# Reverse Email Lookup API: Email to Person — Ravn

Canonical: https://askravn.com/features/reverse-email-lookup

Reverse email lookup

# Who is behind this email?

An inbound lead signs up with jane@acme.com. Ravn returns who she is, her title, her company and her LinkedIn from your own provider account, so sales knows before the first reply.
[Start free: 1,000 lookups](https://askravn.com/#start) [Read the docs](https://askravn.com/docs#reverse_email_lookup)

How it works
## What happens on every call.
The same tool answers over the REST API, the MCP server and the CLI.

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### Send an email or a batch
One address, or up to 100 in a single call.
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### On your own key
Ravn looks up the address in your People Data Labs account, never scraped social networks. Without a key it returns `403 provider_key_required`.
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### Drop opted-out people
Anyone on our suppression list is never returned, to anyone.
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### One lookup per call
A lookup counts as one lookup on your Ravn plan, and a miss is free.

Call it
## One request. One answer shape.
Branch on `status`. A miss returns `not_found` and costs nothing. In Claude, just ask in plain English and it picks `reverse_email_lookup` for you.

```
curl https://api.askravn.com/v1/tools/reverse_email_lookup \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $RAVN_API_KEY" \
-d '{"email": "jane@acme.com"}'

{ "status": "ok",
"results": { "full_name": "Jane Smith", "title": "Head of Growth",
"city": "Austin", "state": "texas", "linkedin_url": "https://linkedin.com/in/…",
"business_email": { "email": "jane@acme.com", "status": "valid" },
"company": { "name": "Acme", "domain": "acme.com", "size": "51-200" } },
"metadata": { "lookups_used": 1 } }
```

FAQ
## Questions about reverse_email_lookup.
[All questions →](https://askravn.com/faq)
What does a lookup cost?One lookup on your Ravn plan. The person data comes from your own People Data Labs account, so Ravn never marks up or resells records.Can I use it for credit or hiring decisions?No. Our terms forbid using Ravn data for credit, employment, insurance or housing decisions.Can someone remove themselves?Yes. Anyone can [opt out](https://askravn.com/privacy#optout) and is never returned again; Rook isn't a data broker, so there's nothing to register with California DROP.Related tools?`email_to_linkedin` returns just the LinkedIn URL; `reverse_linkedin_lookup` goes the other way.

## More tools, same key.
Every tool shares one account, one plan and one answer shape. [See pricing →](https://askravn.com/pricing)

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