> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.parley.so/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get a contact > Get a single contact (person) by ID. ## OpenAPI ````yaml https://api.parley.so/openapi.json get /contacts/{id} openapi: 3.1.1 info: title: Parley API version: 1.0.0 description: >- Manage Parley's projects (matters or cases), accounts (client organizations), contacts (people), tasks, custom fields, notes, files, activity, automations, and skills. Records refer to each other as { type, id, name } references; writes take IDs. Errors are { error: { code, message, details } }, where code names what went wrong and each operation lists the codes it can return. In a query string, write a timestamp's offset as Z or %2B, because a raw + arrives as a space. The MCP server at /mcp offers the same data as a smaller set of tools. servers: - url: https://api.parley.so/v1 security: - bearerAuth: [] tags: - name: Projects description: >- A project is a matter or case: it groups the files, notes, activity, and tasks for one engagement, and links to the accounts and contacts it involves. - name: Accounts description: >- An account is a client organization. Contacts belong to it, and projects link to it. - name: Contacts description: >- A contact is a person, optionally belonging to one account and linked to projects. - name: Tasks description: >- A task is a to-do with a status, assignee, and due date, optionally about one project, account, or contact. - name: Fields description: >- Custom fields defined for projects, accounts, contacts, or tasks. Records carry their values in fields, keyed by field name. - name: Notes description: >- Markdown notes on a project, account, or contact. Updates take the version you last read, so concurrent edits fail with 409 VERSION_CONFLICT instead of overwriting. - name: Files description: >- Files and folders of a project, account, contact, or intake, or the organization's Library. Add a file by creating an upload, PUTting its bytes, and adding the upload to a location. - name: Activity description: >- What happened across the organization or on one record: changes, links, notes, files, USCIS case updates, and synced emails and meetings. Each item's kind says which details it carries. - name: Sessions description: >- Conversations with Parley's assistant, from the web app, Word, Outlook, automation runs, and the API. Start one with a message, follow up or steer it while it works, and read its replies. - name: Automations description: >- Instructions Parley's assistant carries out on a schedule, as the person who created them, with nobody present. - name: Skills description: >- Reusable playbooks for Parley's assistant: a SKILL.md plus optional bundled documents, addressed by slug. - name: Users description: The people in your organization, and the caller. paths: /contacts/{id}: get: tags: - Contacts summary: Get a contact description: Get a single contact (person) by ID. operationId: getContact parameters: - name: id in: path required: true schema: type: string minLength: 1 description: The contact ID. responses: '200': description: OK content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Contact' '400': description: The request was invalid. VALIDATION_FAILED. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationFailedError' '401': description: Missing or invalid credentials. UNAUTHORIZED. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedError' '403': description: You don't have permission. FORBIDDEN. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ForbiddenError' '404': description: Not found. NOT_FOUND. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotFoundError' '429': description: Too many requests, or a usage limit was reached. TOO_MANY_REQUESTS. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/TooManyRequestsError' components: schemas: Contact: type: object properties: id: type: string minLength: 1 description: The contact ID. firstName: type: string description: First name. Empty for some contacts created from email. lastName: type: string description: Last name. Empty for some contacts created from email. emails: type: array items: type: string description: >- Email addresses, lowercased. A contact has at most one address for now. account: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/AccountRef' - type: 'null' description: The account the contact belongs to, or null. projectCount: type: integer minimum: 0 maximum: 9007199254740991 description: >- How many projects you can see are linked to the contact. List them by filtering projects by contactId. Linking or unlinking a project doesn't change the contact's updatedAt. createdAt: type: string format: date-time description: When the contact was created. updatedAt: type: string format: date-time description: >- When the contact was last updated, including changes to its email address. Links to projects and field value changes do not change it. fields: type: object propertyNames: type: string additionalProperties: anyOf: - type: string - type: number - type: boolean - type: array items: type: string - type: object properties: streetAddress: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' cityTown: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' state: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' country: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' required: - streetAddress - cityTown - state - country description: A postal address. Each part is a string or null. - type: 'null' description: >- Custom field values, keyed by field name, with a key for every field defined for contacts (null when unset). The value's shape follows the field's type. required: - id - firstName - lastName - emails - account - projectCount - createdAt - updatedAt - fields examples: - id: cmf2x7z3e0002abcd firstName: Ada lastName: Lovelace emails: - ada@acme.example account: type: account id: cmf2x7r1p0000abcd name: Acme Corp projectCount: 1 createdAt: '2026-09-12T10:05:00.000Z' updatedAt: '2026-09-12T10:05:00.000Z' fields: Contact Type: Beneficiary Country of Birth: United Kingdom ValidationFailedError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: VALIDATION_FAILED message: type: string examples: - The request is invalid. details: type: object properties: issues: type: array items: type: object properties: path: type: string description: >- Where the problem is, as a dotted path into the input such as accountIds.add.0 or reminder.remindAt. Empty for the input as a whole. message: type: string description: What is wrong with the value. required: - path - message description: Each problem with the input. required: - issues required: - code - message - details required: - error UnauthorizedError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: UNAUTHORIZED message: type: string examples: - Missing or invalid credentials. required: - code - message required: - error ForbiddenError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: FORBIDDEN message: type: string examples: - You don't have permission to do this. required: - code - message required: - error NotFoundError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: NOT_FOUND message: type: string examples: - Not found. required: - code - message required: - error TooManyRequestsError: type: object properties: error: type: object properties: code: type: string const: TOO_MANY_REQUESTS message: type: string examples: - Too many requests. required: - code - message required: - error AccountRef: type: object properties: type: const: account id: type: string description: Its ID. name: type: string description: The account name. required: - type - id - name description: The account's type, ID, and name. securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer description: A Parley API key. ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.