Get contact

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Retrieve the properties and relationships of a contact object.

There are two scenarios where an app can get a contact in another user's contact folder:

• If the app has application permissions, or,
• If the app has the appropriate delegated permissions from one user, and another user has shared a contact folder with that user, or, has given delegated access to that user. See details and an example.

Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Contacts.Read, Contacts.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Contacts.Read, Contacts.ReadWrite
Application	Contacts.Read, Contacts.ReadWrite

HTTP request

A contact in the user's mailbox.

GET /me/contacts/{id}
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contacts/{id}

A contact from a user's top level contactFolder.

GET /me/contactfolders/{Id}/contacts/{id}
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactfolders/{id}/contacts/{id}

A contact contained in a child folder of a contactFolder. The example below shows one level of nesting, but a contact can be located in a child of a child and so on.

GET /me/contactFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/.../contacts/{id}
GET /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactFolders/{id}/childFolders/{id}/contacts/{id}

Optional query parameters

Name	Value	Description
$expand	string	Comma-separated list of relationships to expand and include in the response. See the relationships table of the contact object for supported names.
$select	string	Comma-separated list of properties to include in the response.

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required.

Request body

Do not supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and contact object in the response body.

Example

Request

Here is an example of the request.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/contacts/AAMkAGVmMDEzMTM4LTZmYWUtNDdkNC1hMDZiLTU1OGY5OTZhYmY4OABGAAAAAAAiQ8W967B7TKBjgx9rVEURBwAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAAAAEOAAAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAYbuK-AAA=

C#

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient( authProvider );

var contact = await graphClient.Me.Contacts["{contact-id}"]
	.Request()
	.GetAsync();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let contact = await client.api('/me/contacts/AAMkAGVmMDEzMTM4LTZmYWUtNDdkNC1hMDZiLTU1OGY5OTZhYmY4OABGAAAAAAAiQ8W967B7TKBjgx9rVEURBwAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAAAAEOAAAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAYbuK-AAA=')
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

GraphServiceClient graphClient = GraphServiceClient.builder().authenticationProvider( authProvider ).buildClient();

Contact contact = graphClient.me().contacts("AAMkAGVmMDEzMTM4LTZmYWUtNDdkNC1hMDZiLTU1OGY5OTZhYmY4OABGAAAAAAAiQ8W967B7TKBjgx9rVEURBwAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAAAAEOAAAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAYbuK-AAA=")
	.buildRequest()
	.get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

//THE GO SDK IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClient(requestAdapter)


result, err := graphClient.Me().ContactsById("contact-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.PersonalContacts

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgUserContact -UserId $userId -ContactId $contactId

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php

// THIS SNIPPET IS A PREVIEW FOR THE KIOTA BASED SDK. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($requestAdapter);


$requestResult = $graphServiceClient->me()->contactsById('contact-id')->get();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

Here is an example of the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#users('48d31887-5fad-4d73-a9f5-3c356e68a038')/contacts/$entity",
    "@odata.etag": "W/\"EQAAABYAAAAiIsqMbYjsT5e/T7KzowPTAAAYc8Bf\"",
    "id": "AAMkAGVmMDEzMTM4LTZmYWUtNDdkNC1hMDZiLTU1OGY5OTZhYmY4OABGAAAAAAAiQ8W967B7TKBjgx9rVEURBwAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAAAAEOAAAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAYbuK-AAA=",
    "createdDateTime": "2017-09-04T15:54:01Z",
    "lastModifiedDateTime": "2017-09-04T15:54:02Z",
    "changeKey": "EQAAABYAAAAiIsqMbYjsT5e/T7KzowPTAAAYc8Bf",
    "categories": [],
    "parentFolderId": "AAMkAGVmMDEzMTM4LTZmYWUtNDdkNC1hMDZiLTU1OGY5OTZhYmY4OAAuAAAAAAAiQ8W967B7TKBjgx9rVEURAQAiIsqMbYjsT5e-T7KzowPTAAAAAAEOAAA=",
    "birthday": null,
    "fileAs": "",
    "displayName": "Alex Wilber",
    "givenName": "Alex",
    "initials": null,
    "middleName": null,
    "nickName": null,
    "surname": "Wilber",
    "title": null,
    "yomiGivenName": null,
    "yomiSurname": null,
    "yomiCompanyName": null,
    "generation": null,
    "imAddresses": [],
    "jobTitle": null,
    "companyName": null,
    "department": null,
    "officeLocation": null,
    "profession": null,
    "businessHomePage": null,
    "assistantName": null,
    "manager": null,
    "homePhones": [],
    "mobilePhone": null,
    "businessPhones": [],
    "spouseName": null,
    "personalNotes": "",
    "children": [],
    "emailAddresses": [
        {
            "name": "Alex@FineArtSchool.net",
            "address": "Alex@FineArtSchool.net"
        }
    ],
    "homeAddress": {},
    "businessAddress": {},
    "otherAddress": {}
}