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.

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.

HTTP

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

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Me.ContactFolders["{contactFolder-id}"].Contacts.GetAsync();

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

CLI

// THE CLI IS IN PREVIEW. NON-PRODUCTION USE ONLY
mgc users contact-folders contacts list --user-id {user-id} --contact-folder-id {contactFolder-id}

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

Go

import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  //other-imports
)

graphClient := msgraphsdk.NewGraphServiceClientWithCredentials(cred, scopes)



contacts, err := graphClient.Me().ContactFolders().ByContactFolderId("contactFolder-id").Contacts().Get(context.Background(), nil)

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

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

ContactCollectionResponse result = graphClient.me().contactFolders().byContactFolderId("{contactFolder-id}").contacts().get();

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 contacts = await client.api('/me/contactFolders/{id}/contacts')
	.get();

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

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->contactFolders()->byContactFolderId('contactFolder-id')->contacts()->get()->wait();

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-MgUserContactFolderContact -UserId $userId -ContactFolderId $contactFolderId

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

Python

from msgraph import GraphServiceClient

graph_client = GraphServiceClient(credentials, scopes)


result = await graph_client.me.contact_folders.by_contact_folder_id('contactFolder-id').contacts.get()

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

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"
    }
  ]
}