herohunt

Official Python SDK for the HeroHunt People Search API. Search and enrich talent profiles across LinkedIn, GitHub, and StackOverflow with one natural-language call.

• Synchronous and asynchronous clients sharing the same surface
• Fully typed (pydantic v2 models, py.typed marker, mypy --strict clean)
• Automatic retries with exponential backoff and Retry-After support
• Per-response credit + rate-limit metadata
• 100% test coverage of public endpoints

Install

pip install herohunt

Get an API key

Sign up at herohunt.ai/api/sign-up. The free tier gives you credits to play with right away.

Export your key once:

export HEROHUNT_API_KEY=ps_live_your_key

Quick start

from herohunt import HeroHunt

client = HeroHunt()  # reads HEROHUNT_API_KEY from env

result = client.people_search.search(
    "Senior React engineers in Berlin with TypeScript",
    max_results=50,
    enrich=True,
)

print(f"Found {result.total_results} profiles")
for profile in result.results:
    print(f"- {profile.first_name} {profile.last_name} — {profile.headline}")
    print(f"  {profile.profile_url}")
    if profile.emails:
        print(f"  Email: {profile.emails[0].value}")

Paginate the same search for free

page_2 = client.people_search.paginate(result.search_id, page=2)

Async

import asyncio
from herohunt import AsyncHeroHunt

async def main() -> None:
    async with AsyncHeroHunt() as client:
        result = await client.people_search.search(
            "Staff Go engineers in San Francisco",
            max_results=25,
        )
        for profile in result.results:
            print(profile.first_name, profile.headline)

asyncio.run(main())

Account & billing

usage = client.account.usage()
print(f"Plan: {usage.plan}")
print(f"Credits: {usage.credits_remaining}/{usage.credits_total}")
print(f"Rate limit: {usage.rate_limit} req/min")

history = client.account.searches(limit=10)
for past in history.items:
    print(past.created_at, past.query, past.total_results)

API keys

key = client.api_keys.create("CI bot")
print(key.api_key)  # full key shown ONLY ONCE — store it now

for k in client.api_keys.list():
    print(k.key_prefix, k.name, k.scopes)

# Rotate or revoke
client.api_keys.rotate(key_id="...")
client.api_keys.revoke(key_id="...")

Errors

Every error inherits from HeroHuntError, so catching that is always safe. The SDK exposes typed subclasses so you can branch on the failure mode without parsing strings.

from herohunt import (
    HeroHunt,
    AuthenticationError,
    InsufficientCreditsError,
    RateLimitError,
)

client = HeroHunt()

try:
    result = client.people_search.search("Backend engineers in Lisbon")
except AuthenticationError:
    print("Bad or revoked API key — generate a new one at the dashboard.")
except InsufficientCreditsError as exc:
    print(f"Out of credits: {exc.credits_remaining} left. Resets {exc.credit_reset_date}.")
except RateLimitError as exc:
    print(f"Slow down — retry in {exc.retry_after}s.")

Inspecting credit usage

Every response object carries a response_meta field built from the response headers:

result = client.people_search.search("Data engineers in Toronto", max_results=30)
print(result.response_meta.credits_used)       # e.g. 30
print(result.response_meta.credits_remaining)  # remaining balance
print(result.response_meta.request_id)         # to share with support

Configuration

from herohunt import HeroHunt

client = HeroHunt(
    api_key="ps_live_...",                   # or HEROHUNT_API_KEY env var
    base_url="https://api.herohunt.ai",       # or HEROHUNT_BASE_URL env var
    timeout=120.0,                            # seconds, applied per call
    max_retries=2,                            # 429 / 5xx auto-retries
    default_headers={"X-My-Trace": "..."},   # added to every request
)

Pass a custom httpx.Client / httpx.AsyncClient via http_client= to plug in your own transport, proxy, or instrumentation.

Resources

• API reference: herohunt.ai/people-search-api/docs
• OpenAPI spec: api.herohunt.ai/people-api-docs
• Product page: herohunt.ai/people-search-api
• MCP server companion: herohunt-mcp on npm
• Issue tracker: github.com/herohunt-ai/herohunt-python/issues

License

MIT — see LICENSE.