# Fetch contact list

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-contact-list/4957>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Created:** [July 10, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-contact-list/4957 "2019-07-10T11:53:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![harald.glanzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eada6e/32.png) [@harald.glanzer](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/harald.glanzer)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 11:53am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-contact-list/4957/1 "2019-07-10T11:53:02Z")

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hello,

is there a way to fetch a user’s contact list (or IM groups + corresponding group members) WITHOUT admin level scope?

for all API calls i found so far, a corresponding ‘account level oauth app’ needs to be installed, AND the authenticating oauth user needs to have ‘admin’ role.

[https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/users/users](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/users/users) - scope: user:read:admin  
[https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/groups/groups:](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/groups/groups:) group - scope: read:admin  
[https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/groups/groupmembers](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/groups/groupmembers) - scope: group:write:admin

- how is the user chat list populated on the zoom desktop client?
- why needs ‘groupmembers’ even WRITE permissions?

thx  
hari

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**Author:** ![ojus.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/ojus.zoom/32/734_2.png) [@ojus.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ojus.zoom)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-contact-list/4957/2 "2019-07-11T04:37:43Z")

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Hi @harald.glanzer,

Currently all of our Groups & IM group APIs require admin level scopes.

> [@harald.glanzer](#):
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> how is the user chat list populated on the zoom desktop client?

If you want to see groups in the Zoom desktop client, click on the contact section (top of your zoom client) and you can see groups.

 ![12%20PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/2X/a/ad45c53a0318e91ce265661802e9e86a5d01e9df.png)

If you want to chat, I would recommend you to create a channel.

> [@harald.glanzer](#):
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> why needs ‘groupmembers’ even WRITE permissions?

I am currently investigating on this and will get back to you with an update soon.

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**Author:** ![harald.glanzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eada6e/32.png) [@harald.glanzer](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/harald.glanzer)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 7:32am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-contact-list/4957/3 "2019-07-11T07:32:44Z")

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hi ojus, thx for your answer!

> [@ojus.zoom](#):
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> If you want to see groups in the Zoom desktop client, click on the contact section (top of your zoom client) and you can see groups.

… aehm yes i know that - my question was how did you implement this ‘fetch contacts’. i guess you do NOT use the rest api for that (or at least no public one)

thx  
hari

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**Author:** ![ojus.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/ojus.zoom/32/734_2.png) [@ojus.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/ojus.zoom)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 5:34pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-contact-list/4957/4 "2019-07-11T17:34:02Z")

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@harald.glanzer, are you looking to create something like a group chat feature?  
If yes, currently that feature is not available. You can consider creating a channel.

You would have to manually create a channel, and cannot do it via API at the moment. We certainly do have it in our future roadmap.

You can follow our [changelog](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/changelog) and [developer roadmap](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/getting-started/stay-up-to-date/roadmap) to see the latest updates.

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**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 6:33pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-contact-list/4957/5 "2020-08-21T18:33:23Z")

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