> ## Documentation Index
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# Show Contact

> Get a contact belonging to the account using ID



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json get /api/v1/accounts/{account_id}/contacts/{id}
openapi: 3.0.4
info:
  title: Tied API
  description: >-
    The Tied REST API. Three families of endpoint, each with its own credential:
    **Application** for everything inside an account, **Platform** for
    provisioning accounts and users, and **Client** for acting as a contact from
    your own surface.
  version: 1.1.0
  termsOfService: https://tied.com/legal
  contact:
    email: hello@tied.com
  license:
    name: MIT License
    url: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
servers:
  - url: https://app.tied.com
    description: Tied cloud
security: []
tags:
  - name: Account AgentBots
    description: Account-specific Agent Bots
  - name: Agents
    description: Agent management APIs
  - name: Canned Responses
    description: Pre-defined responses for common queries
  - name: Contacts
    description: Contact management APIs
  - name: Contact Labels
    description: Manage contact labels
  - name: Conversation Assignments
    description: Manage conversation assignments
  - name: Conversation Labels
    description: Manage conversation labels
  - name: Conversations
    description: Conversation management APIs
  - name: Custom Attributes
    description: Custom fields for contacts and conversations
  - name: Custom Filters
    description: Saved filters for conversations
  - name: Inboxes
    description: Communication channels setup
  - name: Integrations
    description: Third-party integrations
  - name: Messages
    description: Message management APIs
  - name: Profile
    description: User profile APIs
  - name: Reports
    description: Analytics and reporting APIs
  - name: Teams
    description: Team management APIs
  - name: Webhooks
    description: Event notification webhooks
  - name: Automation Rule
    description: Workflow automation rules
  - name: Help Center
    description: Knowledge base management
  - name: Contacts API
    description: Public contact APIs
  - name: Conversations API
    description: Public conversation APIs
  - name: Messages API
    description: Public message APIs
  - name: CSAT Survey Page
    description: Customer satisfaction survey
  - name: Account
    description: >-
      The authenticated user's own account — read and update account settings.
      Distinct from the Platform family's **Accounts**, which provisions
      accounts across an installation.
  - name: Audit Logs
    description: Read the account's audit trail
  - name: Inbox API
    description: Public inbox lookup by channel identifier
  - name: Labels
    description: >-
      Create and manage the account's labels. Applying one to a conversation or
      contact is a separate endpoint under those resources.
  - name: Macros
    description: >-
      Saved multi-step actions an agent — or an integration — can run against
      one or more conversations.
  - name: Campaigns
    description: Ongoing website campaigns and one-off SMS and WhatsApp sends.
  - name: Contact Notes
    description: Internal notes on a contact. Never visible to the contact.
  - name: Help Center Categories
    description: Categories group a portal's articles, one tree per allowed locale.
  - name: Help Center Articles
    description: The articles a portal publishes, and their draft and archived states.
  - name: Summary Reports
    description: Per-agent, per-team, per-inbox and per-label totals for a period, as JSON.
  - name: Live Reports
    description: Right-now queue counts. No date range — these describe the present.
  - name: CSAT
    description: >-
      The satisfaction ratings contacts have submitted, and the metrics computed
      from them.
  - name: Notifications
    description: >-
      The per-user notification feed, its read and snooze state, and the
      settings that decide what lands in it.
  - name: Conversation Participants
    description: >-
      The agents watching a conversation. Participants get notified about it
      without being assigned to it.
  - name: Draft Messages
    description: >-
      The unsent reply held for a conversation. Stored in Redis, one per
      conversation.
  - name: Search
    description: >-
      One search service across conversations, contacts, messages and Help
      Center articles.
  - name: Dashboard Apps
    description: Embedded pages that appear as a tab beside a conversation.
  - name: Assignment Policies
    description: How conversations are handed out, and which inbox uses which policy.
  - name: Files
    description: Storing a file so another endpoint can attach it.
  - name: Bot Flows
    description: >-
      Scripted conversation flows, their versions, and the publish and rollback
      that move between them.
  - name: Billing
    description: >-
      Credit balance, usage, invoices, spend controls and the provider-hosted
      payment flows.
  - name: AMB Templates
    description: >-
      Saved Apple Messages primitive payloads an agent can reuse from the
      composer.
  - name: AMB Onboarding
    description: The in-flight Apple Messages for Business registration for an account.
  - name: Widget Session
    description: Starting a widget session and reading the visitor it belongs to.
  - name: Widget Conversation
    description: The visitor's conversation and its messages.
  - name: Widget Context
    description: Campaigns, agents, labels, events and uploads for a widget session.
  - name: CSAT Survey
    description: The public, unauthenticated survey a contact answers from a link.
  - name: Workspace
    description: Scheduling and cancelling deletion of the whole workspace.
paths:
  /api/v1/accounts/{account_id}/contacts/{id}:
    parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/account_id'
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: number
        description: ID of the contact
    get:
      tags:
        - Contacts
      summary: Show Contact
      description: Get a contact belonging to the account using ID
      operationId: contactDetails
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/contact_show_response'
              example:
                payload:
                  additional_attributes:
                    city: San Francisco
                    country: United States
                    location: San Francisco, United States
                    description: >-
                      Head of Customer Experience at Northwind Supply. Migrating
                      off a legacy helpdesk and launching on Apple Messages
