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# GET /api/external/agency/creators — List the creators and personas you manage

> Every creator and AI persona the agency manages, with the account `id` to send as `X-Dropfans-Account` and the permissions the agency holds on each.

- Source: https://www.dropfans.io/developers/reference/list-agency-creators
- Section: API reference
- OpenAPI: https://www.dropfans.io/developers/openapi.json

Every creator and AI persona the agency manages, with the account `id` to send as `X-Dropfans-Account` and the permissions the agency holds on each.

Call it with the agency's own key. Then act for any account by sending the same key plus `X-Dropfans-Account: <id>` to the regular endpoints — see [Agencies: one key for every creator](https://www.dropfans.io/developers/concepts/agencies.md). `active` tells you whether the header works for that account right now.

By default only ACCEPTED relationships come back. `?status=all` adds ended creators and retired personas, e.g. to find a persona to [reactivate](https://www.dropfans.io/developers/reference/reactivate-persona.md).

## Authentication

`Authorization: Bearer dpfn_...` — an API key generated in the dashboard (Vault → API Connect). By default the key acts for the one account it belongs to. Missing or invalid keys return 401 `{"error":"Unauthorized","code":"unauthorized"}`.

Needs a verified agency's own key, sent without `X-Dropfans-Account` — these endpoints act as the agency itself.

## Query parameters

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `status` | `all` |  | Pass `all` to include ended and retired accounts. Omit for active (ACCEPTED) only. |

## Responses

### 200

The agency and its managed accounts.

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `agency` | object | yes | The agency holding the key. |
| `agency.id` | string | yes | The agency’s user id. |
| `agency.username` | string \\| null |  | The agency’s @handle. |
| `agency.name` | string \\| null |  | The agency’s display name. |
| `creators` | AgencyCreator[] | yes | Managed creators and AI personas, oldest relationship first. |

```json
{
  "agency": {
    "id": "cmh1agc0q0001ab7k2p9q4r8s",
    "username": "starlight_agency",
    "name": "Starlight Agency"
  },
  "creators": [
    {
      "id": "cmh4v2q8k0003xy9z7w6v5u4t",
      "managedCreatorId": "cmh4v2q8k0004mc1relation",
      "username": "luna_ai",
      "name": "Luna",
      "image": "https://cdn.dropfans.io/luna_ai/profile.jpg",
      "kind": "ai_persona",
      "status": "ACCEPTED",
      "active": true,
      "kycCoveredByAgency": true,
      "sellerStatus": "VERIFIED_CREATOR",
      "permissions": {
        "canEditProfile": true,
        "canManageDrops": true,
        "canManageVault": true,
        "canViewStats": true,
        "canManageCoPerformers": false
      },
      "profileUrl": "https://www.dropfans.io/u/luna_ai",
      "since": "2026-10-01T09:00:00.000Z"
    },
    {
      "id": "cmh3k9p2a0002cd5e6f7g8h9j",
      "managedCreatorId": "cmh3k9p2a0005mc2relation",
      "username": "valeria",
      "name": "Valeria",
      "image": null,
      "kind": "creator",
      "status": "ACCEPTED",
      "active": true,
      "kycCoveredByAgency": false,
      "sellerStatus": "VERIFIED_CREATOR",
      "permissions": {
        "canEditProfile": false,
        "canManageDrops": true,
        "canManageVault": true,
        "canViewStats": true,
        "canManageCoPerformers": false
      },
      "profileUrl": "https://www.dropfans.io/u/valeria",
      "since": "2026-09-12T14:30:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Errors

| Status | Body | When |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | `{"error":"Agency endpoints act as the agency itself — send them without X-Dropfans-Account.","code":"account_header_not_allowed"}` | The request carried `X-Dropfans-Account`. Agency endpoints always act as the agency. |
| 401 | `{"error":"Unauthorized","code":"unauthorized"}` | Missing or invalid API key. |
| 403 | `{"error":"This endpoint needs a verified agency's own API key.","code":"agency_key_required"}` | The key is not a verified agency’s own key — a creator’s key, or a key an agency minted for one of its creators. |

## Rate limiting

Per-key fixed windows by tier (Personal 60/min · 5,000/day; approved apps 300/min · 50,000/day; Dropfans-operated integrations exempt). Read the live values from X-RateLimit-Tier, X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset and their -Day variants; a 429 carries Retry-After and `{"error":"Rate limit exceeded","code":"rate_limited"}`. See [Rate limits](https://www.dropfans.io/developers/concepts/rate-limits.md).

## Code samples

### curl

```bash
curl "https://www.dropfans.io/api/external/agency/creators" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $DROPFANS_API_KEY"
```

### Node

```javascript
const res = await fetch(`https://www.dropfans.io/api/external/agency/creators`, {
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.DROPFANS_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
console.log(await res.json());
```

### Python

