# Forward Email Contacts API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-contacts-api/  
**Provider:** Forward Email — https://apis.io/providers/forward-email/  
**Base URL:** https://api.forwardemail.net  
**Documentation:** https://forwardemail.net/

Forward Email Contacts API is one of 16 APIs that [Forward Email](https://apis.io/providers/forward-email/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 6 JSON Schema definitions. Tagged areas include Contacts. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and 6 JSON Schemas.

Alias contacts management endpoints (CardDAV) >[!NOTE] >Unlike other API endpoints, these require Authentication "username" equal to the alias username and "password" equal to the alias generated password as Basic Authorization headers. >[!TIP] >These endpoints provide full CRUD operations for contact management with vCard support, including creation, retrieval, updating, and deletion of contacts. You can provide either vCard content directly or individual contact fields that will be converted to vCard format.

## Operations (5)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/v1/contacts` | List contacts |
| POST | `/v1/contacts` | Create contact |
| GET | `/v1/contacts/{id}` | Retrieve contact |
| PUT | `/v1/contacts/{id}` | Update contact |
| DELETE | `/v1/contacts/{id}` | Delete contact |

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **OpenAPI** — https://artifacts.apis.io/forward-email/openapi/forward-email-contacts-api-openapi.yml
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/forward-email/json-schema/forward-email-domain-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/forward-email/json-schema/forward-email-update-domain-input-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/forward-email/json-schema/forward-email-message-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/forward-email/json-schema/forward-email-smtp-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/forward-email/json-schema/forward-email-alias-account-schema.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://artifacts.apis.io/forward-email/json-schema/forward-email-alias-input-schema.json

## Other Forward Email APIs (12)

- [Forward Email Account API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-account-api/)
- [Forward Email Aliases API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-aliases-api/)
- [Forward Email Calendar Events API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-calendar-events-api/)
- [Forward Email Calendars API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-calendars-api/)
- [Forward Email Domains API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-domains-api/)
- [Forward Email Emails API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-emails-api/)
- [Forward Email Encrypt API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-encrypt-api/)
- [Forward Email Folders API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-folders-api/)
- [Forward Email Invites API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-invites-api/)
- [Forward Email Logs API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-logs-api/)
- [Forward Email Members API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-members-api/)
- [Forward Email Messages API](https://apis.io/apis/forward-email/forward-email-messages-api/)

## Tags

Contacts

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