Update a contact

curl --request PUT \
  --url https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId} \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-access-token: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "first_name": "<string>",
  "last_name": "<string>",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "company": "<string>",
  "title": "<string>",
  "phone": "<string>",
  "about": "<string>",
  "salutation": "<string>",
  "honorific": "<string>",
  "address_line_1": "<string>",
  "address_line_2": "<string>",
  "address_city": "<string>",
  "address_state": "<string>",
  "address_postal_code": "<string>",
  "address_country": "<string>",
  "custom_fields": {},
  "translated_fields": [
    {
      "parent_field_internal_name": "<string>",
      "translated_language": "<string>",
      "value": "<unknown>"
    }
  ]
}
'

import requests

url = "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}"

payload = {
    "updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "first_name": "<string>",
    "last_name": "<string>",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "company": "<string>",
    "title": "<string>",
    "phone": "<string>",
    "about": "<string>",
    "salutation": "<string>",
    "honorific": "<string>",
    "address_line_1": "<string>",
    "address_line_2": "<string>",
    "address_city": "<string>",
    "address_state": "<string>",
    "address_postal_code": "<string>",
    "address_country": "<string>",
    "custom_fields": {},
    "translated_fields": [
        {
            "parent_field_internal_name": "<string>",
            "translated_language": "<string>",
            "value": "<unknown>"
        }
    ]
}
headers = {
    "x-access-token": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.put(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'PUT',
  headers: {'x-access-token': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    updated_at: '2023-11-07T05:31:56Z',
    first_name: '<string>',
    last_name: '<string>',
    email: '[email protected]',
    company: '<string>',
    title: '<string>',
    phone: '<string>',
    about: '<string>',
    salutation: '<string>',
    honorific: '<string>',
    address_line_1: '<string>',
    address_line_2: '<string>',
    address_city: '<string>',
    address_state: '<string>',
    address_postal_code: '<string>',
    address_country: '<string>',
    custom_fields: {},
    translated_fields: [
      {
        parent_field_internal_name: '<string>',
        translated_language: '<string>',
        value: '<unknown>'
      }
    ]
  })
};

fetch('https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PUT",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'updated_at' => '2023-11-07T05:31:56Z',
    'first_name' => '<string>',
    'last_name' => '<string>',
    'email' => '[email protected]',
    'company' => '<string>',
    'title' => '<string>',
    'phone' => '<string>',
    'about' => '<string>',
    'salutation' => '<string>',
    'honorific' => '<string>',
    'address_line_1' => '<string>',
    'address_line_2' => '<string>',
    'address_city' => '<string>',
    'address_state' => '<string>',
    'address_postal_code' => '<string>',
    'address_country' => '<string>',
    'custom_fields' => [
        
    ],
    'translated_fields' => [
        [
                'parent_field_internal_name' => '<string>',
                'translated_language' => '<string>',
                'value' => '<unknown>'
        ]
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "x-access-token: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"updated_at\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n  \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n  \"company\": \"<string>\",\n  \"title\": \"<string>\",\n  \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n  \"about\": \"<string>\",\n  \"salutation\": \"<string>\",\n  \"honorific\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_1\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_2\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_city\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_state\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_country\": \"<string>\",\n  \"custom_fields\": {},\n  \"translated_fields\": [\n    {\n      \"parent_field_internal_name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"translated_language\": \"<string>\",\n      \"value\": \"<unknown>\"\n    }\n  ]\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.put("https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}")
  .header("x-access-token", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"updated_at\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n  \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n  \"company\": \"<string>\",\n  \"title\": \"<string>\",\n  \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n  \"about\": \"<string>\",\n  \"salutation\": \"<string>\",\n  \"honorific\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_1\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_2\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_city\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_state\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_country\": \"<string>\",\n  \"custom_fields\": {},\n  \"translated_fields\": [\n    {\n      \"parent_field_internal_name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"translated_language\": \"<string>\",\n      \"value\": \"<unknown>\"\n    }\n  ]\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"updated_at\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n  \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n  \"company\": \"<string>\",\n  \"title\": \"<string>\",\n  \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n  \"about\": \"<string>\",\n  \"salutation\": \"<string>\",\n  \"honorific\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_1\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_2\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_city\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_state\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_country\": \"<string>\",\n  \"custom_fields\": {},\n  \"translated_fields\": [\n    {\n      \"parent_field_internal_name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"translated_language\": \"<string>\",\n      \"value\": \"<unknown>\"\n    }\n  ]\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
  "friendly_id": "SPK-42",
  "full_name": "Dr. Jane Smith",
  "first_name": "Jane",
  "last_name": "Smith",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "created_at": "2023-11-01T10:00:00Z",
  "updated_at": "2024-02-15T16:30:00Z",
  "photo_url": "https://cdn.sessionboard.com/photos/jane-smith.jpg",
  "company_name": "State University",
  "title": "Professor of Computer Science",
  "about": "Dr. Smith is a leading researcher in distributed systems.",
  "address_city": "Austin",
  "address_state": "TX",
  "address_country": "US",
  "honorific": "Dr.",
  "pronouns": "she/her",
  "topic_expertise": "Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing",
  "custom_fields": [],
  "translated_fields": []
}

