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GET
Get a specific contact

Authorizations

X-Api-Key
string
header
required

Instance or customer-level API key. Either the instance's own API key or the customer's API key is accepted. Must be paired with the X-Instance-Id header to identify the target instance.

Headers

X-Instance-Id
string
default:{{instanceId}}
required

The ID of the WhatsApp instance to use

Path Parameters

id
string
required

Contact JID

Response

Contact info

Represents a WhatsApp user with all known identifiers. The id field is always present: it prefers a phone-based JID, falling back to LID.

id
string

Primary identifier (phone-based JID preferred, LID fallback)

Example:

"1234567890@s.whatsapp.net"

lid
string

LID-based JID (omitted if unknown)

Example:

"222424242@lid"

phone
string

Phone number without prefix (omitted if unknown)

Example:

"1234567890"

device
integer

Device number (omitted if 0)

Example:

2

fullName
string
firstName
string
pushName
string
businessName
string
inPhoneAddressBook
boolean