, not as a contract.


    The sibling Connells Group brand sites (Hamptons, Sequence, Bairstow Eves, Fox & Sons, John D Wood, Blundells, Barnard Marcus, William H Brown) run the Homeflow Rails application directly and 302-redirect /api/* to their homepage; Countrywide 301-redirects; Gascoigne Halman 404s. Only www.connells.co.uk exposes these handlers.'
  x-provenance: api-evangelist-derived-from-live-probes
  x-published-by-provider: false
  x-probe-date: '2026-07-26'
servers:
- url: https://www.connells.co.uk/api
  description: Production (undocumented, unversioned, no SLA)
tags:
- name: People
  description: Connells staff directory.
paths:
  /staff:
    get:
      operationId: listStaff
      summary: List Connells staff
      description: Returns the first page of the Connells people directory. Observed 2026-07-26 as 841 staff across 71 pages of 12. Same envelope and same non-honoured pagination behaviour as listBranches.
      tags:
      - People
      security: []
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A page of staff members.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/StaffListEnvelope'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
components:
  schemas:
    ApiError:
      type: object
      properties:
        message:
          type: string
          example: Name required for places search
    Pagination:
      type: object
      description: Pagination envelope returned by the list endpoints.
      properties:
        totalCount:
          type: integer
          example: 162
        currentPage:
          type: integer
          example: 1
        pageSize:
          type: integer
          example: 12
        pageCount:
          type: integer
          example: 14
        hasPrevPage:
          type: boolean
        hasNextPage:
          type: boolean
    StaffMember:
      type: object
      description: A Connells colleague. The same shape is embedded as a branch's `branchManager`.
      properties:
        id:
          type: integer
          example: 23232373
        slug:
          type: string
          example: paul-barron
        name:
          type: string
          example: Paul Barron
        jobTitle:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          example: Instructions Manager
        avatar:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: uri
        mobileNumber:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: Observed null on every record sampled.
        email:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: Observed null on every record sampled.
        urlLabel:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        team:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        shortBio:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        longBio:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        branchId:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
          description: Foreign key to Branch.id.
          example: 8020
    StaffListEnvelope:
      type: object
      properties:
        results:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/StaffMember'
        pagination:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pagination'
        errors:
          type:
          - array
          - 'null'
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiError'
  responses:
    RateLimited:
      description: Rate limited at the Cloudflare edge. Body is the plain-text string "Too many requests" and a Retry-After header is supplied (34 seconds observed).
      headers:
        Retry-After:
          description: Seconds to wait before retrying.
          schema:
            type: integer
          example: 34
      content:
        text/plain:
          schema:
            type: string
          example: Too many requests