Create Contact

Creates a new contact in respond.io.

POST

Query

Field selectionChoose which fields should be included in the response. Learn more

string

Comma-separated response fields to include.

Body

Arguments

stringrequired

Contact identifier (email: or phone:).

stringrequired

Contact first name.

string

Contact last name.

string

Contact phone number in E.164 format.

string

Contact email address.

string

ISO 639-1 language code.

string

Public URL of the contact avatar.

string

ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.

array of object

Array of custom field updates: [{name, value}].

stringrequired

Custom field name (required for each custom field object).

string

Custom field value for the given custom field name.

Try this request

Request

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v1/universal/respondio/latest/actions/create-contact" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $MINDCLOUD_API_TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
  "connectionId": "$CONNECTION_ID",
  "identifier": "",
  "firstName": "",
  "customFields[].name": ""
}'

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    {
      "code": 1,
      "message": "string"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {}
}

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