Examples

Searches for people by substrings of first, last name, and portal_login.
By default, searches for records where the given fields start with the query tokens.
An individual query token can be prefixed with * to switch to searching the full value of the field

GET /userinfo/v2/people/search?q=Nathan Tol
{

    "message": null,
    "result": [
        {
            "person_id": 122098,
            "first_name": "Nathan",
            "middle_name": null,
            "last_name": "Tolliver",
            "email": "nathan.tolliver@email.edu",
            "organization": "Some College",
            "portal_login": "ntolliver"
        },
        {
            "person_id": 27103,
            "first_name": "Nathan",
            "middle_name": "L",
            "last_name": "Tolbert",
            "email": "tolbert@illinois.edu",
            "organization": "National Center for Supercomputing Applications",
            "portal_login": "tolbert"
        }
    ]
}

GET /userinfo/v2/people/search?q=Nathan *Tol
{

    "message": null,
    "result": [
        {
            "person_id": 122098,
            "first_name": "Nathan",
            "middle_name": null,
            "last_name": "Atol",
            "email": "nathan.atol@email.edu",
            "organization": "Some College",
            "portal_login": "natol"
        },
        {
            "person_id": 122098,
            "first_name": "Nathan",
            "middle_name": null,
            "last_name": "Tolliver",
            "email": "nathan.tolliver@email.edu",
            "organization": "Some College",
            "portal_login": "ntolliver"
        },
        {
            "person_id": 27103,
            "first_name": "Nathan",
            "middle_name": "L",
            "last_name": "Tolbert",
            "email": "tolbert@illinois.edu",
            "organization": "National Center for Supercomputing Applications",
            "portal_login": "tolbert"
        }
    ]
}