Verified Handles
verifiedhandles.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.
GET /v1/data/verifiedhandles/entries1Request
Comma-separated VHIDs, short names or old names, at most 50 and at most 4,096 characters; order is preserved.
curl "https://api.fastcrw.com/v1/data/verifiedhandles/entries?ids=james%2Cobama" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $FASTCRW_API_KEY"
2Response example
A sample shape. Press Run to see live data from Verified Handles.
| key | status | entity |
|---|---|---|
| james | ok | {"vhid":"53500361835","short":"james","title":"James Haworth","subtitle":"Software engineer and founder of Verified Handles","entity_type":"person","entity_kind":"person","verified":true,"description":"<p><strong>James Haworth</strong> is a British software engineer and the founder of <a class=\"vh-link\" href=\"/verifiedhandles\">Verified Handles</a>, a public directory of the official social media handles of notable people and organisations. Since 2023 Haworth has studied for a BEng in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, with a year in industry, at the <a class=\"vh-link\" href=\"/UoY\">University of York</a>.</p><h2>Verified Handles and JEMEDIA</h2><p>According to Haworth's personal website, Haworth founded Verified Handles in November 2020 and is its lead developer. In 2026 Haworth <a href=\"https://j-h.ai/work/verified-handles\">rebuilt the site</a> as a single TypeScript and PostgreSQL platform, replacing its earlier MediaWiki software, PHP code and Python bots, and migrated all 591k historical revisions with zero data loss; the new platform went live in September 2026.</p><p>Haworth also founded <a class=\"vh-link\" href=\"/JEM\">JEMEDIA</a> (JEM MEDIA LTD), which builds and runs Verified Handles and the JEMEDIA Accounts sign-in service. According to Haworth, JEMEDIA has traded since May 2020; it was registered as a company in England and Wales in March 2025.</p><h2>Career</h2><p>Haworth's website lists a year-long industrial placement as a software engineering intern at <a class=\"vh-link\" href=\"/ETAS\">ETAS</a> (Bosch Group) from July 2025 to July 2026, followed by a part-time role with the company as a field application engineer since July 2026. Haworth also works as a cyber security and IT engineer for the pathology consultancy <a class=\"vh-link\" href=\"/RosettaPath\">RosettaPath</a>, a role first held from 2024 to 2025 and resumed in July 2026. Earlier roles include software developer at York Community Consulting, and web development intern and then website and SEO strategist at <a class=\"vh-link\" href=\"/yorkwines\">York Wines</a>, both in 2024–2025.</p><h2>Open-source projects</h2><p>Haworth's public projects on GitHub include Counting House, a local-first pe…","description_source":null,"description_license":null,"url":"https://verifiedhandles.org/james","image":"/img/w/480jpg95/894762","image_rights":{"source":"upload","license":"supplied","license_name":"Supplied by the subject","license_url":null,"freely_licensed":false,"credit":"© 2026 James Haworth","source_page":null,"details_url":"https://verifiedhandles.org/james/image"},"images":[{"url":"/img/w/480jpg95/894762","main":true,"image_rights":{"source":"upload","license":"supplied","license_name":"Supplied by the subject","license_url":null,"freely_licensed":false,"credit":"© 2026 James Haworth","source_page":null,"details_url":"https://verifiedhandles.org/james/image"},"link":null}],"handles":[{"platform":"realhandles","name":"RealHandles","category":"identifier","value":"jameshaworthcs","display":null,"url":"https://realhandles.com/jameshaworthcs","verified":false},{"platform":"verifiedhandles_ref","name":"Verified Handles","category":"social","value":"james","display":null,"url":"https://verifiedhandles.org/james","verified":false},{"platform":"website","name":"Website","category":"website","value":"https://jhaworth.ai","display":"jhaworth.ai","url":"https://jhaworth.ai","verified":false},{"platform":"website","name":"Website","category":"website","value":"https://j-h.ai","display":null,"url":"https://j-h.ai","verified":false},{"platform":"twitter","name":"X (Twitter)","category":"social","value":"jameshaworthcs","display":null,"url":"https://x.com/jameshaworthcs","verified":false},{"platform":"instagram","name":"Instagram","category":"social","value":"jameshaworthcs","display":null,"url":"https://instagram.com/jameshaworthcs","verified":false},{"platform":"linkedin","name":"LinkedIn","category":"social","value":"jameshaworthcs","display":null,"url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameshaworthcs","verified":false},{"platform":"github","name":"GitHub","category":"social","value":"jameshaworthcs","display":null,"url":"https://github.com/jameshaworthcs","verified":false,"checked":{"verdict":"live","at":"2026-10-17T01:23:59.021Z"}},{"platform":"email","name":"Email","category":"messaging","value":null,"display":null,"url":null,"verified":false}]} |
| obama | not_found |
Attribution: 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.
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.
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Many entries at once
Use Verified Handles (verifiedhandles) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Many entries at once" (entries). You already hold several VHIDs or short names and want all their records in one request instead of one call per person. Example options: ids=james,obama. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "verifiedhandles" and capability "entries". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>
Entry by VHID or short name
Use Verified Handles (verifiedhandles) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Entry by VHID or short name" (entry). You have a person's or organisation's Verified Handles VHID or short name and want their official handles, description and images in one record. Example options: vhid=james. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "verifiedhandles" and capability "entry". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>
Find entries by handle
Use Verified Handles (verifiedhandles) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Find entries by handle" (handle-lookup). You have a social media handle and need to know which notable person or organisation it officially belongs to. Example options: platform=twitter, value=BarackObama. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "verifiedhandles" and capability "handle-lookup". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>
Handles of an entry
Use Verified Handles (verifiedhandles) from fastCRW Pergamon, capability "Handles of an entry" (handles). You only need the list of official accounts for a person or organisation, not the rest of the entry. Example options: vhid=james. Use the crw MCP tools: crw_find_data to confirm the source and its options, then crw_get_data with provider "verifiedhandles" and capability "handles". Tell me the credits used and cite the licence from the response. If the crw MCP tools are missing, install them with: npx -y crw-mcp install --api-key <your fastCRW API key>