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Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Contacts API

Create, retrieve, update, and delete contacts in Marketing Cloud. Contacts represent individuals who interact with your marketing campaigns across channels.

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Salesforce Marketing Cloud Contacts API is one of 17 APIs that Salesforce Marketing Cloud publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Contacts. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, an API reference, a getting-started guide, and rate-limit docs.

This API exposes 6 operations across 4 paths, and defines 11 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://{subdomain}.rest.marketingcloudapis.com.

6 operations 4 paths 11 schemas 1 DELETE2 GET1 PATCH2 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://YOUR_SUBDOMAIN.rest.marketingcloudapis.com
Authentication
OAuth 2.0
Contact
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Support
License
Salesforce Master Subscription Agreement
Terms of Service
View terms
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Salesforce Marketing Cloud Contacts API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It supports OAuth 2.0 (OAuth2) using the clientCredentials flow. By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • OAuth2 — Marketing Cloud uses OAuth 2.0 client credentials flow for authentication. Obtain a client ID and secret from an installed package in Marketing Cloud Setup, th…

Paths & Operations 6

Across 4 paths, the API surfaces 6 operations — 1 DELETE, 2 GET, 1 PATCH, 2 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Contacts 6

Create, retrieve, update, and delete contacts in Marketing Cloud. Contacts represent individuals who interact with your marketing campaigns across channels.

POST
/contacts/v1/contacts
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Create Contacts
createContacts body → 200400401403429500
POST
/contacts/v1/contacts/actions/search
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Search Contacts
searchContacts body → 200400401429500
GET
/contacts/v1/contacts/{contactKey}
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Retrieve a Contact by Contact Key
getContact 1 param → 200400401404429500
PATCH
/contacts/v1/contacts/{contactKey}
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Update a Contact
updateContact 1 param body → 200400401404429500
DELETE
/contacts/v1/contacts/{contactKey}
Salesforce Marketing Cloud Delete a Contact
deleteContact 1 param → 200400401404429500
GET
/contacts/v1/attributeSets
Salesforce Marketing Cloud List Attribute Sets
listAttributeSets → 200401429500

Schemas 11

The contract defines 11 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Contact (6 properties), ContactResponse (4 properties), ContactSearchResponse (4 properties), DeleteContactResponse (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

ContactSearchRequest
object
Request body for searching contacts with filter criteria
2 properties
ErrorResponse
object
Standard error response returned by the Marketing Cloud API
3 properties
AttributeSet
object
A named collection of attributes that define a category of contact data, such as Email Addresses or MobileConnect Demographics.
2 properties
DeleteContactResponse
object
Response from a contact delete operation
4 properties
ContactSearchResponse
object
Response returned from a contact search operation
4 properties
ContactResponse
object
Response returned after contact creation or update operations
4 properties
UpdateContactRequest
object
Request body for updating contact attributes
1 property 1 required
CreateContactsRequest
object
Request body for creating one or more contacts
2 properties 1 required
Contact
object
Represents a contact in Marketing Cloud. A contact is an individual who interacts with marketing campaigns across channels.
6 properties 1 required
AttributeSetsResponse
object
Response containing a collection of attribute sets
2 properties
AttributeValue
object
A single attribute name-value pair within an attribute set
2 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

salesforce-marketing-cloud-contacts-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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API Details
ID
salesforce-marketing-cloud:salesforce-marketing-cloud-contacts-api
Base URL
https://YOUR_SUBDOMAIN.rest.marketingcloudapis.com
Docs
https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/marketing/marketing-cloud/overview
Provider
Salesforce Marketing Cloud
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