Retrieving Contacts

Contacts can be retrieved both via contactId, as well as email.

Note that email is not a primary identifier, and it's possible that multiple contacts have the same email - so querying on email returns a list. ID will always return one entry (if the contact exists).

Single (Query by ID)

GET https://driftapi.com/contacts/{contactId}

Multiple (Query by Email)

GET https://driftapi.com/contacts

Accepted Query Parameters:

• email filters out contacts where the email does not match
• limit sets a max for the number of contacts returned

ex: GET https://driftapi.com/[email protected]

response-success:

Headers: Link: "<link>; rel='next'"
{
    "data": {
        "id": 1234567890,
        "createdAt": 1617825403810,
        "attributes": {
            "original_ip": "45.42.45.124,52.89.138.153",
            "_END_USER_VERSION": 87,
            "_end_user_version": 87,
            "recent_entrance_page_url": "http://www.yoursite.com",
            "recent_entrance_page_title": "Your Website",
            "_calculated_version": 87,
            "ip": "45.42.45.124,52.89.138.153",
            "externalId": "a12-1234",
            "tags": [],
            "original_entrance_page_url": "http://www.yoursite.com",
            "original_entrance_page_title": "Your Website",
            "socialProfiles": {},
            "last_active": 1617826661680,
            "first_name": "Bruce Wayne",
            "email": "[email protected]",
            "events": {},
            "start_date": 1617825403810
        }
    }
}

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Retrieving contacts by external id (your identifier)

If you identified a contact with a custom identifier, use the following syntax to retrieve a contact by that ID, replacing USER-143 with your ID value. You can also provide multiple id query params if you want to retrieve multiple contacts at once in a single request.

https://driftapi.com/contacts?idType=external&id=USER-143