Look up and list persons (users) in PostHog via the private persons API
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Documented steps
GET https://us.posthog.com/api/environments/:environment_id/persons/ (US) or eu.posthog.com equivalent, with Authorization: Bearer <personal_api_key> (person:read scope).
Filter to one user with ?distinct_id=<value>.
Retrieve a specific person by internal id: GET /api/environments/:environment_id/persons/:id/.
Paginate with limit and offset query params; the response includes next/previous URLs.
The response contains the person's UUID (id), all associated distinct_ids, and person properties — the UUID is what deletion endpoints need.
Docs: https://posthog.com/docs/api/persons
Known gotchas
Persons endpoints use /api/environments/:environment_id/... — the older /api/projects/ style still appears elsewhere in docs; environment_id is typically the same numeric id as project_id.
Analytics endpoints (persons included) are rate limited to 240/minute and 1200/hour team-wide.
Don't create or update persons through this API — the docs say to use the capture API ($identify/$set) or SDKs for writes; this API is for reading and deleting.
To remove a single property, POST .../persons/:id/delete_property/ with $unset rather than PATCHing properties.
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