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GET
/
contacts
/
{id}
Get a contact
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.bookingshake.io/api/contacts/{id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
import requests

url = "https://api.bookingshake.io/api/contacts/{id}"

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)

print(response.text)
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

fetch('https://api.bookingshake.io/api/contacts/{id}', options)
.then(res => res.json())
.then(res => console.log(res))
.catch(err => console.error(err));
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.bookingshake.io/api/contacts/{id}",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"Authorization: Bearer <token>"
],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main

import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://api.bookingshake.io/api/contacts/{id}"

req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.bookingshake.io/api/contacts/{id}")
.header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
.asString();
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.bookingshake.io/api/contacts/{id}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
{
  "message": "success",
  "data": {
    "id": "contact-456",
    "first_name": "John",
    "last_name": "Doe",
    "email": "john.doe@example.com",
    "phone": "+33612345678",
    "landline_phone": "+33145678901",
    "title": "CEO",
    "position": "Head of Events",
    "avatar": null,
    "comments": null,
    "account_id": "account-123",
    "optin_marketing": true,
    "optin_general": false,
    "address_line_1": "10 rue Example",
    "address_line_2": null,
    "postal_code": "75001",
    "city": "Paris",
    "country": "France",
    "created_at": 1731493800000,
    "custom_u1v2w3x4y5": "VIP",
    "custom_z6a7b8c9d0": null
  }
}
{
"message": "invalid token"
}
{
"message": "not found"
}
{
"message": "Rate limit exceeded",
"data": {
"limit": 60,
"window": "60 seconds",
"remaining": 0,
"resetAt": "2025-11-17T14:30:00.000Z",
"retryAfter": 45
}
}
{
"message": "error"
}

Authorizations

Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication using your BookingShake API key. Retrieve your API key from Settings > Integrations in your BookingShake dashboard.

Path Parameters

id
string
required

Contact ID (the id field carried by the contact.created webhook).

Response

Contact retrieved successfully

message
string
Example:

"success"

data
object

A contact (person) attached to your venue, optionally linked to an account. Every field is present with an explicit null when unset. The country field is verbatim as entered. account_id is the raw ID of the linked account (or null). Custom fields (custom_<uuid>) configured for your venue are included, also with explicit null when unset.