# Fetch Personal, External and Cloud Contacts using the API

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-personal-external-and-cloud-contacts-using-the-api/85185>\
**Category:** API and Webhooks\
**Tags:** webhooks, api\
**Created:** [March 23, 2023, 5:12am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-personal-external-and-cloud-contacts-using-the-api/85185 "2023-03-23T05:12:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![albert\_dapiton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/albert_dapiton/32/46172_2.png) [@albert\_dapiton](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/albert_dapiton)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2023, 5:12am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-personal-external-and-cloud-contacts-using-the-api/85185/1 "2023-03-23T05:12:18Z")

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**Description**  
Is there a way to get the data from the user’s personal, external, and cloud contacts added in zoom My Contacts using the API?

The scope contact:read:admin in Contacts is not mentioned in the OAuth scope [https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/auth/oauth/oauth-scopes/](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/auth/oauth/oauth-scopes/) is this scope deprecated?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![bbcorhitter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/bbcorhitter/32/46890_2.png) [@bbcorhitter](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/bbcorhitter)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-personal-external-and-cloud-contacts-using-the-api/85185/2 "2023-03-28T09:46:48Z")

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Hi Albert Dapiton,  
Yes, it is possible to get the data from the user’s personal, external, and cloud contacts added in Zoom My Contacts using the API. However, the contact:read:admin scope is not mentioned in the OAuth scope and it is unclear whether it is deprecated or not.

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**Author:** ![albert\_dapiton](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/albert_dapiton/32/46172_2.png) [@albert\_dapiton](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/albert_dapiton)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2023, 11:10pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-personal-external-and-cloud-contacts-using-the-api/85185/3 "2023-03-28T23:10:56Z")

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Hi @bbcorhitter ,  
Good day!  
Thanks for the reply. I’m currently using Free Basic plan and able to get the external contacts using this API in Zoom [https://api.zoom.us/v2/chat/users/me/contacts?type=external](https://api.zoom.us/v2/chat/users/me/contacts?type=external). Looks like I need to upgrade the plan in order to enable access to the needed API as mentioned [here](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/neet-to-access-zoom-account-personal-contacts-and-call-history/81343/2).

Using [Contact Group](https://zoom-developer-doc.zoomapp.cloud/docs/api/rest/reference/zoom-api/methods/#tag/Contact-Groups) API we need to create a group and assign people can we transfer our external contact and cloud contact to the group we created?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/3X/6/1/614bdd549b610bbaa46ff934617683a02bdaa03c.png) [@system](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2024, 2:47pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/fetch-personal-external-and-cloud-contacts-using-the-api/85185/4 "2024-03-31T14:47:12Z")

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