Get Contact of List

GET https://emailoctopus.com/api/1.6/lists/:listId/contacts/:memberId

Get details of a contact of a list.

Route parameters
listId (string)	The ID of the list.
memberId (string)	The ID of the list contact, or an MD5 hash of the lowercase version of the list contact's email address.

Parameters
api_key (string)	Your API key.

200 (success) returns

Details of the contact:

id (string)	The identifier of the contact.
email_address (string)	The email address of the contact.
fields (object)	An object containing key/value pairs of field values, using the field's tag as the key.
tags (array)	An array of tags associated with the contact.
status (string)	The status of the contact: `SUBSCRIBED`, `UNSUBSCRIBED` or `PENDING`.
created_at (string)	When the contact was created, in ISO 8601 format.
last_updated_at (string)	When the contact was last updated, in ISO 8601 format.

Non-200 (error) returns

Details of the error:

code (string)	The error code.
message (string)	A description of the error.

Method-specific error codes
MEMBER_NOT_FOUND	The contact could not be found.

API-wide error codes
INVALID_PARAMETERS	Parameters are missing or invalid.
API_KEY_INVALID	Your API key is invalid.
UNAUTHORISED	You're not authorised to perform that action.
NOT_FOUND	The requested endpoint does not exist.
UNKNOWN	An unknown error has occurred.

Example request
/api/1.6/lists/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/contacts/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?api_key=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Example response

Example response
`{ "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", "email_address": "john.doe@example.com", "fields": { "FirstName": "John", "LastName": "Doe", "Birthday": "2000-12-20" }, "tags": ["vip"], "status": "SUBSCRIBED", "created_at": "2024-12-11T00:00:00+00:00", "last_updated_at": "2024-12-12T05:35:30+00:00" }`

                        
                                {
    "id": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
    
    "email_address": "john.doe@example.com",
    
    "fields": {
        "FirstName": "John",
        "LastName": "Doe",
        "Birthday": "2000-12-20"
    },
    "tags": ["vip"],
    "status": "SUBSCRIBED",
    "created_at": "2024-12-11T00:00:00+00:00",
    "last_updated_at": "2024-12-12T05:35:30+00:00"
}

Code sample copy
curl -X GET \ https://emailoctopus.com/api/1.6/lists/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/contacts/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?api_key=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
$ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'https://emailoctopus.com/api/1.6/lists/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/contacts/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?api_key=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET'); $result = curl_exec($ch); if (curl_errno($ch)) { echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch); } curl_close($ch);
import requests params = ( ('api_key', '00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000'), ) response = requests.get('https://emailoctopus.com/api/1.6/lists/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/contacts/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', params=params)
var https = require('https'); var options = { hostname: 'emailoctopus.com', port: 443, path: '/api/1.6/lists/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/contacts/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?api_key=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000', method: 'GET', }; var req = https.request(options); req.end();
package main import ( "io/ioutil" "log" "net/http" ) func main() { client := &http.Client{} req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://emailoctopus.com/api/1.6/lists/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000/contacts/00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000?api_key=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000", nil) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } resp, err := client.Do(req) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } bodyText, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } }