Explorium API

Use the Explorium API via direct curl calls to enrich business and prospect data, discover leads, and track real-time business events.

Official docs: https://developers.explorium.ai/reference/introduction

When to Use

Use this skill when you need to:

• Enrich business data with firmographic, technographic, and financial information
• Discover and enrich prospects with contact details, social profiles, and professional history
• Search and match businesses by name, domain, or other identifiers
• Track business events such as funding rounds, job changes, and company updates
• Bulk process up to 50 business or prospect records in a single request

Prerequisites

1. Sign up at Explorium and purchase a subscription package
2. Log in to the Explorium Admin Portal and navigate to Access & Authentication > Getting Your API Key
3. Store your API key in the environment variable EXPLORIUM_TOKEN

export EXPLORIUM_TOKEN="your-api-key"

API Limits

• Rate limit: up to 200 queries per minute
• Bulk endpoints: up to 50 records per request
• Pagination: up to 100 records per page

How to Use

All examples below assume you have EXPLORIUM_TOKEN set.

The base URL for the Explorium API is:

• https://api.explorium.ai

The API key is passed via the api_key header in all requests.

1. Get Business Statistics

Check the total number of businesses matching your filters before fetching records:

Write to /tmp/explorium_request.json:

{
  "filters": {
    "country": {
      "values": ["United States"]
    },
    "industry": {
      "values": ["Software"]
    }
  }
}

Then run:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/businesses/stats" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "api_key: $(printenv EXPLORIUM_TOKEN)" -d @/tmp/explorium_request.json | jq .

2. Match a Business

Find a business by name or domain and get its unique business_id:

Write to /tmp/explorium_request.json:

{
  "name": "Explorium",
  "website": "explorium.ai"
}

Then run:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/businesses/match" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "api_key: $(printenv EXPLORIUM_TOKEN)" -d @/tmp/explorium_request.json | jq .

3. Fetch Businesses

Retrieve business records matching specific filters:

Write to /tmp/explorium_request.json:

{
  "mode": "full",
  "page": 1,
  "page_size": 10,
  "filters": {
    "country": {
      "values": ["United States"]
    },
    "number_of_employees": {
      "values": [{"min": 50, "max": 500}]
    }
  }
}

Then run:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/businesses" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "api_key: $(printenv EXPLORIUM_TOKEN)" -d @/tmp/explorium_request.json | jq .

4. Enrich a Business

Enrich a business with specific data categories. Replace <enrichment_name> with the enrichment type (e.g., firmographics, technographics, financial_metrics):

Write to /tmp/explorium_request.json:

{
  "business_id": "<your-business-id>"
}

Then run:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/businesses/<enrichment_name>/enrich" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "api_key: $(printenv EXPLORIUM_TOKEN)" -d @/tmp/explorium_request.json | jq .

Common enrichment types:

• firmographics - Company size, industry, location, revenue
• technographics - Technology stack and tools used
• financial_metrics - Revenue, funding, financial indicators
• social_media - Social media presence and metrics

5. Bulk Enrich Businesses

Enrich multiple businesses at once (up to 50 per request):

Write to /tmp/explorium_request.json:

{
  "business_ids": [
    "8adce3ca1cef0c986b22310e369a0793",
    "a34bacf839b923770b2c360eefa26748"
  ]
}

Then run:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/businesses/<enrichment_name>/bulk_enrich" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "api_key: $(printenv EXPLORIUM_TOKEN)" -d @/tmp/explorium_request.json | jq .

6. Fetch Prospects

Search for prospects (people) matching specific criteria:

Write to /tmp/explorium_request.json:

{
  "mode": "full",
  "page": 1,
  "page_size": 10,
  "filters": {
    "job_level": {
      "values": ["C-Level"]
    },
    "department": {
      "values": ["Engineering"]
    },
    "business_id": {
      "values": ["<your-business-id>"]
    }
  }
}

Then run:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/prospects" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "api_key: $(printenv EXPLORIUM_TOKEN)" -d @/tmp/explorium_request.json | jq .

7. Match a Prospect

Find a specific prospect by name and company:

Write to /tmp/explorium_request.json:

{
  "first_name": "John",
  "last_name": "Doe",
  "company_name": "Explorium"
}

Then run:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/prospects/match" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "api_key: $(printenv EXPLORIUM_TOKEN)" -d @/tmp/explorium_request.json | jq .

8. Enrich Prospect Contact Information

Get contact details for a specific prospect:

Write to /tmp/explorium_request.json:

{
  "prospect_id": "<your-prospect-id>"
}

Then run:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/prospects/contacts_information/enrich" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "api_key: $(printenv EXPLORIUM_TOKEN)" -d @/tmp/explorium_request.json | jq .

9. Get Prospect Statistics

Check the total number of prospects matching your filters:

Write to /tmp/explorium_request.json:

{
  "filters": {
    "job_level": {
      "values": ["C-Level", "VP"]
    },
    "business_id": {
      "values": ["<your-business-id>"]
    }
  }
}

Then run:

curl -s -X POST "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/prospects/stats" --header "Content-Type: application/json" --header "api_key: $(printenv EXPLORIUM_TOKEN)" -d @/tmp/explorium_request.json | jq .

10. Autocomplete Businesses

Search for businesses by partial name for quick lookups:

curl -s -X GET "https://api.explorium.ai/v1/businesses/autocomplete?query=explor" --header "api_key: $(printenv EXPLORIUM_TOKEN)" | jq .

Guidelines

1. Use the match endpoint first to obtain business_id or prospect_id before calling enrichment endpoints
2. Check stats before fetching to understand result set size and optimize pagination
3. Use bulk endpoints when enriching multiple records to reduce API calls and stay within rate limits
4. Paginate large result sets with page and page_size parameters (max 100 per page)
5. Store IDs for reuse since business and prospect IDs are stable identifiers
6. Monitor rate limits of 200 queries per minute to avoid throttling