contactfolder-post-contacts.md

title	description	author	ms.localizationpriority	ms.subservice	doc_type
Create Contact	Add a contact to the root Contacts folder or to the `contacts` endpoint of another contact folder.	kevinbellinger	medium	outlook	apiPageType

Create Contact

Namespace: microsoft.graph

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Add a contact to the root Contacts folder or to the contacts endpoint of another contact folder.

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Permissions

One of the following permissions is required to call this API. To learn more, including how to choose permissions, see Permissions.

Permission type	Permissions (from least to most privileged)
Delegated (work or school account)	Contacts.ReadWrite
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Contacts.ReadWrite
Application	Contacts.ReadWrite

HTTP request

POST /me/contacts
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contacts

POST /me/contactFolders/{id}/contacts
POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/contactFolders/{id}/contacts

Request headers

Header	Value
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-Type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, supply a JSON representation of Contact object.

Response

If successful, this method returns 201 Created response code and Contact object in the response body.

Example

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/contactFolders/{id}/contacts
Content-type: application/json

{
  "parentFolderId": "parentFolderId-value",
  "birthday": "2016-10-19T10:37:00Z",
  "fileAs": "fileAs-value",
  "displayName": "displayName-value",
  "givenName": "givenName-value",
  "initials": "initials-value"
}

C#

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CLI

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Go

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Java

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JavaScript

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PHP

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PowerShell

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Python

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In the request body, supply a JSON representation of contact object.

Response

The following example shows the response. Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-type: application/json

{
  "parentFolderId": "parentFolderId-value",
  "birthday": "2016-10-19T10:37:00Z",
  "fileAs": "fileAs-value",
  "displayName": "displayName-value",
  "givenName": "givenName-value",
  "initials": "initials-value"
}