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      • GETGet worker profile by external ID
      • PATCHUpdate personal information
      • PATCHUpdate personal information by external id
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EndpointsPersonal Information

Update personal information

PATCH
/people/:worker_id/personal
PATCH
/rest/v2/people/:worker_id/personal
$curl -X PATCH https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/people/d290f1ee-6c54-4b01-90e6-d701748f0851/personal \
>     -H "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
>     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
>     -d '{
>  "body": {
>    "data": {
>      "work_email": "jane.smith@company.com",
>      "date_of_birth": "1985-07-23",
>      "phone_numbers": [
>        {
>          "type": "PERSONAL",
>          "dial_code": "+1",
>          "phone_number": "4155551234"
>        },
>        {
>          "type": "WORK",
>          "dial_code": "+1",
>          "phone_number": "4155555678"
>        }
>      ],
>      "personal_email": "jane.smith@gmail.com",
>      "preferred_name": "Jane",
>      "legal_last_name": "Smith",
>      "legal_first_name": "Jane"
>    }
>  }
>}'
1{}

Partially updates personal information for a worker by their worker ID; only fields included in the request body are modified. Token scopes: people:write

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AuthorizationBearer
## Authentication The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail. ```curl curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE' ``` [Learn more about authentication](/api/authentication)
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AuthorizationBearer

Standard OAuth2 security scheme based on https://swagger.io/docs/specification/authentication/

Path parameters

worker_idstringRequiredformat: "uuid"
Unique identifier for a worker.

Request

This endpoint expects an object.
dataobjectRequired

Response

Successful response

Errors

400
Bad Request Error
401
Unauthorized Error
403
Forbidden Error
404
Not Found Error
500
Internal Server Error

Authentication

The Deel API uses bearer tokens to authenticate requests. All API calls must be made over HTTPS — calls over plain HTTP or without authentication will fail.

1curl -X GET 'https://api.letsdeel.com/rest/v2/contracts' \
2  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR-TOKEN-HERE'

Learn more about authentication