Update a public person
curl --request PATCH \
--url https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id} \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"first_name": "<string>",
"last_name": "<string>",
"document_id": "<string>",
"birth_date": "2023-12-25",
"age": 60,
"location": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"contact_person_first_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_last_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_phone": "<string>",
"contact_person_email": "jsmith@example.com",
"is_public": true,
"found_notes": "<string>",
"found_at": "<string>",
"found_city": "<string>",
"finder_name": "<string>",
"finder_phone": "<string>"
}
'import requests
url = "https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}"
payload = {
"first_name": "<string>",
"last_name": "<string>",
"document_id": "<string>",
"birth_date": "2023-12-25",
"age": 60,
"location": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"contact_person_first_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_last_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_phone": "<string>",
"contact_person_email": "jsmith@example.com",
"is_public": True,
"found_notes": "<string>",
"found_at": "<string>",
"found_city": "<string>",
"finder_name": "<string>",
"finder_phone": "<string>"
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'PATCH',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
first_name: '<string>',
last_name: '<string>',
document_id: '<string>',
birth_date: '2023-12-25',
age: 60,
location: '<string>',
description: '<string>',
contact_person_first_name: '<string>',
contact_person_last_name: '<string>',
contact_person_phone: '<string>',
contact_person_email: 'jsmith@example.com',
is_public: true,
found_notes: '<string>',
found_at: '<string>',
found_city: '<string>',
finder_name: '<string>',
finder_phone: '<string>'
})
};
fetch('https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PATCH",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'first_name' => '<string>',
'last_name' => '<string>',
'document_id' => '<string>',
'birth_date' => '2023-12-25',
'age' => 60,
'location' => '<string>',
'description' => '<string>',
'contact_person_first_name' => '<string>',
'contact_person_last_name' => '<string>',
'contact_person_phone' => '<string>',
'contact_person_email' => 'jsmith@example.com',
'is_public' => true,
'found_notes' => '<string>',
'found_at' => '<string>',
'found_city' => '<string>',
'finder_name' => '<string>',
'finder_phone' => '<string>'
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"document_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"birth_date\": \"2023-12-25\",\n \"age\": 60,\n \"location\": \"<string>\",\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_email\": \"jsmith@example.com\",\n \"is_public\": true,\n \"found_notes\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_at\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_city\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_phone\": \"<string>\"\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.patch("https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"document_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"birth_date\": \"2023-12-25\",\n \"age\": 60,\n \"location\": \"<string>\",\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_email\": \"jsmith@example.com\",\n \"is_public\": true,\n \"found_notes\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_at\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_city\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_phone\": \"<string>\"\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"document_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"birth_date\": \"2023-12-25\",\n \"age\": 60,\n \"location\": \"<string>\",\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_email\": \"jsmith@example.com\",\n \"is_public\": true,\n \"found_notes\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_at\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_city\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_phone\": \"<string>\"\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": {
"id": "<string>",
"first_name": "<string>",
"last_name": "<string>",
"is_minor": true,
"document_type": "cedula",
"document_id": "<string>",
"birth_date": "2023-12-25",
"age": 1,
"age_label": "<string>",
"gender": {
"handle": "female",
"label": "<string>"
},
"location": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"status": {
"handle": "missing",
"label": "<string>"
},
"photo_url": "<string>",
"found_notes": "<string>",
"found_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"finder_name": "<string>",
"finder_phone": "<string>",
"hospital": {
"handle": "miguel_perez_carreno",
"label": "<string>"
},
"hospital_status": {
"handle": "admitted",
"label": "<string>"
},
"verified_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"verified_by": "<string>",
"created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"sources": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"handle": "form",
"label": "<string>",
"url": "<string>",
"source_id": "<string>",
"notes": "<string>",
"created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}
],
"tips": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"person_id": "<string>",
"sender_name": "<string>",
"sender_phone": "<string>",
"message": "<string>",
"created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}
],
"contact_person_first_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_last_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_phone": "<string>",
"contact_person_email": "<string>",
"contact_person_relationship": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"errors": {
"first_name": [
"First name is required."
]
}
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Backend is temporarily unavailable. Try again shortly."
}Persons
Update a public person
Requires persons:write and matching source ownership. Existing minor or health-sensitive records also require persons:sensitive:read. Person visibility and permissions are checked before the JSON body is validated.
