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.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

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.

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

Request headers

Request body

Don't 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

The following example shows a request.

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

// 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.Contacts["{contact-id}"].GetAsync();

mgc users contacts get --user-id {user-id} --contact-id {contact-id}

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

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


// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
contacts, err := graphClient.Me().Contacts().ByContactId("contact-id").Get(context.Background(), nil)

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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

Contact result = graphClient.me().contacts().byContactId("{contact-id}").get();

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

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

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->contacts()->byContactId('contact-id')->get()->wait();

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.PersonalContacts

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

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python

result = await graph_client.me.contacts.by_contact_id('contact-id').get()

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

{
    "@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": {}
}