---
title: "Bulk Get Contacts"
method: POST
path: "/contacts/bulk-get"
tags: ["Contacts"]
---

# Bulk Get Contacts

`POST /contacts/bulk-get`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1`
- URL: `https://be.graph8.com/api/v1/contacts/bulk-get`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Full records for up to 100 contacts in ONE request. Writes nothing.

Use this instead of looping `GET /contacts/{contact_id}`: `GET /contacts`
returns a lean summary per contact, and the loop spends one rate-limit slot per
contact to get the other fields. Each item is exactly what the per-contact
route returns, through the same access check. A contact that does not exist
or is outside the key's scope comes back `found: false`, rather than failing
the batch. POST only because the ids are a body; it is tiered as a read.

## Headers

- `Authorization` string, nullable
- `X-Target-Org-Id` string, nullable

## Request body

- ContactBulkGetRequest: Which contacts to read in full.
  - `contact_ids` integer[], required: Up to 100 contact ids, the ids `GET /contacts` returns. Duplicates are read once; the response keeps first-seen order.
  - `include_custom_fields` boolean: When true, each found contact includes a `custom_fields` object keyed by column slug, as `GET /contacts/{contact_id}?include_custom_fields=true` does.

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ApiResponseContactBulkGetResponse
  - `data` ContactBulkGetResponse, required
    - `items` ContactBulkGetItem[]
      - `contact_id` integer, required
      - `found` boolean, required: False when the contact does not exist or is outside this key's scope (indistinguishable on purpose, like the per-contact 404).
      - `contact` ContactResponse
        - `id` integer, required
        - `first_name` string, nullable
        - `last_name` string, nullable
        - `full_name` string, nullable
        - `work_email` string, nullable
        - `personal_emails` unknown
        - `direct_phone` string, nullable
        - `mobile_phone` string, nullable
        - `job_title` string, nullable
        - `job_department` string, nullable
        - `seniority_level` string, nullable
        - `linkedin_url` string, nullable
        - `twitter_url` string, nullable
        - `facebook_url` string, nullable
        - `city` string, nullable
        - `state` string, nullable
        - `country` string, nullable
        - `about` string, nullable
        - `confidence_score` number, nullable
        - `company` ContactCompanySummary
          - `id` integer, nullable
          - `name` string, nullable
          - `domain` string, nullable
          - `website` string, nullable
          - `industry` string, nullable
          - `employee_count` string, nullable
          - `city` string, nullable
          - `state` string, nullable
          - `country` string, nullable
          - `linkedin_url` string, nullable
          - `logo_url` string, nullable
        - `meta_data` object, nullable
        - `custom_fields` object, nullable
        - `created_at` string, nullable
        - `updated_at` string, nullable
  - `pagination` PaginationMeta
    - `page` integer, required: Current page number (1-indexed)
    - `limit` integer, required: Items per page
    - `total` integer, required: Total number of items
    - `has_next` boolean, required: Whether there are more pages
    - `next_cursor` string, nullable: Opaque cursor for the next page; null when there are no more items. Pass it back as the `cursor` query param to fetch the following page without computing page numbers.
    - `total_available` integer, nullable: Search endpoints only: how many records really match, when known. Can be larger than `total`, which is capped at the 10,000 results that can be paged. For company search this is a distinct-company estimate. Null when unknown; absent outside search.
    - `total_is_lower_bound` boolean, nullable: Search endpoints only: true when more records match than `total` shows (the result set is larger than the 10,000 results that can be paged). Absent outside search.
    - `notes` string[], nullable: Search endpoints only: plain-language notes about the result, e.g. that more records match than can be paged, or that a reversed `between` range was put in order.

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

---

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