ContactOut Decision Makers API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: ContactOut Decision Makers API
  version: v1
  summary: 'B2B contact data: people and company enrichment, search, contact checks, email verification, campaigns and usage stats.'
  description: Welcome to ContactOut's API. Find anyone's email & phone number 10x faster with the most powerful sales and recruitment intelligence software available. (Generated from the published API reference at https://api.contactout.com; every operation carries x-source pointing at the section it was read from.)
  contact:
    name: ContactOut
    url: https://contactout.com/meeting?utm_source=api_docs
  termsOfService: https://contactout.com/terms
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-generated-on: '2026-10-07'
  x-generator: 'api-evangelist enrichment pass: deterministic parse of the Slate API reference HTML (headings, parameter tables, example blocks); the pipeline generator generate-contract-from-docs.py was run first and its path-collapse heuristic merged the literal resources linkedin/email/domain into a {v1id} template, so its output was replaced by this parse'
servers:
- url: https://api.contactout.com
security:
- apiToken: []
tags:
- name: Decision Makers API
paths:
  /v1/people/decision-makers:
    get:
      summary: Decision Makers API
      tags:
      - Decision Makers API
      operationId: decisionMakers
      description: GET https://api.contactout.com/v1/people/decision-makers?{domain=&name=&linkedin_url=&reveal_info=}
      x-source: https://api.contactout.com#usage-stats-http-request
      x-section: Decision Makers API
      parameters:
      - name: linkedin_url
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: The fully formed URL of the company's LinkedIn profile. URL must begin with http and must contain linkedin.com/company/. Accepts both the numeric or string version of the URL, e.g. https://linkedin.com/company/contactout or https://linkedin.com/company/27090845 (string, optional)
      - name: domain
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: The domain name of the company's website, e.g. example.com (string, optional)
      - name: name
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: The name of the company (string, optional)
      - name: page
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Provides results for the given page (integer, optional)
      - name: reveal_info
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: boolean
          default: 'false'
        description: 'If set to true, contact_info will contain the emails and phone numbers of the profile and credits will be charged (boolean, default: false)'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/DecisionMakersResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadCredentials'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
      x-cost:
      - Consumes 1 search credit for each profile returned.
      - Consumes 1 email/phone credit for every profile where email/phone info is found, if reveal_info=true is specified.
components:
  responses:
    Forbidden:
      description: 'You''re out of credits, please email your sales manager or book a meeting; or: No access to endpoint'
    RateLimited:
      description: 'Rate limit reached. Check header retry-after: <time_in_seconds> for when rate limit will reset'
      headers:
        retry-after:
          schema:
            type: integer
          description: Seconds until the rate limit resets
    BadCredentials:
      description: Bad credentials or invalid headers
    BadRequest:
      description: Bad request or invalid input
  schemas:
    DecisionMakersResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        contact_info:
          type: array
          items: {}
          description: Returns an array containing contact information including email and phone numbers (array)
        contact_availability:
          type: array
          items: {}
          description: Returns an array determining whether the profile contains the contact information (array)
  securitySchemes:
    apiToken:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: token
      description: 'ContactOut uses API keys to allow access to the API. You can request an API key by booking a meeting. ContactOut expects the API key to be included in all API requests to the server in a header that looks like the following: token : <YOUR_API_TOKEN>'
externalDocs:
  url: https://api.contactout.com
  description: ContactOut API Reference
x-rate-limits:
- 'People Search API: 60 requests per minute'
- 'Contact Checker APIs: 150 requests per minute'
- 'Other APIs: 1000 requests per minute'