Retrieve a contact - Brightalk Developer Documentation

cURL

curl --request GET 'https://api.brightalk.ai/contacts/con_demo_001' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $BRIGHTALK_API_KEY" \
  --header "Brightalk-Version: 2026-07-16"

const response = await fetch("https://api.brightalk.ai/contacts/con_demo_001", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BRIGHTALK_API_KEY}`,
    "Brightalk-Version": "2026-07-16",
  },
});
console.log(response.status, await response.json());

import os
import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.brightalk.ai/contacts/con_demo_001",
    headers={
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['BRIGHTALK_API_KEY']}",
    "Brightalk-Version": "2026-07-16",
    },
)
print(response.status_code, response.json())

{
  "id": "con_demo_001",
  "external_id": "customer-8421",
  "source": "public_api",
  "name": "Example Customer",
  "phone_number": "+12025550123",
  "email": "customer@example.com",
  "company": "Example Co.",
  "role": "Operations Manager",
  "city": "Taipei",
  "country": "TW",
  "created_at": "2026-07-20T01:00:00Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-07-20T01:00:00Z"
}

GET

/

contacts

/

{contact_id}

cURL

curl --request GET 'https://api.brightalk.ai/contacts/con_demo_001' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $BRIGHTALK_API_KEY" \
  --header "Brightalk-Version: 2026-07-16"

const response = await fetch("https://api.brightalk.ai/contacts/con_demo_001", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BRIGHTALK_API_KEY}`,
    "Brightalk-Version": "2026-07-16",
  },
});
console.log(response.status, await response.json());

import os
import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "https://api.brightalk.ai/contacts/con_demo_001",
    headers={
    "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['BRIGHTALK_API_KEY']}",
    "Brightalk-Version": "2026-07-16",
    },
)
print(response.status_code, response.json())

{
  "id": "con_demo_001",
  "external_id": "customer-8421",
  "source": "public_api",
  "name": "Example Customer",
  "phone_number": "+12025550123",
  "email": "customer@example.com",
  "company": "Example Co.",
  "role": "Operations Manager",
  "city": "Taipei",
  "country": "TW",
  "created_at": "2026-07-20T01:00:00Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-07-20T01:00:00Z"
}

Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Use a server-side Brightalk API key in the Authorization header.

Headers

Brightalk-Version

string

default:2026-07-16

Selects the date-based API version. Omission uses the organization’s pinned default.

Allowed value: "2026-07-16"

X-Request-Id

string

A caller-generated correlation value matching [A-Za-z0-9._:-]{1,64}. Invalid values are replaced.

Maximum string length: 64

Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._:-]{1,64}$

Path Parameters

contact_id

string

required

The opaque Contact identifier. An opaque resource identifier.

Required string length: 1 - 255

Example:

"con_demo_001"

Response

Contact returned.

id

string

required

An opaque resource identifier.

Required string length: 1 - 255

Example:

"con_demo_001"

external_id

string | null

required

The caller-managed external identity.

Example:

"customer-8421"

source

string | null

required

The external identity namespace.

Example:

"public_api"

name

string

required

Example:

"Example Customer"

phone_number

string

required

Pattern: ^\+[1-9]\d{7,14}$

Example:

"+12025550123"

email

string | null

required

The contact email address.

Example:

"customer@example.com"

company

string | null

required

The contact company.

Example:

"Example Co."

role

string | null

required

The contact role.

Example:

"Operations Manager"

city

string | null

required

The contact city.

Example:

"Taipei"

country

string | null

required

The contact country.

Example:

"TW"

created_at

string<date-time>

required

When the contact was created.

Example:

"2026-07-20T01:00:00Z"

updated_at

string<date-time>

required

When the contact was last updated.

Example:

"2026-07-20T01:00:00Z"