---
title: "Create or upsert contacts (no campaign required)"
method: POST
path: "/contacts"
tags: ["contacts"]
---

# Create or upsert contacts (no campaign required)

`POST /contacts`

Save people without creating a campaign first. Upserts by profile URL. Returns the saved rows.

## Request body

- object
  - `contacts` object[], required — Contacts to add (single or bulk)
    - `linkedinUrl` string, required — LinkedIn profile URL, URN, or bare vanity name
    - `profileUrn` string, nullable — LinkedIn profile URN (e.g. urn:li:fsd_profile:ACoAAA...). Improves dedup when provided alongside a vanity URL.
    - `publicIdentifier` string, nullable — LinkedIn vanity slug (e.g. joshuaau). Improves dedup when provided alongside a URN.
    - `name` string, required — Profile name
    - `source` 'likes' | 'comments' | 'reposts' | 'posts' | 'company_followers' | 'search_results' | 'manual_import' | 'event_attendees' | 'group_members' | 'engagement_scraping' | 'content_search' | 'followers_mining' | 'people_search' | 'job_search' | 'company_search' | 'network_expansion' | 'bulk_visit' — How this contact was found. Optional for organic creation (defaults to manual_import), required for campaign-based addition. Unknown values default to manual_import.
    - `sourceAngle` string — Which lead-gen angle found this (e.g., 'vp-sales-france')
    - `lifecycleStage` 'contact' | 'lead' | 'qualified' | 'rejected' — Optional Fit label. Defaults to ungraded on creation. Omit when adding someone already in the list.
    - `hotScore` integer — Contact quality score (0-100)
    - `qualificationNotes` string — Agent reasoning for qualification decision
    - `leadBrief` string — Short brief for sales prep (2-3 sentences)
    - `notes` string

## Response `201`

Contacts created or updated

- object
  - `success` true, required
  - `results` object, required
    - `created` integer, required
    - `updated` integer, required
    - `skipped` integer, required
    - `errors` string[], required
    - `bucketed` integer — Rows parked as pending engagers because their URL carried no resolvable identity.
  - `contacts` object[], required — The rows as written. No per-campaign fields: this route creates no campaign membership.
    - `id` string, required
    - `linkedinUrl` string, required
    - `profileUrn` string, nullable, required — LinkedIn profile URN (e.g. urn:li:fsd_profile:ACoAAA...)
    - `publicIdentifier` string, nullable, required — LinkedIn vanity slug (e.g. joshuaau)
    - `name` string, required
    - `notes` string, nullable, required
    - `profileData` unknown
    - `profileUpdatedAt` string, nullable, required
    - `conversationData` unknown
    - `conversationUpdatedAt` string, nullable, required
    - `outreachStatus` string — Absent when the contact has no outreach status, which is the common case.
    - `lastContactedAt` string, nullable
    - `lastRepliedAt` string, nullable
    - `doNotContact` boolean — Present only when true.
    - `lastActivityAt` string, nullable — Most recent of replied, contacted, created, or a stage change.
    - `avatarUrl` string, nullable
    - `humanStatus` string — One sentence describing where this contact stands, for a human or a model to read.
    - `tags` string[], required
    - `createdAt` string, required
    - `updatedAt` string, required
  - `creditsUsed` integer, required — Credits consumed by this call. 0 for free endpoints, cached results, duplicates, and for every query that does not touch LinkedIn.
  - `retryAfter` integer, required — Seconds to wait before another call of the same type. 0 means no wait is needed.
  - `_meta` object — Credit balance carried on every response so a caller never has to ask for it separately. Absent when the caller has no connected account.
    - `credits` object, required
      - `current` number, required — Credits spent this period.
      - `limit` number, nullable, required — Period allowance, or null when unlimited.
      - `remaining` number, nullable, required — Allowance left, or null when unlimited.
      - `percentage` number, required — Share of the allowance spent, 0 to 100.
      - `isUnlimited` boolean, required
      - `accountPlan` string, required — The credential's plan.

## Other responses

- `400` — The server cannot or will not process the request due to something that is perceived to be a client error.
- `401` — Although HTTP specifies "unauthorized", this response means "unauthenticated". Authenticate to continue. NOTE: 401 is also returned with code "linkedin_not_connected" when the caller IS authenticated but has no connected LinkedIn account — connect LinkedIn (not re-authenticate) to continue.
- `403` — The client does not have access rights to the content.
- `404` — The server cannot find the requested resource.
- `409` — The request conflicts with the current state of the server.
- `410` — The requested content has been permanently deleted from the server.
- `422` — The request was well-formed but was unable to be followed due to semantic errors.
- `429` — Rate limit exceeded. Read error.retryAfter for the wait time in seconds.
- `500` — The server encountered a situation it does not know how to handle.
- `502` — LinkedIn returned a server error or the proxy connection failed. Retry after a few seconds.
- `503` — Proxy capacity temporarily exceeded. Retry after a few seconds.

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