                      first. Prefers async follow-up.
                    company_name: Northwind Supply Co.
                    country_code: US
                    created_at_ip: 203.0.113.10
                    updated_at_ip: 203.0.113.10
                    avatar_url_hash: '0000000000000000000000000000000000000000'
                    social_profiles:
                      github: mokonkwo
                      tiktok: northwindsupply
                      twitter: mayabuildscx
                      facebook: northwindsupply
                      linkedin: maya-okonkwo
                      instagram: northwind.supply
                    last_avatar_sync_at: '2026-09-21T02:21:05Z'
                    social_telegram_user_name: maya_okonkwo
                  availability_status: offline
                  email: maya@northwindsupply.com
                  id: 135
                  name: Maya Okonkwo
                  phone_number: '+14155550198'
                  blocked: false
                  identifier: in_example
                  thumbnail: >-
                    https://app.tied.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/proxy/EXAMPLE/avatar.png
                  thumbnail_background_color: null
                  domain_logo_avatar: false
                  customer_verified: true
                  custom_attributes:
                    plan_tier: Premium
                    lead_source: Apple Messages — pricing page
                    profile_url: https://tied.com/customers/northwind-supply
                    customer_since: '2024-03-15'
                    lifetime_value: '48500'
                    loyalty_discount: '12'
                    newsletter_opt_in: true
                    satisfaction_score: '92'
                  last_activity_at: 1789957263
                  created_at: 1789957262
                  contact_inboxes:
                    - source_id: sr_example
                      inbox:
                        id: 1
                        avatar_url: >-
                          https://app.tied.com/rails/active_storage/blobs/proxy/EXAMPLE/avatar.png
                        channel_id: 1
                        name: Apple Messages
                        channel_type: Channel::Amb
                        provider: null
        '403':
          description: Access denied
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/error_message'
        '404':
          description: Contact not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/error_message'
      security:
        - userApiKey: []
components:
  parameters:
    account_id:
      in: path
      name: id
      schema:
        type: integer
      required: true
      description: The numeric ID of the account
  schemas:
    contact_show_response:
      type: object
      properties:
        payload:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/contact_list_item'
    error_message:
      type: object
      description: >-
        The shape returned by `render_unauthorized`, `render_not_found_error`
        and `render_could_not_create_error`.
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: A single human-readable message.
          example: Resource could not be found
      required:
        - error
    contact_list_item:
      type: object
      properties:
        additional_attributes:
          type: object
          description: The object containing additional attributes related to the contact
          properties:
            city:
              type: string
              description: City of the contact
            country:
              type: string
              description: Country of the contact
            country_code:
              type: string
              description: Country code of the contact
            created_at_ip:
              type: string
              description: IP address when the contact was created
        availability_status:
          type: string
          description: Availability status of the contact
          enum:
            - online
            - offline
        email:
          type: string
          description: The email address of the contact
          nullable: true
        id:
          type: integer
          description: The ID of the contact
        name:
          type: string
          description: The name of the contact
        phone_number:
          type: string
          description: The phone number of the contact
          nullable: true
        blocked:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether the contact is blocked
        identifier:
          type: string
          description: The identifier of the contact
          nullable: true
        thumbnail:
          type: string
          description: The thumbnail of the contact
        custom_attributes:
          type: object
          description: The custom attributes of the contact
        last_activity_at:
          type: integer
          description: Timestamp of last activity
          nullable: true
        created_at:
          type: integer
          description: Timestamp when contact was created
        contact_inboxes:
          type: array
          description: List of inboxes associated with this contact
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/contact_inbox'
    contact_inbox:
      type: object
      properties:
        source_id:
          type: string
          description: Source identifier for the contact inbox
        inbox:
          type: object
          properties:
            id:
              type: integer
              description: ID of the inbox
            avatar_url:
              type: string
              description: URL for the inbox avatar
            channel_id:
              type: integer
              description: ID of the channel
            name:
              type: string
              description: Name of the inbox
            channel_type:
              type: string
              description: Type of channel
            provider:
              type: string
              description: Provider of the inbox
              nullable: true
          description: The inbox this channel identity belongs to.
  securitySchemes:
    userApiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: api_access_token
      description: >-
        This token can be obtained by visiting the profile page or via rails
        console. Provides access to  endpoints based on the user permissions
        levels. This token can be saved by an external system when user is
        created via API, to perform activities on behalf of the user.

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