# Cognism API Docs Documentation

> Documentation for Cognism API Docs

## Guides: Cognism API docs
- [Introduction](https://docs.cognism.com/docs/getting-started.md): Welcome to the Cognism developer hub — what the Cognism API and MCP server do, who they are for, how to get access, and where to go next.
- [Authentication](https://docs.cognism.com/docs/authentication.md): Generate OAuth 2.0 client credentials, request an access token, and authenticate Cognism API calls.
- [Pagination](https://docs.cognism.com/docs/pagination.md): Page through search results with cursor pagination (default) or offset pagination, and choose the right mode for your use case.
- [Endpoints](https://docs.cognism.com/docs/endpoints.md): Every Cognism API operation, what it returns, and what it costs in rate-limit, search-token and credit terms.
- [Credits and Search tokens](https://docs.cognism.com/docs/credits-and-search-tokens.md): How the Cognism API meters usage — search tokens for records returned, credits for contact details revealed — and how to read your balance from response headers.
- [Rate Limits](https://docs.cognism.com/docs/rate-limits.md): How Cognism API rate limits work, how to read the RateLimit-* headers, and how to handle 429 responses gracefully.
- [Errors](https://docs.cognism.com/docs/errors.md): HTTP status codes and error codes returned by the Cognism API, what each one means, and which ones are safe to retry.
- [Cognism MCP server](https://docs.cognism.com/docs/mcp-server.md): Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP-compatible AI assistants to Cognism data and search, count and reveal in plain language.

## API Reference: connect-api
- [Get access token](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getaccesstoken.md): Generate access_token
- [Count companies](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/countcompanies.md)
- [Search companies](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/searchcompanies.md)
- [Get account-selected intent topics](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getintenttopics.md)
- [Get technologies](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/gettechnologies.md)
- [Get regions](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getregions.md)
- [Get countries](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getcountries.md)
- [Get departments](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getdepartments.md)
- [Get seniorities](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getseniorities.md)
- [Get intent topic catalogue](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getintenttopicscatalogue.md): Returns Bombora intent topics, refreshed from Bombora. Filter by name, or fetch a single topic with the id param.
- [Get industries](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getindustries.md)
- [Get industry codes](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getindustrycodes.md)
- [Count persons](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/countpersons.md)
- [Search persons](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/searchpersons.md)
- [Get compliance settings](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getcompliancesettings.md)
- [Get personalization settings](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getpersonalizationsettings.md)
- [Get billing settings](https://docs.cognism.com/reference/getbillingsettings.md)