Search Contacts

Search for contacts in SendGrid.

Options

Field Definition Type Required
Result Set Choose whether the search returns First Matching Record or First 50 Matching Records. Dropdown TRUE

Input

Field Definition Type Required
Contact
Address Line 1 First line of the address. String FALSE
Address Line 2 Optional second line for the address. String FALSE
Alternate Emails Additional emails associated with the contact. String FALSE
City City of the contact. String FALSE
Country Country of the contact's address. Accepts full name or abbreviation. String FALSE
Email Primary email for the contact. String FALSE
First Name Contact's personal name. String FALSE
Last Name Contact's family name. String FALSE
Postal Code Postcode, post code, Eircode, PIN code or ZIP code. String FALSE
State Province Region State, province, or region of the contacts address. String FALSE
Search By Custom Filter
Custom Filter

A custom search filter that may be used in addition to or separately from the rest of the input fields on this Search Contacts action card. To use a custom filter, you must create an SGQL expression. See Segmentation Query Language Reference.

Example 1

Search query with empty input fields in the Contact section and this custom filter: email = 'myemail@mail.com'

This search produces contacts with this exact email address.

Example 2

Search query with values in one or more input fields in the Contact section and this custom filter: OR email = 'myemail@mail.com'

This search produces contacts that either match the values in the input fields or the custom filter.

Example 3

"query": "email LIKE '%john%' AND city LIKE '%New%'"

This search produces contacts with email address that contain "john" and any city that contains "New".

Example 4

"query": "email LIKE '%john%' OR city LIKE '%New%'"

This search produces contacts with email address that contain "john" or contacts with any city that contains "New".

Example 5

"query": "email = 'john.smith@email.com' OR city = 'New'"

This search produces contacts with the email address john.smith@email.com or contacts with any city that contains "New".

You must use the custom filter expression email ="<email>" to return data for the following fields:

  • Phone Number

  • Whatsapp

  • Line

  • Facebook

  • Unique Name

Various FALSE

Output

Field Definition Type
Contact
Address Line 1 First line of the address. String
Address Line 2 Optional second line for the address. String
Alternate Emails Additional emails associated with the contact. String
City City of the contact. String
Country Country of the contact's address. Accepts full name or abbreviation. String
Email Primary email for the contact. String
ID Unique identifier of the contact in SendGrid. String
First Name Contact's personal name. String
Last Name Contact's family name. String
List IDs IDs of lists to which the contact is added. List of Text
Postal Code Postcode, post code, Eircode, PIN code or ZIP code . String
Segment IDs IDs of segments in which the contact is included. List of Text
State Province Region State, province, or region of the contacts address. String
Phone Number Primary phone number for the contact. String
Whatsapp Whatsapp account for the contact. String
Line Landline for the contact. String
Facebook Primary Facebook profile for the contact. String
Unique Name Unique name assigned to the contact. String
Created At Time this record was created, in unixtime. String
Updated At Last update date for this contact's record. String
Custom Fields Custom fields created for the contact in SendGrid. Various

Related topics

SendGrid connector

Workflow elements

SendGrid API Reference