PATCH
/
persons
/
{person_id}
Update a public person
curl --request PATCH \
--url https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id} \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '
{
"first_name": "<string>",
"last_name": "<string>",
"document_id": "<string>",
"birth_date": "2023-12-25",
"age": 60,
"location": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"contact_person_first_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_last_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_phone": "<string>",
"contact_person_email": "jsmith@example.com",
"is_public": true,
"found_notes": "<string>",
"found_at": "<string>",
"found_city": "<string>",
"finder_name": "<string>",
"finder_phone": "<string>"
}
'import requests
url = "https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}"
payload = {
"first_name": "<string>",
"last_name": "<string>",
"document_id": "<string>",
"birth_date": "2023-12-25",
"age": 60,
"location": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"contact_person_first_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_last_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_phone": "<string>",
"contact_person_email": "jsmith@example.com",
"is_public": True,
"found_notes": "<string>",
"found_at": "<string>",
"found_city": "<string>",
"finder_name": "<string>",
"finder_phone": "<string>"
}
headers = {
"Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {
method: 'PATCH',
headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
body: JSON.stringify({
first_name: '<string>',
last_name: '<string>',
document_id: '<string>',
birth_date: '2023-12-25',
age: 60,
location: '<string>',
description: '<string>',
contact_person_first_name: '<string>',
contact_person_last_name: '<string>',
contact_person_phone: '<string>',
contact_person_email: 'jsmith@example.com',
is_public: true,
found_notes: '<string>',
found_at: '<string>',
found_city: '<string>',
finder_name: '<string>',
finder_phone: '<string>'
})
};
fetch('https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PATCH",
CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
'first_name' => '<string>',
'last_name' => '<string>',
'document_id' => '<string>',
'birth_date' => '2023-12-25',
'age' => 60,
'location' => '<string>',
'description' => '<string>',
'contact_person_first_name' => '<string>',
'contact_person_last_name' => '<string>',
'contact_person_phone' => '<string>',
'contact_person_email' => 'jsmith@example.com',
'is_public' => true,
'found_notes' => '<string>',
'found_at' => '<string>',
'found_city' => '<string>',
'finder_name' => '<string>',
'finder_phone' => '<string>'
]),
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>",
"Content-Type: application/json"
],
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}package main
import (
"fmt"
"strings"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}"
payload := strings.NewReader("{\n \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"document_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"birth_date\": \"2023-12-25\",\n \"age\": 60,\n \"location\": \"<string>\",\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_email\": \"jsmith@example.com\",\n \"is_public\": true,\n \"found_notes\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_at\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_city\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_phone\": \"<string>\"\n}")
req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)
req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.patch("https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.header("Content-Type", "application/json")
.body("{\n \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"document_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"birth_date\": \"2023-12-25\",\n \"age\": 60,\n \"location\": \"<string>\",\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_email\": \"jsmith@example.com\",\n \"is_public\": true,\n \"found_notes\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_at\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_city\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_phone\": \"<string>\"\n}")
.asString();require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
url = URI("https://api.venezuelateayuda.com/v1/persons/{person_id}")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"document_id\": \"<string>\",\n \"birth_date\": \"2023-12-25\",\n \"age\": 60,\n \"location\": \"<string>\",\n \"description\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_first_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_last_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_phone\": \"<string>\",\n \"contact_person_email\": \"jsmith@example.com\",\n \"is_public\": true,\n \"found_notes\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_at\": \"<string>\",\n \"found_city\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_name\": \"<string>\",\n \"finder_phone\": \"<string>\"\n}"
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body{
"data": {
"id": "<string>",
"first_name": "<string>",
"last_name": "<string>",
"is_minor": true,
"document_type": "cedula",
"document_id": "<string>",
"birth_date": "2023-12-25",
"age": 1,
"age_label": "<string>",
"gender": {
"handle": "female",
"label": "<string>"
},
"location": "<string>",
"description": "<string>",
"status": {
"handle": "missing",
"label": "<string>"
},
"photo_url": "<string>",
"found_notes": "<string>",
"found_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"finder_name": "<string>",
"finder_phone": "<string>",
"hospital": {
"handle": "miguel_perez_carreno",
"label": "<string>"
},
"hospital_status": {
"handle": "admitted",
"label": "<string>"
},
"verified_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"verified_by": "<string>",
"created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"sources": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"handle": "form",
"label": "<string>",
"url": "<string>",
"source_id": "<string>",
"notes": "<string>",
"created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}
],
"tips": [
{
"id": "<string>",
"person_id": "<string>",
"sender_name": "<string>",
"sender_phone": "<string>",
"message": "<string>",
"created_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
"updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
}
],
"contact_person_first_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_last_name": "<string>",
"contact_person_phone": "<string>",
"contact_person_email": "<string>",
"contact_person_relationship": "<string>"
}
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"errors": {
"first_name": [
"First name is required."
