Phone ID - Identity attributes: Contact

The Contact identity attribute allows you to retrieve the name, address, and other contact info associated with the subscriber for the phone number you submit. The information returned by this identity attribute includes:

First Name
Last Name
Street Address
City
State (or Province)
Country
ZIP Code
Email Address

Example

This is an example of using Phone ID with the Contact identity attribute.

Request

POST https://rest-ww.telesign.com/v1/phoneid/15555551212 HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic 12345678-9ABC-DEF0-1234-56789ABCDEF0:vjE/ZDfPvDkuGNsuqCFFO4neYIs=
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:11:09 GMT
Content-Type: application/json 
{  
        "addons": {
            "contact": {}
        }
}

Response (body only)

{
  "contact": {
    "address1": "2432 CHIMNEY POINT LN",
    "address2": "",
    "address3": "",
    "address4": "",
    "city": "LEXINGTON",
    "country": "",
    "first_name": "MYLA",
    "last_name": "JONES",
    "state_province": "KY",
    "status": {
      "code": 2800,
      "description": "Request successfully completed"
    },
    "zip_postal_code": "40509",
    "email_address": "[email protected]"
  }
}

Request and response for the Contact identity attribute

Contact request parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
addons	object	This parameter allows you to receive information returned from your enabled identity attributes. Contact our Customer Support Team to add this feature.
addons.contact	object	The Contact identity attribute allows you to retrieve the name and address associated with the phone number you submit, without requesting explicit consent from your end user. Information included in the response is the first name, last name, street address, city, state (or province), country, and ZIP code.

Contact response

Property	Type	Description	Example
reference_id	string	A 32-digit hex value used to identify the web service request. The value is unique to each web service request, is randomly generated by Telesign, and is returned in the response message immediately following the web service request.
phone_type	string	One of the phone type codes.
description	string	Text describing the phone type.
contact	object	You will only see this in your response if you used the Contact identity attribute.
contact.address1	string	The name of the street in the address of the subscriber.
contact.address2	string	Unit or suite number in the address of the subscriber.
contact.address3	string	Town, city, or state in the address of the subscriber.
contact.address4	string	Postal code in the address of the subscriber.
contact.city	string	The city in the address of the subscriber.
contact.country	string	The country in the address of the subscriber.
contact.date_of_birth	string	(Vietnam-phone numbers only). The date of birth of the subscriber, in {YYYY}-{MM}-{DD} format. This property is not returned by default; to request addition of this property contact our Customer Support Team.	1958-01-01
contact.first_name	string	The first name of the subscriber.
contact.id	string	(Vietnam-phone numbers only). The unique Vietnamese government-issued ID for this subscriber. This property is not returned by default; to request addition of this property contact our Customer Support Team.	300206845
contact.last_name	string	The last name of the subscriber.
contact.email_address	string	The email address of the subscriber.
contact.state_province	string	State or province in the address of the subscriber.
contact.status	object	Contains details about the delivery status of this package.
contact.status.code	string	A status or error code describing what happened after your request.
contact.status.description	string	A brief description of what the error or status code means.
contact.zip_postal_code	string	Postal code in the address of the subscriber.