PUT

event

{eventId}

contacts

{contactId}

Update a contact

curl --request PUT \
  --url https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId} \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-access-token: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
  "first_name": "<string>",
  "last_name": "<string>",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "company": "<string>",
  "title": "<string>",
  "phone": "<string>",
  "about": "<string>",
  "salutation": "<string>",
  "honorific": "<string>",
  "address_line_1": "<string>",
  "address_line_2": "<string>",
  "address_city": "<string>",
  "address_state": "<string>",
  "address_postal_code": "<string>",
  "address_country": "<string>",
  "custom_fields": {},
  "translated_fields": [
    {
      "parent_field_internal_name": "<string>",
      "translated_language": "<string>",
      "value": "<unknown>"
    }
  ]
}
'

import requests

url = "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}"

payload = {
    "updated_at": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z",
    "first_name": "<string>",
    "last_name": "<string>",
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "company": "<string>",
    "title": "<string>",
    "phone": "<string>",
    "about": "<string>",
    "salutation": "<string>",
    "honorific": "<string>",
    "address_line_1": "<string>",
    "address_line_2": "<string>",
    "address_city": "<string>",
    "address_state": "<string>",
    "address_postal_code": "<string>",
    "address_country": "<string>",
    "custom_fields": {},
    "translated_fields": [
        {
            "parent_field_internal_name": "<string>",
            "translated_language": "<string>",
            "value": "<unknown>"
        }
    ]
}
headers = {
    "x-access-token": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.put(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'PUT',
  headers: {'x-access-token': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    updated_at: '2023-11-07T05:31:56Z',
    first_name: '<string>',
    last_name: '<string>',
    email: '[email protected]',
    company: '<string>',
    title: '<string>',
    phone: '<string>',
    about: '<string>',
    salutation: '<string>',
    honorific: '<string>',
    address_line_1: '<string>',
    address_line_2: '<string>',
    address_city: '<string>',
    address_state: '<string>',
    address_postal_code: '<string>',
    address_country: '<string>',
    custom_fields: {},
    translated_fields: [
      {
        parent_field_internal_name: '<string>',
        translated_language: '<string>',
        value: '<unknown>'
      }
    ]
  })
};

fetch('https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PUT",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'updated_at' => '2023-11-07T05:31:56Z',
    'first_name' => '<string>',
    'last_name' => '<string>',
    'email' => '[email protected]',
    'company' => '<string>',
    'title' => '<string>',
    'phone' => '<string>',
    'about' => '<string>',
    'salutation' => '<string>',
    'honorific' => '<string>',
    'address_line_1' => '<string>',
    'address_line_2' => '<string>',
    'address_city' => '<string>',
    'address_state' => '<string>',
    'address_postal_code' => '<string>',
    'address_country' => '<string>',
    'custom_fields' => [
        
    ],
    'translated_fields' => [
        [
                'parent_field_internal_name' => '<string>',
                'translated_language' => '<string>',
                'value' => '<unknown>'
        ]
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "x-access-token: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"updated_at\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n  \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n  \"company\": \"<string>\",\n  \"title\": \"<string>\",\n  \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n  \"about\": \"<string>\",\n  \"salutation\": \"<string>\",\n  \"honorific\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_1\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_2\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_city\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_state\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_country\": \"<string>\",\n  \"custom_fields\": {},\n  \"translated_fields\": [\n    {\n      \"parent_field_internal_name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"translated_language\": \"<string>\",\n      \"value\": \"<unknown>\"\n    }\n  ]\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("PUT", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.put("https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}")
  .header("x-access-token", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"updated_at\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n  \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n  \"company\": \"<string>\",\n  \"title\": \"<string>\",\n  \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n  \"about\": \"<string>\",\n  \"salutation\": \"<string>\",\n  \"honorific\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_1\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_2\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_city\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_state\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_country\": \"<string>\",\n  \"custom_fields\": {},\n  \"translated_fields\": [\n    {\n      \"parent_field_internal_name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"translated_language\": \"<string>\",\n      \"value\": \"<unknown>\"\n    }\n  ]\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Put.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"updated_at\": \"2023-11-07T05:31:56Z\",\n  \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"[email protected]\",\n  \"company\": \"<string>\",\n  \"title\": \"<string>\",\n  \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n  \"about\": \"<string>\",\n  \"salutation\": \"<string>\",\n  \"honorific\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_1\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_line_2\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_city\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_state\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_postal_code\": \"<string>\",\n  \"address_country\": \"<string>\",\n  \"custom_fields\": {},\n  \"translated_fields\": [\n    {\n      \"parent_field_internal_name\": \"<string>\",\n      \"translated_language\": \"<string>\",\n      \"value\": \"<unknown>\"\n    }\n  ]\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