]
}
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Person not found."
}{
"error": "Backend is temporarily unavailable. Try again shortly."
}Authorizations
Send the API key as Authorization: Bearer <api_key>.
Path Parameters
Body
application/json
Updates supplied canonical person fields only. Unknown fields and empty updates are rejected.
Trimmed and normalized person first name.
Minimum string length:
2Trimmed and normalized person last name.
Minimum string length:
2Available options:
cedula, passport, birth_certificate, other Document identifier; blank text is normalized to null.
YYYY-MM-DD; surrounding whitespace is trimmed and blank text is normalized to null.
Required range:
0 <= x <= 120Available options:
female, male, other Minimum string length:
1Minimum string length:
1Available options:
campo_de_golf_caribe, centro_acopio_caraballeda, polideportivo_la_guaira Available options:
present, departed Minimum string length:
2Minimum string length:
1One valid phone number; accepted national or international input is stored as E.164.
Minimum string length:
1Available options:
mother, father, sibling, grandparent, aunt_uncle, cousin, friend, legal_guardian Person status. not_missing forces private visibility and is absent from list/detail reads; an update that makes a record private can return its resulting status once.
Available options:
missing, found, not_missing Controls public visibility of the currently public record; does not make an already private record addressable.
Minimum string length:
1Recorded found timestamp text; this field is not ISO-date validated.
Minimum string length:
1Available options:
la_guaira, distrito_capital, miranda, carabobo, aragua, yaracuy, falcon, lara, cojedes Official city handle belonging to found_state; requires found_state when supplied.
Minimum string length:
1Minimum string length:
2One valid phone number; accepted national or international input is stored as E.164.
Minimum string length:
1Available options:
miguel_perez_carreno, domingo_luciani, ricardo_baquero_gonzalez, universitario_caracas, carlos_bello_cruz_roja, general_oeste_jose_gregorio, cdi_ali_primera, jose_maria_vargas, hospital_de_caracas, hospital_de_clinicas_caracas, policlinica_metropolitana, centro_medico_docente_la_trinidad, centro_medico_de_caracas, clinica_santa_sofia, clinica_sanatrix, urologico_san_roman, clinica_las_ciencias, hospital_central_maracay, vargas_caracas, clinica_el_avila, clinica_alfa, hospital_ciudad_caribia, ana_perez_de_leon_2, ana_perez_de_leon_municipal, centro_acopio_caraballeda, hospital_militar_carlos_arvelo, jm_de_los_rios, victorino_santaella, lidice_jesus_yerena, cdd_las_mercedes, hospital_naval_raul_perdomo_hurtado, materno_infantil_ana_teresa_ponce, san_jose_maiquetia, rafael_medina_jimenez_pariata, hermogenes_rivero_saldivia, general_higuerote, valles_del_tuy_simon_bolivar, guarenas_guatire_eugenio_dbellard, jose_ignacio_baldo_algodonal, periferico_coche, san_juan_de_dios, ortopedico_infantil, cardiologico_infantil_latinoamericano, maternidad_concepcion_palacios, maternidad_santa_ana, hospital_elias_toro, oncologico_padre_machado, ambulatorio_naiguata, centro_oftalmologico_de_vargas, centro_medico_la_guaira, policlinica_la_guaira, centro_medico_pariata, centro_especialidades_medicas_week_end, campo_de_golf_caribe, polideportivo_la_guaira Available options:
admitted, discharged, deceased Response
Updated person; a record made private by this update is still returned once.
Minimized default person response. Child records and public contact fields are protected by default; sensitive access requires a separately approved persons:sensitive:read permission. With that permission, person responses may include the full national ID, precise details, reporter contact fields, finder phone, hospital data, sources, and community-information sender phones.
Show child attributes
Show child attributes