List Contacts

Retrieve your contacts with pagination, search, filtering, and sorting. You can also fetch a single contact by ID.

List All Contacts

Retrieve a paginated list of contacts in your organization.

Endpoint

GET /contacts

Query Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
limit	number	20	Items per page (min: 1, max: 100)
after	string	—	Cursor — return items after this id (exclusive).
before	string	—	Cursor — return items before this id (exclusive).
search	string	—	Search across email, first name, and last name
list_id	string	—	Filter by contact list ID
tag_id	string	—	Filter by tag ID

Results are returned newest first. See Pagination for cursor details.

Response

{
  "object": "list",
  "has_more": true,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "01957e3a-4b5c-7d8e-9f0a-1b2c3d4e5f6a",
      "email": "john.doe@example.com",
      "phone_number": "+201234567890",
      "first_name": "John",
      "last_name": "Doe",
      "source": "api",
      "properties": {
        "company": "Acme Inc"
      },
      "is_suppressed": false,
      "created_at": "2026-03-01T10:00:00.000Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ]
}

See Create Contact for the per-item field reference.

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Examples

cURL

curl "https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts?limit=20&search=john" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer be_your_api_key"

# Next page — pass the id of the last item from the previous response as `after`
curl "https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts?limit=20&search=john&after=01957e3a-4b5c-7d8e-9f0a-1b2c3d4e5f6a" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer be_your_api_key"

JavaScript

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  limit: "20",
  search: "john",
});

const response = await fetch(
  `https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts?${params}`,
  {
    headers: { Authorization: "Bearer be_your_api_key" },
  }
);

const { data, has_more } = await response.json();
console.log(`Got ${data.length} contacts; more available: ${has_more}`);

for (const contact of data) {
  console.log(`${contact.id}: ${contact.email} — ${contact.first_name} ${contact.last_name}`);
}

Python

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer be_your_api_key"},
    params={
        "limit": 20,
        "search": "john",
    },
)

result = response.json()
for contact in result["data"]:
    print(f"{contact['id']}: {contact['email']} — {contact['first_name']} {contact['last_name']}")

C#

using var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer be_your_api_key");

var response = await client.GetAsync(
    "https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts?limit=20&search=john"
);
var json = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Console.WriteLine(json);

PHP

<?php
$query = http_build_query([
    "limit" => 20,
    "search" => "john"
]);

$ch = curl_init("https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts?{$query}");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "Authorization: Bearer be_your_api_key"
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$data = json_decode($response, true);

foreach ($data["data"] as $contact) {
    echo "{$contact['id']}: {$contact['email']}\n";
}
curl_close($ch);

Filter by List

curl "https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts?list_id=01957e3a-4b5c-7d8e-9f0a-1b2c3d4e5f6a&limit=50" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer be_your_api_key"

Filter by Tag

curl "https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts?tag_id=01957e3a-4b5c-7d8e-9f0a-1b2c3d4e5f6b&limit=50" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer be_your_api_key"

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Get Contact Details

Retrieve a single contact by ID.

Endpoint

GET /contacts/:id

Path Parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
id	string	The contact ID

Response

Returns the same shape as Create Contact.

{
  "id": "01957e3a-4b5c-7d8e-9f0a-1b2c3d4e5f6a",
  "email": "john.doe@example.com",
  "phone_number": "+201234567890",
  "first_name": "John",
  "last_name": "Doe",
  "source": "api",
  "properties": {
    "company": "Acme Inc",
    "job_title": "Software Engineer",
    "city": "Cairo"
  },
  "is_suppressed": false,
  "created_at": "2026-01-15T10:00:00.000Z",
  "updated_at": "2026-03-08T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Examples

cURL

curl "https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts/01957e3a-4b5c-7d8e-9f0a-1b2c3d4e5f6a" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer be_your_api_key"

JavaScript

const contactId = "01957e3a-4b5c-7d8e-9f0a-1b2c3d4e5f6a";

const response = await fetch(
  `https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts/${contactId}`,
  {
    headers: { Authorization: "Bearer be_your_api_key" },
  }
);

const contact = await response.json();
console.log(`${contact.first_name} ${contact.last_name}`);

Python

import requests

contact_id = "01957e3a-4b5c-7d8e-9f0a-1b2c3d4e5f6a"

response = requests.get(
    f"https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts/{contact_id}",
    headers={"Authorization": "Bearer be_your_api_key"},
)

contact = response.json()
print(f"{contact['first_name']} {contact['last_name']}")

C#

using var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer be_your_api_key");

var contactId = "01957e3a-4b5c-7d8e-9f0a-1b2c3d4e5f6a";
var response = await client.GetAsync($"https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts/{contactId}");
var json = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Console.WriteLine(json);

PHP

<?php
$contactId = "01957e3a-4b5c-7d8e-9f0a-1b2c3d4e5f6a";
$ch = curl_init("https://api.arsel.sa/v1/contacts/{$contactId}");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [
    "Authorization: Bearer be_your_api_key"
]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
$contact = json_decode($response, true);
echo "{$contact['first_name']} {$contact['last_name']}\n";
curl_close($ch);