```python
import os
import requests

res = requests.get(
    "https://www.dropfans.io/api/external/agency/creators",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['DROPFANS_API_KEY']}"},
)
print(res.json())
```

## OpenAPI

```json
{
  "method": "GET",
  "path": "/api/external/agency/creators",
  "operationId": "listAgencyCreators",
  "tags": [
    "agency"
  ],
  "summary": "List the creators and personas you manage",
  "description": "Every creator and AI persona the agency manages, with the account `id` to send as `X-Dropfans-Account` and the permissions the agency holds on each.\n\nCall it with the agency's own key. Then act for any account by sending the same key plus `X-Dropfans-Account: <id>` to the regular endpoints — see [Agencies: one key for every creator](https://www.dropfans.io/developers/concepts/agencies.md). `active` tells you whether the header works for that account right now.\n\nBy default only ACCEPTED relationships come back. `?status=all` adds ended creators and retired personas, e.g. to find a persona to [reactivate](https://www.dropfans.io/developers/reference/reactivate-persona.md).",
  "parameters": [
    {
      "name": "status",
      "in": "query",
      "required": false,
      "description": "Pass `all` to include ended and retired accounts. Omit for active (ACCEPTED) only.",
      "schema": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "all"
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "responses": {
    "200": {
      "description": "The agency and its managed accounts.",
      "headers": {
        "X-RateLimit-Tier": {
          "description": "Rate-limit tier of the key: personal, app or first_party (first_party is unlimited).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "personal",
              "app",
              "first_party"
            ]
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Limit": {
          "description": "Requests allowed per minute for this key (absent on first_party).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Remaining": {
          "description": "Requests left in the current minute window.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Reset": {
          "description": "Epoch seconds when the minute window resets.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Limit-Day": {
          "description": "Requests allowed per UTC day for this key (absent on first_party).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Remaining-Day": {
          "description": "Requests left in the current UTC day window.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Reset-Day": {
          "description": "Epoch seconds when the day window resets.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-Dropfans-Account": {
          "description": "The id of the account this request acted on — the key’s own account, or the managed account named in the X-Dropfans-Account request header. Assert it when acting for several accounts.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      },
      "content": {
        "application/json": {
          "schema": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "agency": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                  "id": {
                    "type": "string",
                    "description": "The agency’s user id."
                  },
                  "username": {
                    "type": [
                      "string",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "The agency’s @handle."
                  },
                  "name": {
                    "type": [
                      "string",
                      "null"
                    ],
                    "description": "The agency’s display name."
                  }
                },
                "required": [
                  "id"
                ],
                "description": "The agency holding the key."
              },
              "creators": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "properties": {
                    "id": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "The account’s user id — the value for `X-Dropfans-Account`.",
                      "example": "cmh4v2q8k0003xy9z7w6v5u4t"
                    },
                    "managedCreatorId": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "Id of the management relationship (not an account id — never send it as `X-Dropfans-Account`)."
                    },
                    "username": {
                      "type": [
                        "string",
                        "null"
                      ],
                      "description": "Public @handle, without the @.",
                      "example": "luna_ai"
                    },
                    "name": {
                      "type": [
                        "string",
                        "null"
                      ],
                      "description": "Display name.",
                      "example": "Luna"
                    },
                    "image": {
                      "type": [
                        "string",
                        "null"
                      ],
                      "description": "Profile image URL.",
                      "format": "uri"
                    },
                    "kind": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "`ai_persona` = an AI persona the agency runs; `creator` = a real creator who accepted the agency.",
                      "enum": [
                        "creator",
                        "ai_persona"
                      ]
                    },
                    "status": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "Relationship status. Only ACCEPTED accounts are returned unless you pass `?status=all`; a retired persona is DEPARTED, an ended creator REVOKED or DEPARTED.",
                      "enum": [
                        "INVITE_SENT",
                        "INVITE_EXPIRED",
                        "ACCEPTED",
                        "REVOKED",
                        "DEPARTED"
                      ]
                    },
                    "active": {
                      "type": "boolean",
                      "description": "True when `X-Dropfans-Account` works for this account right now: ACCEPTED, and the account is not suspended, banned or deleted."
                    },
                    "kycCoveredByAgency": {
                      "type": "boolean",
                      "description": "True when the account’s ID check rides on the agency’s (AI personas)."
                    },
                    "sellerStatus": {
                      "type": "string",
                      "description": "Internal seller state, for support.",
                      "example": "VERIFIED_CREATOR"
                    },
                    "permissions": {
                      "type": "object",
                      "properties": {
                        "canEditProfile": {
                          "type": "boolean",
                          "description": "Profile, timezone, subscription tier and Telegram notification settings."
                        },
                        "canManageDrops": {
                          "type": "boolean",
