Verified Handles
Open DataGBverifiedhandles.org
Verified Handles is a public directory of the official social media handles and identifiers of notable people and organisations, run by JEM MEDIA LTD (JEMEDIA), a company registered in England and Wales. It serves each entry's title, description, entity type, images, handles and public revision history, plus full-text search and a reverse lookup that answers whose official account a given handle is.
Capabilities (6)
GET /v1/data/verifiedhandles/entries1 creditReturns up to 50 entries in one call, in the order asked: each result is either status ok with the same body as the single-entry route, or status not_found for a key that names nothing.
GET /v1/data/verifiedhandles/entry1 creditReturns one entry as its page shows it: VHID, short name, title, subtitle, entity type and kind, verification flag, HTML description with its licence and Wikipedia source, images with per-image rights, and every listed handle with platform and URL.
GET /v1/data/verifiedhandles/handle-lookup1 creditAnswers whose official account a handle is: returns every public entry listing that platform and value, with VHID, title, entry URL and the stored handle value and verification flag.
GET /v1/data/verifiedhandles/handles1 creditReturns just one entry's handles in page order, each with platform, display label, handle value and profile URL; an email address is listed with its value, label and URL all null.
GET /v1/data/verifiedhandles/history1 creditReturns one entry's public revision history newest first, a page at a time: revision id, kind, timestamp, named editor when they chose to be, summary, bot flag, source, and hidden/deleted flags.
GET /v1/data/verifiedhandles/search1 creditFull-text search over every public entry's title, short name, subtitle and description, best match first; each hit carries VHID, short name, title, subtitle, entity type, verification flag and URL.
Licence
Verified Handles publishes entry text under CC0 1.0 and says so in three places. The API description states: "Entry text is CC0, except a description taken from Wikipedia, which is CC BY-SA 4.0 (`description_license`): where you show it, show the article (`description_source.url`), the licence by name with a link ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)), and “adapted from” when `description_source.adapted` is true, and share alike. Images are licensed by their owners, and each says how (`image_rights`)." Its OpenAPI licence block reads: "CC0 1.0 (entry text, except a description taken from Wikipedia, which is CC BY-SA 4.0; images are licensed separately)", identifier CC0-1.0. The Terms of Service add: "Content on Verified Handles entries is published under the CC0 1.0 Public Domain license. This does not include images or Wikipedia excerpts, which are licensed separately — click through to see each one's license and contributors." The site footer repeats: "(CC0 1.0) Public Domain, except text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · JEMEDIA". The CC0 grant therefore covers the entry text and the structured handle data; it does not cover images, and Wikipedia-derived descriptions remain CC BY-SA 4.0 with attribution and share-alike.
https://verifiedhandles.org/policies/tosAttribution
Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.
Entry text and handle data from Verified Handles (verifiedhandles.org), by JEMEDIA, are CC0 1.0. Where a description is adapted from Wikipedia it is CC BY-SA 4.0: credit the linked Wikipedia article and its licence, and share alike. Images are licensed separately by their owners. Not affiliated with or endorsed by JEMEDIA.
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