{
  "id": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
  "friendly_id": "SPK-42",
  "full_name": "Dr. Jane Smith",
  "first_name": "Jane",
  "last_name": "Smith",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "created_at": "2023-11-01T10:00:00Z",
  "updated_at": "2024-02-15T16:30:00Z",
  "photo_url": "https://cdn.sessionboard.com/photos/jane-smith.jpg",
  "company_name": "State University",
  "title": "Professor of Computer Science",
  "about": "Dr. Smith is a leading researcher in distributed systems.",
  "address_city": "Austin",
  "address_state": "TX",
  "address_country": "US",
  "honorific": "Dr.",
  "pronouns": "she/her",
  "topic_expertise": "Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing",
  "custom_fields": [],
  "translated_fields": []
}

Authorizations

x-access-token

string

header

required

Organization API token. Generate from Organization Settings → API Tokens.

Path Parameters

eventId

integer

required

The event ID.

contactId

string

required

The contact ID.

Body

application/json

updated_at

string<date-time>

Optional optimistic concurrency control. Send the updated_at value from the last-fetched contact.

first_name

string

last_name

string

string<email>

company

string

title

string

phone

string

about

string

Biography. HTML is allowed and stored as rich text.

salutation

string

honorific

string

address_line_1

string

address_line_2

string

address_city

string

address_state

string

address_postal_code

string

address_country

string

ISO 3166-1 numeric code (as GET returns), alpha-2 or alpha-3 code, or English country name. Stored and returned as the numeric code. An unknown value returns 400 naming the field and nothing is written.

custom_fields

object

Custom field values keyed by field internal name.

For number, currency, and percent fields, an empty string ("") clears the stored value — identical to sending null. 0 and "0" store an actual zero.

For checkbox fields, send boolean true or false. On read, a checked box serializes as the string "Yes", an explicitly unchecked one as "No", and a box that was never set as null.

Fields owned by an integration (for example swoogo_session_id, cvent_session_id, visit_session_id) are hydrated by the connector and reject writes with 400 FIELD_READ_ONLY, naming the field in details.field. Omit them from custom_fields.

translated_fields

object[]

Language variants to write using the same shape returned on reads. Omit this key on update to leave existing translations unchanged.

Show child attributes

Response

Contact updated

A contact (speaker, attendee, or organizational contact) in Sessionboard.

string

friendly_id

string

full_name

string

first_name

string

last_name

string

created_at

string

updated_at

string

photo_url

string

company_name

string

title

string

about

string

phone_home

string

phone_mobile

string

address_line_1

string

address_line_2

string

address_city

string

address_state

string

address_postal_code

string

address_country

string

website_url

string

linkedin_url

string

twitter_url

string

facebook_url

string

honorific

string

salutation

string

pronouns

string

gender

string

past_companies

string

educational_affiliation

string

highest_level_of_education

string

ethnicity

string

languages

string

speaker_score

string

organization_contact

string

speaker_fee

string

availability

string

preferred_session_format

string

annual_revenue

string

headcount

string

years_in_operation

string

organization_structure

string

industry

string

global_region

string

audience_type

string

target_age_range

string

topic_expertise

string

brand

string

translated_fields

object[]

Show child attributes

custom_fields

object[]

Show child attributes

admin_url

string<uri> | null

Deep link to this entity in the Sessionboard admin UI.

Overview

OAuth

Org — Events

Org — Log Export

Org — Awards

Event — Sessions

Event — Media

Event — Speakers

Event — Participants

Event — Contacts

Org — Contacts

Event — Sponsors

Event — Exhibitors

Event — Custom Fields

Event — Rooms

Event — Tracks

Event — Tags

Event — Formats

Event — Levels

Event — Languages

Event — Session Statuses

Event — Agenda Drafts

Event — Scheduling Rules

Event — Personas

Event — Ask

Event — Reports & SbQL

Org — Reports & SbQL

Event — Dashboards & Widgets

Event — Saved Reports

Convenience — Dashboards, Widgets & Reports

GDPR

Update a contact

Authorizations

Path Parameters

Body

Response