                          "description": "Drops, orders and posts."
                        },
                        "canManageVault": {
                          "type": "boolean",
                          "description": "Vault media, folders, tags and video uploads."
                        },
                        "canViewStats": {
                          "type": "boolean",
                          "description": "Earnings, tips, balance and subscription reads."
                        },
                        "canManageCoPerformers": {
                          "type": "boolean",
                          "description": "Co-performer management (dashboard only — no API endpoint uses it yet)."
                        }
                      },
                      "required": [
                        "canEditProfile",
                        "canManageDrops",
                        "canManageVault",
                        "canViewStats",
                        "canManageCoPerformers"
                      ]
                    },
                    "profileUrl": {
                      "type": [
                        "string",
                        "null"
                      ],
                      "description": "Public profile URL. Null until the account has a username.",
                      "format": "uri"
                    },
                    "since": {
                      "type": [
                        "string",
                        "null"
                      ],
                      "description": "When the relationship was accepted.",
                      "format": "date-time"
                    }
                  },
                  "required": [
                    "id",
                    "managedCreatorId",
                    "kind",
                    "status",
                    "active",
                    "kycCoveredByAgency",
                    "sellerStatus",
                    "permissions"
                  ]
                },
                "description": "Managed creators and AI personas, oldest relationship first."
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "agency",
              "creators"
            ]
          },
          "example": {
            "agency": {
              "id": "cmh1agc0q0001ab7k2p9q4r8s",
              "username": "starlight_agency",
              "name": "Starlight Agency"
            },
            "creators": [
              {
                "id": "cmh4v2q8k0003xy9z7w6v5u4t",
                "managedCreatorId": "cmh4v2q8k0004mc1relation",
                "username": "luna_ai",
                "name": "Luna",
                "image": "https://cdn.dropfans.io/luna_ai/profile.jpg",
                "kind": "ai_persona",
                "status": "ACCEPTED",
                "active": true,
                "kycCoveredByAgency": true,
                "sellerStatus": "VERIFIED_CREATOR",
                "permissions": {
                  "canEditProfile": true,
                  "canManageDrops": true,
                  "canManageVault": true,
                  "canViewStats": true,
                  "canManageCoPerformers": false
                },
                "profileUrl": "https://www.dropfans.io/u/luna_ai",
                "since": "2026-10-01T09:00:00.000Z"
              },
              {
                "id": "cmh3k9p2a0002cd5e6f7g8h9j",
                "managedCreatorId": "cmh3k9p2a0005mc2relation",
                "username": "valeria",
                "name": "Valeria",
                "image": null,
                "kind": "creator",
                "status": "ACCEPTED",
                "active": true,
                "kycCoveredByAgency": false,
                "sellerStatus": "VERIFIED_CREATOR",
                "permissions": {
                  "canEditProfile": false,
                  "canManageDrops": true,
                  "canManageVault": true,
                  "canViewStats": true,
                  "canManageCoPerformers": false
                },
                "profileUrl": "https://www.dropfans.io/u/valeria",
                "since": "2026-09-12T14:30:00.000Z"
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "400": {
      "description": "The request carried `X-Dropfans-Account`. Agency endpoints always act as the agency.",
      "headers": {
        "X-RateLimit-Tier": {
          "description": "Rate-limit tier of the key: personal, app or first_party (first_party is unlimited).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "personal",
              "app",
              "first_party"
            ]
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Limit": {
          "description": "Requests allowed per minute for this key (absent on first_party).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Remaining": {
          "description": "Requests left in the current minute window.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Reset": {
          "description": "Epoch seconds when the minute window resets.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Limit-Day": {
          "description": "Requests allowed per UTC day for this key (absent on first_party).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Remaining-Day": {
          "description": "Requests left in the current UTC day window.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Reset-Day": {
          "description": "Epoch seconds when the day window resets.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        }
      },
      "content": {
        "application/json": {
          "schema": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "error": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Human-readable message.",
                "example": "Rate limit exceeded"
              },
              "code": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Machine-readable code: unauthorized, app_suspended, first_party_only, rate_limited, username_required, invalid_account_header, account_not_managed, permission_denied, account_header_not_allowed, agency_key_required — plus endpoint-specific codes listed on each reference page.",
                "example": "rate_limited"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "error",
              "code"
            ]
          },
          "example": {
            "error": "Agency endpoints act as the agency itself — send them without X-Dropfans-Account.",
            "code": "account_header_not_allowed"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "401": {
      "description": "Missing or invalid API key.",
      "headers": {
        "X-RateLimit-Tier": {
          "description": "Rate-limit tier of the key: personal, app or first_party (first_party is unlimited).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "personal",
              "app",
              "first_party"
            ]
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Limit": {
          "description": "Requests allowed per minute for this key (absent on first_party).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Remaining": {
          "description": "Requests left in the current minute window.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Reset": {
