List contacts

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Get a contact collection from the default contacts folder of the signed-in user.

There are two scenarios where an app can get contacts 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

To get all the contacts in a user's default Contacts folder:

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

To get contacts in a specific folder in the user's mailbox:

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

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

Optional query parameters

You can use the $filter query parameter to filter contacts based on their email addresses:

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/contacts?$filter=emailAddresses/any(a:a/address eq '[email protected]')

You can use $filter, any, and the eq operator on only the address sub-property of instances in an emailAddresses collection. That is, you can't filter on the name or any other sub-property of an instance of emailAddresses, nor can you apply any other operator or function with filter, such as ne, le, and startswith().

For general information on the $filter query parameter, see OData 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 a collection of contact objects in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/contacts

// 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.GetAsync();

mgc users contacts list --user-id {user-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().Get(context.Background(), nil)

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

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

ContactCollectionResponse result = graphClient.me().contacts().get();

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

let contacts = await client.api('/me/contacts')
	.get();

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;


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


$result = $graphServiceClient->me()->contacts()->get()->wait();

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.PersonalContacts

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

# 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.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

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