Get company contacts

Returns all company contacts for your ConstructionOnline company account

get https://api.constructiononline.com/api/v2/Contacts?companyID={companyID}

This endpoint returns all company contacts associated with the user's ConstructionOnline company account. Users are only permitted to use the ID associated with their company. The user's company ID is stored in the property 'COMPANY_ID'. If the user's company ID matches the provided ID, all company contacts for the user's company account will be returned.

Requests

REQUIRED PARAMETERS

companyID: integer

  • Unique identifier for the user's company.

Example URL request:

  • https://api.constructiononline.com/api/Contacts?companyID=4332

Example requests in cURL, C#, Python, and JavaScript can be found below:

cURL

# replace {email} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
# {password} with your ConstructionOnline password
# {apikey} with your provided API key
# {companyID} with the company ID


curl https://api.constructiononline.com/api/v2/Contacts?companyID={companyID} -u {email}:{password} -H 'APIKey:{apikey}'

C#

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
{apikey} with your provided API key
{companyID} with the company ID */

public string GetData(string endpoint) {
string username = "{username}";
string password = "{password}";
string apikey = "{apikey}";
HttpResponseMessage response = null;
HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler() { AutomaticDecompression = System.Net.DecompressionMethods.GZip };
    using (HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler)) {
        client.Timeout = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 30);
        client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://api.constructiononline.com");
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic",
System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetBytes(username + ":" + password)));
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("APIKey", apikey);
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");
        response = client.GetAsync(endpoint).Result;
    }
    return response?.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
}
MessageBox.Show(GetData("api/v2/Contacts?companyID={companyID}"));

Python

#replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
#{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
#{apikey} with your provided API key
#{companyID} with the company ID

import base64, requests, json
apikey = "{apikey}"
username = "{username}"
password = "{password}"
def makeRequest(endpoint):
url = "https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint
userPass = username + ":" + password
headers = {
"APIKey": apikey,
"Accept-Encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"Authorization": "Basic " + base64.b64encode(userPass.encode()).decode(),
}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
return json.dumps(json.loads(response.text), indent=2)

#Main Program
print(makeRequest("api/v2/Contacts?companyID={companyID}"))

JavaScript

/* replace {username} with the email address for your ConstructionOnline account
{password} with your ConstructionOnline password
{apikey} with your provided API key
{companyID} with the company ID */

username = '{username}';
password = '{password}';
apikey = '{apikey}';
function makeRequest(endpoint) {
    auth = btoa('${username}:${password}');
    var myHeaders = new Headers();
    myHeaders.append("APIKey", apikey);
    myHeaders.append("Accept-Encoding", "gzip, deflate, br");
    myHeaders.append("Authorization", "Basic ${auth}");
    var requestOptions = {
        method: 'GET',
        headers: myHeaders,
        redirect: 'follow'
   };
    fetch("https://api.constructiononline.com/" + endpoint, requestOptions)
        .then(response => response.text())
        .then(result => console.log(result))
        .catch(error => console.log('error', error));
    return response;
};makeRequest("api/v2/Contacts?companyID={companyID}");

Responses

Responses

green 200: Success

A successful request will return a 200 response with the requested contact(s) in the body, as seen below. Definitions for all returned properties can be found here

{
    "ID": 29,
    "FIRSTNAME": "Alice",
    "LASTNAME": "Conway",
    "EMAIL": "alice@conwayconstruction.com",
    "ACCOUNT": "999197",
    "LACCESS": "2023-09-21T19:23:10.97",
    "LMOD": "2023-04-21T13:51:13.673",
    "DISPLAY_NAME": "Alice Conway",
    "COMPANY": "Conway Construction",
    "ADDRESS": "",
    "CITY": "Auburn",
    "STATE": "AL",
    "ZIP": "36830",
    "PHONE": "",
    "MOBILE_PHONE": "",
    "MOBILE_PROVIDER": "",
    "FAX": "",
  "LMOD_CON_ID": 29,
    "ISCOMPANY": false,
    "MIDDLENAME": "",
    "WEBSITE": "",
  "CREATOR_ID": 29,
"CREATOR_NAME": "",
    "TIMEZONE_OFFSET": -5.0,
    "AUTO_TIMEZONE": true,
    "COMPANY_ID": 4332,
    "COMPANY_NAME": "Contronics",
    "COUNTRY_SETTING": 1,
    "LANGUAGE_SETTING": 1,
    "LAT": 32.538900,
  "LON": -85.492100,
  "COMPANY_PERMISSIONS": 0,
    "IS_COMPANY_ADMIN": true,
    "OFFLINE_FILES": null,
    "FAVORITE_PROJECTS": "1114693,1114695,1367248,1379267,1381613,1383024",
    "DATE_FORMAT": 0,
    "TIME_FORMAT": 0,
  "TIMEZONE_ID": "America/Chicago",
"CONTACT_QUALITY": 0,
"CONTACT_REGION": 0,
   "CONTACT_DIVISION": 0,
   "CONTACT_OFFICE": 0,
   "CONTACT_CATEGORY": 0,
   "CONTACT_TRADE": 0,
"FIELD_ID": 0,
    "MESSAGE_SIGNATURE": "",
    "GENERAL_CALENDAR_COLOR": "#FFA61B"
"IS_LEAD": 0,
"IS_SUB": 0,
"IS_CLIENT": 0
}

red 404: Error

The server was not able to locate the resource specified in the request. The company ID may have been entered incorrectly.

red 429: Error

The user has surpassed the request rate limit for the hour, day, week, or month.

 red 500: Error

There was an internal server error and the server was unable to complete the request.

 

Last updated: Dec 21, 2023