# Contact routes: create, get, list

URL: /code/api/contact/records · Id: `page:code/api/contact/records`

> The Contact Verbs create, get, list as api.sb routes, with inputs, result, refusals and an example.

Reference for [Contact](/business/nouns/contact), one group of [Contact routes](/code/api/contact).

### Contact.create
Creates a Contact. [Verb page](/business/nouns/contact/create?interface=api).

```text
POST /{namespace}/contacts
```

Body, as JSON: the inputs. Emits `Contact.created`.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `email` | `email` | No | The primary email address. |
| `phone` | `string` | No | The primary phone number. |
| `name` | `string` | No | The name the Contact goes by. |
| `organization` | [Organization](/business/nouns/organization) | No | A Contact works for one Organization, as this Startup knows it. |
| `person` | [Person](/business/nouns/person) | No | Each Contact is one Startup’s view of a Person shared across every Startup that knows them. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `contact` | [Contact](/business/nouns/contact) | Yes | The Contact. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl -X POST https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email":"dana@leaseline.app"}'
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "contact": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts/contact_7lQA1UrSGj",
    "$type": "Contact",
    "email": "dana@leaseline.app",
    "phone": "Example phone"
  },
  "action": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG",
    "operation": "Contact.create",
    "status": "done"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/actions/act_br07HsG8MG"
  }
}
```

### Contact.get
Returns one Contact by id. [Verb page](/business/nouns/contact/get?interface=api).

```text
GET /{namespace}/contacts/{id}
```

Path: `id`. Query: the other inputs. Reads only: it emits no Event.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `id` | `string` | Yes | The id of the Contact. |
| `at` | `string` | No | A time or Version name: the record as it stood then. Unset: as it stands now. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `contact` | [Contact](/business/nouns/contact) | Yes | The Contact. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts/contact_WsrosCQi6J \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "$type": "Contact",
  "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts/contact_WsrosCQi6J",
  "contact": {
    "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts/contact_WsrosCQi6J",
    "$type": "Contact",
    "email": "marcus@riversideproperty.com",
    "phone": "Example phone"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts/contact_WsrosCQi6J",
    "up": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts"
  },
  "actions": {
    "enrich": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts/contact_WsrosCQi6J/enrich",
    "enroll": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts/contact_WsrosCQi6J/enroll",
    "merge": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts/contact_WsrosCQi6J/merge"
  }
}
```

### Contact.list
Returns Contacts, newest first, one page at a time. [Verb page](/business/nouns/contact/list?interface=api).

```text
GET /{namespace}/contacts
```

Query: the inputs. Reads only: it emits no Event.

**Inputs**

| Input | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `limit` | `integer` | No | At most this many records, up to 100. The default is 20. |
| `after` | `string` | No | The cursor from the previous page. |
| `where` | `string` | No | A filter over the properties, such as `paidAt = null and total.amount > 500`. |
| `sort` | `string` | No | Properties to sort by, comma-separated; a leading minus sorts descending. |
| `total` | `boolean` | No | True adds the match count as `meta.total`, exact up to 10,000 matches and estimated above. |
| `facets` | `string` | No | Properties to count by value, comma-separated, returned as `meta.facets`. |
| `fields` | `string` | No | Properties to return on each record, comma-separated; `$id` and `$type` always return. |
| `include` | `string` | No | Related records to embed in place of their URLs, comma-separated. |
| `depth` | `integer` | No | How many levels of related records to embed. The default is 1. |
| `q` | `string` | No | Words to match across the text properties, ranked by relevance. |
| `match` | `string` | No | Ranks the search by `words`, or `meaning`; words is the default. |

**Returns**

| Output | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `contacts` | list of [Contact](/business/nouns/contact) | Yes | One page of Contacts. |

**Refuses when**

| Check | Error | Fix | Then call |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The key is valid, but its scopes do not allow this operation. | [`forbidden`](/code/api/errors/forbidden) | Use a key whose scopes cover the operation, or ask an owner of the namespace to grant them. | None. |

**Example**

```bash
curl "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts?limit=20" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $STARTUP_BUILDER_API_KEY"
```

```json
{
  "api": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app",
  "$type": "Contact",
  "contacts": [
    {
      "$id": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts/contact_WsrosCQi6J",
      "$type": "Contact",
      "email": "marcus@riversideproperty.com",
      "phone": "Example phone"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "limit": 20,
    "after": "contact_WsrosCQi6J"
  },
  "links": {
    "self": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts?limit=20",
    "next": "https://api.sb/leaseline.app/contacts?after=contact_WsrosCQi6J"
  }
}
```