> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.tryhuntr.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Reverse Email Lookup

> Identify the person and employer behind a work email address.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /openapi.json post /reverse-email
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Huntr — The GTM Intelligence API
  description: >-
    Give AI agents company, people, contact, and web intelligence through one
    API. Search accounts, build targeted lists, enrich leads, find contacts, and
    uncover buying signals.


    **Authentication:** Authenticated endpoints require an `x-api-key` header
    with your Huntr API key. Get a key by signing up via `POST /keys/create`.
    Public endpoints (pricing, sign-up, health) work without a key.


    **Rate limit:** 5 requests/second per API key on authenticated endpoints.
  version: 2.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://api.tryhuntr.com
security: []
tags:
  - name: Contact APIs
    description: >-
      Search people and enrich work email, phone, and reverse-email contact
      fields.
  - name: Company APIs
    description: >-
      Search companies and retrieve company-level attributes such as detected
      technology stack and active job postings.
  - name: Research APIs
    description: >-
      Research one company, person, team, or focused business question and
      return a sales-ready answer. Lite, standard, and deep tiers.
  - name: LinkedIn APIs
    description: >-
      LinkedIn URL discovery, company and profile pages, posts, reactions, and
      comments.
  - name: X APIs
    description: X profiles, posts, search results, and thread context.
  - name: Web APIs
    description: >-
      Find, scrape, and analyze pages on a domain, plus tech stack, domain
      contacts, and job postings.
  - name: Account
    description: >-
      Sign up, verify email, recover keys, check balance, view usage, add
      credits, and read the public pricing matrix.
  - name: System
    description: Health check.
paths:
  /reverse-email:
    post:
      tags:
        - Contact APIs
      summary: Reverse Email Lookup
      description: Identify the person and employer behind a work email address.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
                - email
              properties:
                email:
                  type: string
                  format: email
                  description: Work email address to look up.
            example:
              email: jane.doe@example.com
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Reverse email lookup complete.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  success:
                    type: boolean
                  request_id:
                    type: string
                  result:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      status:
                        type: string
                        description: FOUND or NOT_FOUND.
                      email:
                        type: string
                      first_name:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      last_name:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      title:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      phone:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                        description: Employee phone when found.
                      phone_type:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                        description: Employee phone type when found.
                      linkedin_url:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      email_verification_date:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      company_name:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      company_url:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      email_domain:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      company_linkedin_url:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      company_phone:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      industry:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      revenue:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      employee_count:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      address:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      city:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      region_code:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      zip:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      country_code:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                  price:
                    type: number
                    description: Plan-specific amount when a match is found.
                  credits_remaining:
                    type: number
                required:
                  - success
                  - request_id
                  - result
                  - price
                  - credits_remaining
              examples:
                found:
                  summary: Match found
                  value:
                    success: true
                    request_id: req_1746123456_re1x2y
                    result:
                      status: FOUND
                      email: jane.doe@example.com
                      first_name: Jane
                      last_name: Doe
                      title: Chief Executive Officer
                      phone: +1-555-0123
                      phone_type: direct
                      linkedin_url: https://linkedin.com/in/janedoe
                      email_verification_date: '2024-01-15'
                      company_name: Example Corp
                      company_url: https://example.com
                      email_domain: example.com
                      company_linkedin_url: https://linkedin.com/company/example
                      company_phone: +1-555-9999
                      industry: Software
                      revenue: 10M-50M
                      employee_count: 51-200
                      address: 123 Main St
                      city: San Francisco
                      region_code: CA
                      zip: '94105'
                      country_code: US
                    price: 0.0075
                    credits_remaining: 4.9925
                not_found:
                  summary: No match found
                  value:
                    success: true
                    request_id: req_1746123456_re2x3y
                    result:
                      status: NOT_FOUND
                      email: unknown@example.com
                    price: 0
                    credits_remaining: 5
        '400':
          description: Missing or invalid email.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '401':
          description: Invalid API key.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '402':
          description: Insufficient credits.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '500':
          description: Lookup failed.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
      security:
        - ApiKeyAuth: []
      x-codeSamples:
        - lang: Shell
          label: cURL
          source: |-
            curl --request POST \
              --url https://api.tryhuntr.com/reverse-email \
              --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
              --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
              --data '{
              "email": "jane.doe@example.com"
            }'
      x-code-samples:
        - lang: Shell
          label: cURL
          source: |-
            curl --request POST \
              --url https://api.tryhuntr.com/reverse-email \
              --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
              --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
              --data '{
              "email": "jane.doe@example.com"
            }'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message.
      required:
        - error
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key
      description: >-
        Your Huntr API key. Get one at tryhuntr.com. Pass as x-api-key header on
        all authenticated requests.

````

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