Get the Specified Contact | Knowledge Base

Overview

This request retrieves the properties of a specified contact. You can use unique or system-generated contact IDs to specify the contact.

The Method

Type	Request	Method
REST	GET	https://[Your URL]/api/2.0/contacts/:id
XML-RPC	Call	contacts.GetContact

Your URL is the address of your install.

Your method must be structured as follows:

GetContact(integer $id) : object

Parameters

Required Parameters

The following parameter is required for this request to work:

Property	Type	Description	Required
$id	integer	The ID of the contact to retrieve. Can be contact unique ID or contact ID.	yes

Responses

Type	Description
object	The contact object.

Code Samples

PHP (using REST API)

$url = '(Your URL)/api/2.0/contacts/:contact_id';
$method = 'GET';
$cSession = curl_init();
$headers = array();
$auth = base64_encode($username . ':' . $apikey);
$headers[] = 'Authorization: Basic ' . $auth;
curl_setopt($cSession, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($cSession, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($cSession, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);
curl_setopt($cSession, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, strtoupper($method));
curl_setopt($cSession, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$result = curl_exec($cSession);
curl_close($cSession);