Search contacts

Finds contacts by name, phone number or email (partial match), and filters by tag, opt-in status or creation time. Returns one page, newest first, with a cursor for the next page. Use get_contact for one contact.

GET /v1/contacts

#What it does

• Only reads data. It changes nothing and sends nothing.

#Request

Query parameters

#Lists, filters and sorting

• Items per page: limit from 1 to 100, default 20 (MCP: default 20, maximum 50).
• Next page: send next_cursor of the answer as cursor. The cursor only works with the same filters. See Pagination.
• Filters: query, tag, optin_whatsapp, created_after, created_before.
• Sorting: newest first (created_at descending, then id descending); no other order.

#Examples

curl "https://api.smartchat.marketing/v1/contacts?query=mia&limit=2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SMARTCHAT_API_KEY"

import os
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.smartchat.marketing/v1/contacts",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["SMARTCHAT_API_KEY"]},
    params={
        "query": "mia",
        "limit": "2",
    },
)
response.raise_for_status()
print(response.json())

const response = await fetch("https://api.smartchat.marketing/v1/contacts?query=mia&limit=2", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.SMARTCHAT_API_KEY}`,
  },
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(await response.text());
console.log(await response.json());

Response (200):

{
  "object": "list",
  "data": [
    {
      "object": "contact",
      "id": "con_0f8c1a2e4b7d4c3e9a5b6d7e8f901234",
      "name": "Mia Muster",
      "phone": "+4915112345678",
      "email": "mia@example.com",
      "language": "en",
      "status": "unconfirmed",
      "optin_whatsapp": "none",
      "optin_whatsapp_at": null,
      "purpose": "marketing",
      "source": "api",
      "tags": [
        "regular customer"
      ],
      "tag_details": [
        {
          "name": "regular customer",
          "origin": "manual",
          "added_at": "2026-10-25T09:41:07Z"
        }
      ],
      "created_at": "2026-10-25T09:41:07Z"
    }
  ],
  "has_more": false,
  "next_cursor": null,
  "url": "/v1/contacts"
}

#Response

Status 200. Every response has the headers Request-Id, SmartChat-Version and X-RateLimit-*.

#Errors

All errors use one format.