List contacts

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get a contact collection from the default Contacts folder of the signed-in user (.../me/contacts), or from the specified contact folder.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service US Government L4 US Government L5 (DOD) China operated by 21Vianet

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type Least privileged permissions Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account) Contacts.Read Contacts.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account) Contacts.Read Contacts.ReadWrite
Application Contacts.Read Contacts.ReadWrite

HTTP request

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

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

Optional query parameters

This method supports the OData Query Parameters to help customize the response.

Request headers

Name Type Description
Authorization string Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.

Request body

Don't supply a request body for this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns a 200 OK response code and collection of Contact objects in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/contactFolders/{id}/contacts
Response

The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

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

{
  "value": [
    {
      "parentFolderId": "parentFolderId-value",
      "birthday": "datetime-value",
      "fileAs": "fileAs-value",
      "displayName": "displayName-value",
      "givenName": "givenName-value",
      "initials": "initials-value"
    }
  ]
}