# Looking up people via custom field **URL:** \ **Category:** API Q&A\ **Created:** [February 6, 2026, 5:37pm UTC](https://integration.keap.com/t/looking-up-people-via-custom-field/93930 "2026-02-06T17:37:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Pav](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/integration.keap.com/pav/32/124_2.png) [@Pav](https://integration.keap.com/u/Pav)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 5:59pm UTC](https://integration.keap.com/t/looking-up-people-via-custom-field/93930/2 "2026-02-07T17:59:08Z")
@RedBeardBrian - I have mentioned to Keap several times about this issue, but they have a poor excuse in not wanting to implement a solution. There stance is that it is a performance issue. So for nearly 20 years it was okay to do it via the XML-RPC without a restriction put into place. Oddly you can manually create a Saved Search to search on a particular Custom Field and run it via REST. Saved Searches are worse for performance because you can create complex queries. What is even more funny, there will be endpoints to add / edit the custom fields for the various areas, but without the querying capabilities. I have posted workaround solutions in this thread below. > [@Search Company or Contact Custom Fields](https://integration.keap.com/t/search-company-or-contact-custom-fields/93858): > > Is there a way to search a Company or Contact custom fields for certain values and just return the Companies or Contacts that match the search criteria? This would be similar to using the “Cusom Fields” tab in the Companes/Contact search feature on the web site. I’m pretty sure I can do it with XMLRPC queries but I’m trying not to implement any more features using that technology. wink If more people complain about this issue then hopefully Keap will do something about it. --- _[View the full topic](https://integration.keap.com/t/looking-up-people-via-custom-field/93930)._