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Individual Contacts

Use this endpoint to retrieve (GET), update (PUT), or optout/unsubscribe (DELETE) a contact. To create a new contact, use the POST method for the contacts-collection API.

Methods:

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GET PUT DELETE

DescriptionTOP

Privileges: contacts:write

Using the DELETE method on a contact resource changes the contact's status to OPTOUT, which means that you can no longer send campaigns to this contact. Delete/OPTOUT a contact specified using the contactId path parameter. Learn more about contact status here.

DELETE: https://api.constantcontact.com/v2/contacts/{contactId}

Test API

name

type

default

description

api_key

query

REQUIRED; The API key for the application

contactId

path

Id of the contact being deleted

Response CodesTOP

code

description

204

Request was successful. No content will be returned

401

Authentication failure

404

Contact not found for id

500

Internal server error occurred