---
title: "List people"
method: GET
path: "/v1/people"
tags: ["People"]
---

# List people

`GET /v1/people`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.slant.app`
- URL: `https://api.slant.app/v1/people`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

List all people across clients, prospects, and contacts. Supports filtering by role_type, email, phone, name, and updated_since.

## Query parameters

- `page` integer
- `per_page` integer
- `book_id` string
- `role_type` 'client' | 'prospect' | 'contact' | 'past_client'
- `include_past_clients` 'true' | 'false'
- `email` string
- `phone` string
- `name` string
- `updated_since` string, date-time

## Response `200`

successful

- object
  - `data` Person[], required
    - `id` string, required: The person ID
    - `book_id` string, required: The book ID
    - `household_id` string, nullable: The household ID
    - `contact_id` string, nullable: The contact ID (present when person belongs to a contact)
    - `role_type` 'client' | 'prospect' | 'contact' | 'past_client', nullable: The entity type this person belongs to
    - `created_at` string, date-time, required: When the person was created
    - `updated_at` string, date-time, required: When the person record was last updated. Associated record changes do not advance this timestamp.
    - `first_name` string, required
    - `middle_name` string, nullable
    - `last_name` string, required
    - `salutation` string, nullable
    - `suffix` string, nullable
    - `maiden_name` string, nullable
    - `gender` 'female' | 'male' | 'nonbinary' | 'other' | 'prefer_not_to_say', nullable
    - `designations` string, nullable
    - `household_role` 'head_of_household' | 'partner' | 'spouse' | 'dependent_child' | 'other_adult' | 'other_dependent' | 'unknown' | 'deceased' | 'non_dependent_child' | 'grandchild', nullable: Only present when person belongs to a household
    - `preferred_name` string, nullable
    - `date_of_birth` string, date, nullable: Date of birth
    - `date_of_death` string, date, nullable: Date of death
    - `job_title` string, nullable: Job title
    - `ssn` string, nullable: Obfuscated social security number
    - `drivers_license_number` string, nullable: Obfuscated driver's license number
    - `email_addresses` Email[]: Array of email addresses with primary designation
      - `email` string, email, required
      - `email_type` 'personal' | 'business' | 'school' | 'other' | 'inactive', required
      - `is_primary` boolean, required
      - `id` string: The email address ID
    - `phone_numbers` PhoneNumber[]: Array of phone numbers with primary designation
      - `phone_number` string, required
      - `extension` string, nullable
      - `phone_type` 'mobile' | 'work' | 'home' | 'fax' | 'other', required
      - `is_primary` boolean, required
      - `id` string: The phone number ID
    - `addresses` Address[]: Array of addresses with primary designation
      - `line1` string, nullable
      - `line2` string, nullable
      - `city` string, nullable
      - `state` string, nullable
      - `zip` string, nullable
      - `country_code` string, nullable
      - `address_type` 'home' | 'work' | 'mailing' | 'other', required
      - `is_primary` boolean, required
      - `id` string: The address ID
    - `employments` Employment[]: Included for contacts; otherwise retrieve employment history through GET /v1/people/{person_id}/employments.
      - `id` string: The employment ID
      - `person_id` string: The person ID
      - `business_id` string, nullable: Linked employer Business ID, when available
      - `business_name` string, required
      - `role` string, nullable
      - `start_date` string, date, nullable
      - `end_date` string, date, nullable
      - `actively_employed` boolean
    - `custom_fields` object: Custom field values as key-value pairs
  - `pagination` object, required
    - `current_page` integer
    - `total_pages` integer
    - `total_count` integer
    - `per_page` integer

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request - malformed JSON, invalid filters, or missing required book context
- `401`: unauthorized - missing or invalid token
- `403`: Access denied. Policy and membership failures may have an empty body. A read-only personal token cannot perform writes.
- `429`: An hourly API rate limit was exceeded. Wait Retry-After seconds before retrying.

## Changes

- **2026-11-03** `173c41bf6be9`: 1 warning, 12 info
  - added the new `inactive` enum value to the `data/items/email_addresses/items/email_type` response property for the response status `200`
  - added the new optional `query` request parameter `updated_since`
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `403`
  - added the non-success response with the status `429`
  - …9 more

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/slant/apis/slant-public-api-v1/changes/v1/people/get.md)

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/slant/apis/slant-public-api-v1.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/slant/apis/slant-public-api-v1/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/slant/apis/slant-public-api-v1/revisions/173c41bf6be9?raw)