Lookup a Person by Name

Endpoint

GET https://api.verifik.co/v2/face-recognition/persons/lookup

Finds persons already stored for your client by name (required) and optional date of birth. Use this when create returns 412 person_already_set, or before you enroll, so you can get the person _id and collection code values without running a 1:N face search.

This is a Mongo metadata lookup, not a face match. Digits in name are stripped the same way as create ("Maria 123" becomes "Maria"). Name match is case-insensitive contains (Maria finds Maria Perez Gonzalez). Use at least 3 characters.

Use collections[].code (36-character UUID) as collection_id on face search. Do not send the Mongo collection _id.

Headers

Name	Value
Content-Type	application/json
Authorization	Bearer <token>

Params

Name	Type	Required	Description
name	string	Yes	Partial or full name (min 3 characters after stripping digits). Case-insensitive contains.
date_of_birth	string	No	YYYY-MM-DD. When set, narrows to that day.
page	number	No	Page number (default: 1).
limit	number	No	Page size (default: 20, max: 100).

Request

Node.js

const fetch = require("node-fetch");

async function run() {
  const params = new URLSearchParams({
    name: "Maria Perez",
    date_of_birth: "1994-02-07",
    page: "1",
    limit: "20",
  });

  const res = await fetch(`https://api.verifik.co/v2/face-recognition/persons/lookup?${params}`, {
    method: "GET",
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
      Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.VERIFIK_TOKEN}`,
    },
  });
  console.log(await res.json());
}

run();

PHP

<?php
$query = http_build_query([
    "name" => "Maria Perez",
    "date_of_birth" => "1994-02-07",
    "page" => 1,
    "limit" => 20,
]);
$ch = curl_init("https://api.verifik.co/v2/face-recognition/persons/lookup?" . $query);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("VERIFIK_TOKEN"),
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $response;

Python

import os, requests

url = "https://api.verifik.co/v2/face-recognition/persons/lookup"
headers = {
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.getenv('VERIFIK_TOKEN')}",
}
params = {"name": "Maria Perez", "date_of_birth": "1994-02-07", "page": 1, "limit": 20}
r = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
print(r.json())

Go

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "io"
    "net/http"
    "os"
)

func main() {
    url := "https://api.verifik.co/v2/face-recognition/persons/lookup?name=Maria%20Perez&date_of_birth=1994-02-07&page=1&limit=20"
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
    req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
    req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("VERIFIK_TOKEN"))
    res, err := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
    fmt.Println(string(body))
}

Response

200

{
  "data": [
    {
      "_id": "693c646dfd68b59e4e8d1d58",
      "name": "Maria Perez",
      "date_of_birth": "1994-02-07",
      "gender": "F",
      "collections": [
        {
          "_id": "6612a020a55c329bfb3f62e6",
          "code": "ed27d231-b437-42c5-94c5-a2130c447d1e",
          "name": "CholloApp"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "total": 1
}

An unknown name returns 200 with "data": [] and "total": 0. That is not a 404.

409

{
  "message": "name is required",
  "code": "MissingParameter"
}

or "message": "name_too_short" when the name has fewer than 3 characters after stripping digits.

401/403

{
  "message": "Authentication required",
  "code": "UNAUTHORIZED"
}

Notes

• Prefer this helper (or the data object on 412 person_already_set) over a 1:N search when you know part of the name and optional date of birth.
• A first name alone is enough (name=Maria). Add date_of_birth when many people share that given name.
• POST /v2/face-recognition/persons uniqueness is also name + date of birth in a collection, not face similarity.
• collections[].code is the value face search expects as collection_id.