Manage contacts in Freshsales (Freshworks CRM) using the REST API

domain: developers.freshworks.com · 5 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Authenticate using HTTP Basic auth with YOUR_KEY as the username and any string (e.g., X) as the password, or use the Authorization: Token token=YOUR_KEY header format
  2. The base URL is https://{your-domain}.myfreshworks.com/crm/sales/api/contacts — replace {your-domain} with your Freshsales account subdomain
  3. Create a contact by POSTing to /contacts with a JSON body containing contact fields such as first_name, last_name, and email
  4. Search for contacts by email using GET /contacts/search?term={email}&include=owner
  5. Update a contact with PUT /contacts/{id} providing the fields to change; retrieve a contact with GET /contacts/{id}

Known gotchas

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