Lever Contacts API

Contacts represent unique people across multiple opportunities, allowing Lever to deduplicate candidates who apply to multiple roles.

Business capability
Talent Acquisition Management BC-300.10

Operations 2

GET /contacts/{contact} Retrieve a single contact #
PUT /contacts/{contact} Update a contact #

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OpenAPI Specification

lever-contacts-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Lever Contacts API
  version: '2026-11-05'
  description: 'GENERATED FROM DOCUMENTATION by API Evangelist on 2026-11-05: 114 operation(s) read from 3 public documentation page(s) (each operation names its page in x-source). This is not the provider''s published contract; Lever has published no machine-readable contract that the pipeline could find. Engine: anthropic.'
  x-evidence-tiers:
    code-example: 86
    documentation: 102
    pages-with-code: 2
    pages-read: 3
  x-generated-from: documentation
  x-provenance: generated
  x-authored-by: API Evangelist
  x-generated: '2026-11-05'
  x-generator: generate-contract-from-docs.py
  x-engine: anthropic
  x-sources:
  - https://hire.lever.co/developer/updates
  - https://hire.lever.co/developer/deprecated
  - https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation
  x-cleaned: '2026-11-05: 112 operations kept of 188 generated; 88 example-instance paths folded onto their documented template, 76 dropped because their METHOD+path is not on the documentation or Deprecated page (receiver examples, /oauth/token on auth.lever.co, /j/{jid}, literal-id instances already covered). Then 2 documented operation(s) recovered from the earlier generated contract: GET /opportunities/deleted, POST /postings/{posting}/apply.'
servers:
- url: https://api.lever.co/v1
  description: Production (the root URL for the Lever API web service is https://api.lever.co/v1)
- url: https://api.sandbox.lever.co/v1
  description: Integrator Sandbox (partner program; https://hire.lever.co/developer/partner)
security:
- basic: []
tags:
- name: Contacts
paths:
  /contacts/{contact}:
    get:
      operationId: get_contacts_contact
      tags:
      - Contacts
      summary: Retrieve a single contact
      x-source: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation
      parameters:
      - name: contact
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (status as documented)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GetContactsContactResponse'
      x-evidence:
        kind: documentation
    put:
      operationId: put_contacts_contact
      tags:
      - Contacts
      summary: Update a contact
      x-source: https://hire.lever.co/developer/documentation
      parameters:
      - name: contact
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/PutContactsContactRequest'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Success (status as documented)
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PutContactsContactResponse'
      x-evidence:
        kind: documentation
components:
  schemas:
    PutContactsContactResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Contact UID
        name:
          type: string
          description: Contact name
        headline:
          type: string
          description: Contact headline or company
        location:
          type: object
          description: The current location of the contact
        emails:
          type: array
          description: Emails that the contact can be reached at
        phones:
          type: array
          description: Phone numbers for the contact
    GetContactsContactResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          description: Contact UID
        name:
          type: string
          description: Contact name
        headline:
          type: string
          description: Contact headline or company
        location:
          type: object
          description: The current location of the contact
        emails:
          type: array
          description: Emails that the contact can be reached at
        phones:
          type: array
          description: Phone numbers for the contact
        isAnonymized:
          type: boolean
          description: Whether a contact has been anonymized
    PutContactsContactRequest:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: Contact name
        headline:
          type: string
          description: Contact headline or company
        location:
          type: string
          description: Location as free-text string or structured object with components
        emails:
          type: array
          description: Emails that the contact can be reached at
        phones:
          type: array
          description: Phone numbers for the contact
  securitySchemes:
    basic:
      type: http
      scheme: basic