List contacts

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Important

APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported. To determine whether an API is available in v1.0, use the Version selector.

Get contacts in the user's mailbox.

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.

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

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/beta/me/contacts?$filter=emailAddresses/any(a:a/address eq 'garth@contoso.com')

Note that you can use $filter, any, and the eq operator on only the address sub-property of instances in an emailAddresses collection. That is, you cannot 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

Header	Value
Authorization	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 a collection of contact objects in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example gets the displayName and emailAddresses properties of the signed-in user's contacts.

HTTP

GET https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/contacts?$select=displayName,emailAddresses

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.Contacts.GetAsync((requestConfiguration) =>
{
	requestConfiguration.QueryParameters.Select = new string []{ "displayName","emailAddresses" };
});

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

CLI

mgc-beta users contacts list --user-id {user-id} --select "displayName,emailAddresses"

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v0.*

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

requestParameters := &graphusers.ItemContactsRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters{
	Select: [] string {"displayName","emailAddresses"},
}
configuration := &graphusers.ItemContactsRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration{
	QueryParameters: requestParameters,
}

// 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(), configuration)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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().contacts().get(requestConfiguration -> {
	requestConfiguration.queryParameters.select = new String []{"displayName", "emailAddresses"};
});

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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/contacts')
	.version('beta')
	.select('displayName,emailAddresses')
	.get();

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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\Beta\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Beta\Generated\Users\Item\Contacts\ContactsRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration;


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

$requestConfiguration = new ContactsRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration();
$queryParameters = ContactsRequestBuilderGetRequestConfiguration::createQueryParameters();
$queryParameters->select = ["displayName","emailAddresses"];
$requestConfiguration->queryParameters = $queryParameters;


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

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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.Beta.PersonalContacts

# A UPN can also be used as -UserId.
Get-MgBetaUserContact -UserId $userId -Property "displayName,emailAddresses" 

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph_beta import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph_beta.generated.users.item.contacts.contacts_request_builder import ContactsRequestBuilder
from kiota_abstractions.base_request_configuration import RequestConfiguration
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
query_params = ContactsRequestBuilder.ContactsRequestBuilderGetQueryParameters(
		select = ["displayName","emailAddresses"],
)

request_configuration = RequestConfiguration(
query_parameters = query_params,
)

result = await graph_client.me.contacts.get(request_configuration = request_configuration)

Important

Microsoft Graph SDKs use the v1.0 version of the API by default, and do not support all the types, properties, and APIs available in the beta version. For details about accessing the beta API with the SDK, see Use the Microsoft Graph SDKs with the beta API.

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

{
    "@odata.context":"https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#users('c3e1fcd2-db78-42a8-aec5-1f2cd59abb5c')/contacts(displayName,emailAddresses)",
    "value":[
        {
            "@odata.etag":"W/\"EQAAABYAAACv7At+UNVFRLhGciJGF6v5AAAve7f6\"",
            "id":"AAMkADh6v5AAAvgTCFAAA=",
            "displayName":"Elvis Blank",
            "emailAddresses":[
                {
                    "type":"personal",
                    "name":"Elvis Blank",
                    "address":"elvisb@contoso.com"
                },
                {
                    "type":"other",
                    "otherLabel":"Volunteer work",
                    "name":"Elvis Blank",
                    "address":"elvisb@contoso.com"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@odata.etag":"W/\"EQAAABYAAACv7At+UNVFRLhGciJGF6v5AAAve7fn\"",
            "id":"AAMkADh6v5AAAvgTCEAAA=",
            "displayName":"Pavel Bansky",
            "emailAddresses":[
                {
                    "type":"personal",
                    "name":"Pavel Bansky",
                    "address":"pavelb@contoso.com"
                },
                {
                    "type":"other",
                    "otherLabel":"Volunteer work",
                    "name":"Pavel Bansky",
                    "address":"pavelb@contoso.com"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}