Get Contact

Beta

Fetch one contact by id, scoped to the caller’s workspace, with its live identifiers. Returns 404 for missing, merged-away, or foreign-workspace contacts - contact existence is never leaked across workspaces.

Authentication

AuthorizationBearer

Enter your API key with the Bearer prefix, e.g. ‘Bearer sk_…’.

Path parameters

contact_idstringRequired

Contact id (prefixed external id, contact_...).

Headers

Speechify-VersionstringOptional

Response headers

Speechify-Request-IdstringOptional
Unique identifier for this request, present on every response (2xx and non-2xx alike). If the caller sends a `Speechify-Request-Id` request header the server echoes it back (sanitized and length-capped) so one logical request can be traced end-to-end; otherwise the server generates a fresh value. Log it on every response and quote it in support requests - it is the stable handle that ties your observation to Speechify's server-side logs, and it matches the `request_id` field in the error envelope. The legacy alias `X-Request-ID` carries the same value and is still accepted on requests, until 2027-07-24. Prefer the un-prefixed name (RFC 6648).

Response

The contact.
idstringformat: "^contact_[0-9a-hjkmnp-tv-z]{26}$"

Prefixed wire identifier (contact_<26 char Crockford base32>). URL paths accept only this prefixed form; bare UUIDs are rejected with 404.

tenant_idstringformat: "^ws_[0-9a-hjkmnp-tv-z]{26}$"
Workspace that owns this contact.
metadatamap from strings to any

Customer-controlled JSON blob.

identifierslist of objects

The contact’s live identifiers. Always present; empty only for a contact whose every link has been detached.

first_seen_atdatetime
Earliest sighting across every channel and agent. A merge widens this to span both records, because the window belongs to the person rather than to whichever record saw them first.
last_seen_atdatetime
created_atdatetime
updated_atdatetime
display_namestringOptional

Operator-editable name. Absent when nobody has named this person and no resolver supplied one.

Errors

401
Unauthorized Error
404
Not Found Error