Get an event contact
curl --request GET \
--url https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId} \
--header 'x-access-token: <api-key>'import requests
url = "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}"
headers = {"x-access-token": "<api-key>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'x-access-token': '<api-key>'}};
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 => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"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"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "<api-key>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}")
.header("x-access-token", "<api-key>")
.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::Get.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = '<api-key>'
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": []
}Event — Contacts
Get an event contact
Retrieve a single contact by ID at the event level.
GET
/
v1
/
event
/
{eventId}
/
contacts
/
{contactId}
Get an event contact
curl --request GET \
--url https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId} \
--header 'x-access-token: <api-key>'import requests
url = "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}"
headers = {"x-access-token": "<api-key>"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
print(response.text)const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {'x-access-token': '<api-key>'}};
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 => "GET",
CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
"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"
"net/http"
"io"
)
func main() {
url := "https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
req.Header.Add("x-access-token", "<api-key>")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://public-api.sessionboard.com/v1/event/{eventId}/contacts/{contactId}")
.header("x-access-token", "<api-key>")
.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::Get.new(url)
request["x-access-token"] = '<api-key>'
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
ApiKeyBearerToken
Organization API token. Generate from Organization Settings → API Tokens.
Query Parameters
Expand records with additional data.
Possible values:
translated_fields— includes thetranslated_fieldsarray on records when the event has language variants configured.subsession_details— applies to session responses. Each subsession insideparent.subsessions[]is returned with full parent-session field parity (status,custom_status,custom_fields,chairpersons,moderators,sponsors,exhibitors,tags,language,track,level,room,is_public,external_url,client_session_id,ceu_credits,capacity,source) instead of the default minimal shape. Subsessions inheritis_abstract,composition_status, and optionalcompositionfrom the parent. Not required when callingGET /v1/event/{eventId}/sessions/{sessionId}with a subsession UUID — that endpoint always returns the full shape at the top level.linked_sources— include sessions that are linked as composition sources (excluded from list/search results by default).composition— attach a fullcompositionobject with target and source details on each returned session. Recommended for single-session GET; use cautiously on broad searches.
A single value can be passed directly, and multiple values repeat the parameter — all of these are accepted:
?expand=composition?expand=translated_fields&expand=composition?expand[]=translated_fields&expand[]=composition
Available options:
translated_fields, subsession_details, linked_sources, composition Response
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A contact (speaker, attendee, or organizational contact) in Sessionboard.
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Deep link to this entity in the Sessionboard admin UI.

