Glean People API
Look up people in the enterprise knowledge graph including profile, expertise, org chart relationships, and activity.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Glean Client REST People API
version: 0.9.0
description: 'Subset of Glean''s Client REST API. Glean exposes search, chat, agents,
answers, announcements, collections, documents, people, summarize,
insights, recommendations, tools, governance, and verification endpoints
against the customer''s Glean instance.
Derived from the public OpenAPI definition published at
https://gleanwork.github.io/open-api/specs/final/client_rest.yaml'
contact:
name: Glean Developers
url: https://developers.glean.com/
servers:
- url: https://{instance}-be.glean.com/rest/api/v1
description: Glean customer instance
variables:
instance:
default: customer
description: Glean instance subdomain
security:
- bearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: People
paths:
/people:
post:
tags:
- People
summary: Look up people in the knowledge graph
operationId: people
responses:
'200':
description: OK
/people/{person_id}/photo:
get:
tags:
- People
summary: Get a person's profile photo
operationId: getPersonPhoto
parameters:
- name: person_id
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: OK
components:
securitySchemes:
bearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
bearerFormat: JWT
description: 'Glean API token, passed as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`'