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Start a prospecting job

Starts a bounded public prospecting job for an account group through the integrations API.

POST/v1/accounts/{accountGroupId}/prospecting

Credit consumption

Each imported prospect costs 1 credit, or 2 credits when searchEmails is enabled. Insufficient credits return 402 INSUFFICIENT_CREDITS.

Result limits

maxResults is capped by plan: Tester 100, Starter 1,000, Scale and Enterprise 2,000. url_upload ignores maxResults and imports according to the supplied URL list.

Source requirements

linkedin_search requires searchUrl, sales_navigator requires savedSearchId or leadListId, post_commenters requires postUrl, and url_upload requires 1-1000 LinkedIn profile URLs.

Asynchronous job

Prospecting jobs run asynchronously and may take several minutes depending on the search size. Use the job status endpoint to poll for completion.

Integration notes

Required API permission

prospecting:write.

Prerequisites

integration_api_key, account_group_access, valid_prospecting_request.

Idempotency

send a stable Idempotency-Key header when retrying this request.

Parameters

accountGroupIdPath

Type: string

Account group ID that scopes the request.

Required

Request body

Required

Optional

Content types

application/json

Responses

200

Existing completed prospecting job replayed for the same request

Schema: ProspectingJobStartSuccessResponse

202

Job created

Schema: ProspectingJobStartSuccessResponse

400

Request validation failed

Schema: ValidationErrorResponse

401

Invalid or missing API key

Schema: ErrorResponse

403

Missing required permission

Schema: ErrorResponse

409

Conflict — resource is in a state that prevents this operation

Schema: ErrorResponse

429

Rate limit exceeded

Schema: ErrorResponse

500

Internal server error

Schema: ErrorResponse

502

Upstream service error

Schema: ErrorResponse

Response examples

200 Example JSONProspectingJobStartSuccessResponse
{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "jobId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011",
        "status": "queued",
        "createdAt": "2026-04-28T15:30:00.000Z"
    },
    "error": null,
    "traceId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011"
}
202 Example JSONProspectingJobStartSuccessResponse
{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "jobId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011",
        "status": "queued",
        "createdAt": "2026-04-28T15:30:00.000Z"
    },
    "error": null,
    "traceId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011"
}
400 Example JSONValidationErrorResponse
{
    "success": false,
    "data": null,
    "error": {
        "code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
        "message": "Thanks for the context. I can send over details this afternoon.",
        "details": "string"
    },
    "traceId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011"
}
401 Example JSONErrorResponse
{
    "success": false,
    "data": null,
    "error": {
        "code": "string",
        "message": "Thanks for the context. I can send over details this afternoon.",
        "details": "string"
    },
    "traceId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011"
}
403 Example JSONErrorResponse
{
    "success": false,
    "data": null,
    "error": {
        "code": "string",
        "message": "Thanks for the context. I can send over details this afternoon.",
        "details": "string"
    },
    "traceId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011"
}
409 Example JSONErrorResponse
{
    "success": false,
    "data": null,
    "error": {
        "code": "string",
        "message": "Thanks for the context. I can send over details this afternoon.",
        "details": "string"
    },
    "traceId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011"
}
429 Example JSONErrorResponse
{
    "success": false,
    "data": null,
    "error": {
        "code": "string",
        "message": "Thanks for the context. I can send over details this afternoon.",
        "details": "string"
    },
    "traceId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011"
}
500 Example JSONErrorResponse
{
    "success": false,
    "data": null,
    "error": {
        "code": "string",
        "message": "Thanks for the context. I can send over details this afternoon.",
        "details": "string"
    },
    "traceId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011"
}
502 Example JSONErrorResponse
{
    "success": false,
    "data": null,
    "error": {
        "code": "string",
        "message": "Thanks for the context. I can send over details this afternoon.",
        "details": "string"
    },
    "traceId": "507f1f77bcf86cd799439011"
}