Overview - Corsair

Use People Data Labs through Corsair: one client, typed API calls, local DB sync. What you get:

12 typed API operations
2 synced entities (companies, people) for fast .search() / .list()

Setup

Install

npm install corsair @corsair-dev/pdl

yarn add corsair @corsair-dev/pdl

pnpm install corsair @corsair-dev/pdl

bun add corsair @corsair-dev/pdl

Add the plugin

corsair.ts

import Database from 'better-sqlite3';
import { createCorsair } from 'corsair';
import { pdl } from '@corsair-dev/pdl';

export const corsair = createCorsair({
	plugins: [
		pdl(),
	],
	database: new Database('corsair.db'),
	kek: process.env.CORSAIR_KEK!,
	hub: {
		projectApiKey: process.env.CORSAIR_API_KEY!,
		signingSecret: process.env.CORSAIR_SIGNING_SECRET!,
	},
});

Multi-tenancy is the default — scope calls with corsair.withTenant(id). See Quick start for KEK + Hub keys, and Multi-tenancy for account isolation.

Choose authentication

API Key (Recommended)

No setup required yet. When you make your first request as a tenant, Corsair prompts for the API key.

pdl()

More: API Key

Connect a tenant

Mint a connect link and send the tenant to it. Hub hosts the page and delivers the result to your app — see Connect / OAuth.

const { connectUrl } = await corsair.manage.connect.createLink({
	plugin: 'pdl',
	tenantId: 'acme',
});
// redirect the user's browser to connectUrl

Example API calls

Enrich a person profile

const tenant = corsair.withTenant('acme');
await tenant.pdl.api.person.enrich({ profile: 'linkedin.com/in/gracehopper', min_likelihood: 8 });

Search the person dataset

const tenant = corsair.withTenant('acme');
await tenant.pdl.api.person.search({
	query: {
		term: { job_company_name: 'people data labs' },
	},
	size: 10,
});

See the full list on the API page.

Query synced data

Matched people are stored by their PDL person id when a database is configured, so re-enriching the same profile refreshes the row instead of duplicating it.

const tenant = corsair.withTenant('acme');
const rows = await tenant.pdl.db.people.search({
	data: { pdlId: 'person_abc', name: 'grace hopper' },
	limit: 50,
});

Synced entities: companies, people. See Database for filters and operators.

What’s next

API reference

Every pdl.api.* operation with input and output types.

Database

Synced entities, search filters, and operators.

Connect / OAuth

createLink, Hub delivery, and tenant connect flows.

Use with agents

Expose this plugin’s operations as MCP tools.

​Setup

​Example API calls

​Query synced data

​What’s next