          "description": "Epoch seconds when the minute window resets.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Limit-Day": {
          "description": "Requests allowed per UTC day for this key (absent on first_party).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Remaining-Day": {
          "description": "Requests left in the current UTC day window.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Reset-Day": {
          "description": "Epoch seconds when the day window resets.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        }
      },
      "content": {
        "application/json": {
          "schema": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "error": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Human-readable message.",
                "example": "Rate limit exceeded"
              },
              "code": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Machine-readable code: unauthorized, app_suspended, first_party_only, rate_limited, username_required, invalid_account_header, account_not_managed, permission_denied, account_header_not_allowed, agency_key_required — plus endpoint-specific codes listed on each reference page.",
                "example": "rate_limited"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "error",
              "code"
            ]
          },
          "example": {
            "error": "Unauthorized",
            "code": "unauthorized"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "403": {
      "description": "The key is not a verified agency’s own key — a creator’s key, or a key an agency minted for one of its creators.",
      "headers": {
        "X-RateLimit-Tier": {
          "description": "Rate-limit tier of the key: personal, app or first_party (first_party is unlimited).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "personal",
              "app",
              "first_party"
            ]
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Limit": {
          "description": "Requests allowed per minute for this key (absent on first_party).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Remaining": {
          "description": "Requests left in the current minute window.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Reset": {
          "description": "Epoch seconds when the minute window resets.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Limit-Day": {
          "description": "Requests allowed per UTC day for this key (absent on first_party).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Remaining-Day": {
          "description": "Requests left in the current UTC day window.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Reset-Day": {
          "description": "Epoch seconds when the day window resets.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        }
      },
      "content": {
        "application/json": {
          "schema": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "error": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Human-readable message.",
                "example": "Rate limit exceeded"
              },
              "code": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Machine-readable code: unauthorized, app_suspended, first_party_only, rate_limited, username_required, invalid_account_header, account_not_managed, permission_denied, account_header_not_allowed, agency_key_required — plus endpoint-specific codes listed on each reference page.",
                "example": "rate_limited"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "error",
              "code"
            ]
          },
          "example": {
            "error": "This endpoint needs a verified agency's own API key.",
            "code": "agency_key_required"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "429": {
      "description": "Rate limit exceeded for the current minute or day window. Wait Retry-After seconds and retry.",
      "headers": {
        "X-RateLimit-Tier": {
          "description": "Rate-limit tier of the key: personal, app or first_party (first_party is unlimited).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "string",
            "enum": [
              "personal",
              "app",
              "first_party"
            ]
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Limit": {
          "description": "Requests allowed per minute for this key (absent on first_party).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Remaining": {
          "description": "Requests left in the current minute window.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Reset": {
          "description": "Epoch seconds when the minute window resets.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Limit-Day": {
          "description": "Requests allowed per UTC day for this key (absent on first_party).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Remaining-Day": {
          "description": "Requests left in the current UTC day window.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "X-RateLimit-Reset-Day": {
          "description": "Epoch seconds when the day window resets.",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        },
        "Retry-After": {
          "description": "Seconds to wait before retrying (sent with 429s).",
          "schema": {
            "type": "integer"
          }
        }
      },
      "content": {
        "application/json": {
          "schema": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "error": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Human-readable message.",
                "example": "Rate limit exceeded"
              },
              "code": {
                "type": "string",
                "description": "Machine-readable code: unauthorized, app_suspended, first_party_only, rate_limited, username_required, invalid_account_header, account_not_managed, permission_denied, account_header_not_allowed, agency_key_required — plus endpoint-specific codes listed on each reference page.",
                "example": "rate_limited"
              }
            },
            "required": [
              "error",
              "code"
            ]
          },
          "example": {
            "error": "Rate limit exceeded",
            "code": "rate_limited"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "x-codeSamples": [
    {
      "lang": "cURL",
      "label": "curl",
      "source": "curl \"https://www.dropfans.io/api/external/agency/creators\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $DROPFANS_API_KEY\""
    },
    {
      "lang": "JavaScript",
      "label": "Node",
      "source": "const res = await fetch(`https://www.dropfans.io/api/external/agency/creators`, {\n  headers: {\n    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.DROPFANS_API_KEY}`,\n  },\n});\nconsole.log(await res.json());"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Python",
      "source": "import os\nimport requests\n\nres = requests.get(\n    \"https://www.dropfans.io/api/external/agency/creators\",\n    headers={\"Authorization\": f\"Bearer {os.environ['DROPFANS_API_KEY']}\"},\n)\nprint(res.json())"
    }
  ],
  "x-dropfans-docs": "https://www.dropfans.io/developers/reference/list-agency-creators"
}
```

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