# Adding / Removing Contacts

### <mark style="color:green;">`GET`</mark> `/api/contacts`

Add or delete contacts from our applications using our proxy API.&#x20;

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Curl" %}

```hsts
curl -XGET 'https://tasks-wave.mobivate.com/api/contacts/create?username=username&password=password&msisdn=447000000001&applications=optouts:call'
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://tasks-wave.mobivate.com/api/contacts/create?username=username&password=password&msisdn=447000000001&applications=optouts:call',
)
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Curl" %}

```http
curl -XGET 'https://tasks-wave.mobivate.com/api/contacts/delete?username=username&password=password&msisdn=447000000001&applications=optouts:call'
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import requests

response = requests.get(
    'https://tasks-wave.mobivate.com/api/contacts/delete?username=username&password=password&msisdn=447000000001&applications=optouts:call',
)
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

**Headers**

| Name          | Value              |
| ------------- | ------------------ |
| Content-Type  | `application/json` |
| Authorization | `No Auth`          |

**Body**

| Parameter    | Required | Description                                                                                   |
| ------------ | -------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| username     | Yes      | The username used to login to Mobivate.                                                       |
| password     | Yes      | The password used to login to Mobivate.                                                       |
| msidn        | Yes      | Phone number in international format.                                                         |
| applications | Yes      | Comma separated list of applications to subscribe to / remove from (see below).               |
| name         | No       | The contacts name to use.                                                                     |
| reference    | No       | Optional custom reference for the contact, used as callcentre reference id or custom 1 field. |

{% hint style="info" %}
Please note. Supplied reference is for your identification only.
{% endhint %}

**Response**

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200" %}

```json
{
    "status": "ok",
    "optouts:robocall": "ok"
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="401" %}

```json
{
   "code":401,
   "message":"Not Authenticated"
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### **Applications**

Applications are denoted as a comma `","` separated list, with colon `":"` as the separator between the app name and identification token of the contact group/recurring campaign.

| Application Name        | Description                  |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| appointments            | The appointment booking app. |
| recurring: `CampaignId` | The periodic reminder app.   |
| contacts: `ListId`      | The main contacts app.       |
| callcentre: `SetupId`   | The Callcentre app.          |
| optouts: `sms / call`   | Generic optouts.             |

### **Finding the Identification Tokens**

**Recurring**

The `CampaignId` can be obtained as the last numeric parameter of the url while editing the campaign details.

**Contacts Group**

The `ContactGroupId` is shown on the group details at the bottom of the right column.

**CallCentre**

The `SetupId` is shown on the setup details at the bottom of the right column.

**OptOuts**

The identification is either `sms` for sms optouts or `calls` for robocall optouts.

To find out more about our applications, [click here](https://www.mobivate.com/bulk-sms/system-features).


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