> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.answeringagent.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Search contacts > Customers, newest first. Matches the name, phone, email, company, or notes. Customer API. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /openapi.yaml get /contacts openapi: 3.0.0 info: title: Answering Agent API description: > The Customer API reads a team's conversations, transcripts, recordings, tasks, contacts, and reports. It also updates tasks and adds notes to them. The Partner API lets reseller accounts manage organizations, users, locations, partner links, and embed tokens. Both use an X-API-KEY header. Requests from this playground go to production. version: 1.0.0 servers: - url: https://answeringagent.com/api/v1 description: Production security: [] tags: - name: Account description: Customer API. Your team, phone lines, and members. - name: Conversations description: >- Customer API. Calls, texts, website chats, and emails, with transcripts and recordings. - name: Tasks description: >- Customer API. Follow-up tasks. Read them, update their status or assignee, and add notes. - name: Contacts description: Customer API. Your customers. - name: Reports description: Customer API. Report metrics, totals, and breakdowns. - name: Organizations description: Partner API, reseller accounts only. - name: Users description: Partner API, reseller accounts only. - name: Locations description: Partner API, reseller accounts only. - name: Account Linking description: Partner API, reseller accounts only. - name: Embed Tokens description: Partner API, reseller accounts only. paths: /contacts: get: tags: - Contacts summary: Search contacts description: >- Customers, newest first. Matches the name, phone, email, company, or notes. Customer API. operationId: searchContacts parameters: - $ref: '#/components/parameters/SearchQuery' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Page' responses: '200': description: One page of contacts. content: application/json: schema: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageInfo' - type: object properties: contacts: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Contact' '400': $ref: '#/components/responses/CustomerBadRequest' '401': $ref: '#/components/responses/CustomerUnauthorized' '403': $ref: '#/components/responses/CustomerForbidden' '405': $ref: '#/components/responses/CustomerMethodNotAllowed' '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/CustomerRateLimited' security: - ApiKeyAuth: [] components: parameters: SearchQuery: in: query name: query required: false schema: type: string maxLength: 100 description: Words to search for. Limit: in: query name: limit required: false schema: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 50 default: 10 description: Results per page. Page: in: query name: page required: false schema: type: integer minimum: 1 default: 1 description: Page number. Use next_page from the previous response. schemas: PageInfo: type: object properties: total_matching: type: integer example: 214 page: type: integer example: 1 next_page: type: integer nullable: true example: 2 Contact: type: object properties: id: type: integer example: 77310 url: type: string example: https://answeringagent.com/dashboard/contacts/77310 name: type: string nullable: true phone: type: string nullable: true email: type: string nullable: true company: type: string nullable: true stage: type: string nullable: true tags: type: array items: type: string notes: type: string nullable: true blocked: type: boolean phone_call_count: type: integer description: >- Phone calls with this contact that the key can see. Texts, chats, and emails that started on their own are not counted. first_contact_at: type: string format: date-time nullable: true description: >- When the contact record was created. Not always the first conversation. last_call_at: type: string format: date-time nullable: true description: >- When the contact's latest phone call or website chat handoff started. Null when the key cannot see it. CustomerError: type: object required: - error - code properties: error: type: string description: A message for people. The text can change. example: That conversation is not available. code: type: string description: A stable code to branch on. enum: - invalid_request - unauthorized - forbidden - not_found - method_not_allowed - conflict - unprocessable - rate_limited - internal example: not_found issues: type: array description: >- Present when code is invalid_request. One entry for each input that failed validation. items: type: object properties: path: type: array items: {} message: type: string responses: CustomerBadRequest: description: An input is missing or invalid. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomerError' CustomerUnauthorized: description: >- The X-API-KEY header is missing, the key is wrong or revoked, or its owner was deactivated. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomerError' CustomerForbidden: description: The key's owner is not an owner, admin, or manager on the team. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomerError' CustomerMethodNotAllowed: description: The endpoint does not support that HTTP method. Nothing changed. headers: Allow: description: The methods the endpoint supports, such as GET, HEAD, OPTIONS. schema: type: string content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomerError' example: error: This endpoint accepts GET. code: method_not_allowed CustomerRateLimited: description: More than 120 requests in a minute for this user. headers: Retry-After: description: Seconds to wait before retrying. schema: type: integer content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CustomerError' securitySchemes: ApiKeyAuth: type: apiKey in: header name: X-API-KEY ```` This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.