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AMS statuses

Adverse media search request statuses

  1. You submit a search. The request is created and queued. INITIALISED

  2. The background scan starts β€” web sources are fetched and analysed. INITIALISED β†’ PENDING

  3. PENDING β†’

    • COMPLETED β€” the scan finished successfully. Results are available in the results field. Final status.

    • FAILED β€” the scan could not be completed due to an error. The request is not billable. Final status.

Most common status transitions

Happy path

INITIALISED β†’ PENDING β†’ COMPLETED

Unhappy path

INITIALISED β†’ PENDING β†’ FAILED

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A FAILED request is not billed. You may submit the same search again β€” a new request will be created and processed.

Results

Once a request reaches COMPLETED, the results field is populated with an array of AmsWebSearchResult objects. Each result represents a single web article found during the scan and includes:

Field
Description

title

Title of the web page

snippet

Web search snippet

link

URL of the article

adversityScore

Overall adversity score, 0–100. Higher = more adverse content found

personSimilarity

Similarity between the search subject and the person in the article, 0–100

role

Role of the subject in the article β€” e.g. perpetrator, victim, other

roleDetails

Further detail on the role or alleged involvement

summary

One-sentence summary of the article

extractedCountry

ISO country code extracted from the article, if detected

extractedState

State or region extracted from the article, if detected

locationMismatch

true if the article's detected location does not match the supplied country

paywall

true if the article is behind a paywall and could not be fully analysed

exactFullNameMatch

true if the article contains an exact match of the full name

dob

Date of birth extracted from the article, if detected

ageInArticle

Age of the person extracted from the article, if detected

articlePublishDate

Publication date of the article, if detected

lookup

Keywords found in the article and their occurrence counts

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