Get Contact Lists

Retrieves all contact lists for the team, with optional name filtering.

GET /contacts/lists

Get Contact Lists

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.lemlist.com/api/contacts/lists \
  --header 'Authorization: Basic <encoded-value>'

200

[
  {
    "_id": "clt_abc123def456ghi78",
    "name": "Nurturing",
    "dynamic": false
  },
  {
    "_id": "clt_xyz789uvw012rst34",
    "name": "Enterprise Prospects",
    "dynamic": true
  }
]

Returns all static and dynamic contact lists. Use the search parameter to filter lists by name.

List IDs (clt_xxx) can be used with:

• GET /contacts — filter contacts by list via the listId query parameter
• POST /contacts/lists/{listId}/entities — add contacts to a list

Authorizations

Authorization · string · header · required

Basic authentication header of the form Basic <encoded-value>, where <encoded-value> is the base64-encoded string username:password.

Query Parameters

search · string

Filter lists by name (case-insensitive partial match).

Response

200

application/json

Success

_id · string

Unique list ID (clt_xxx format)

name · string

Name of the contact list

dynamic · boolean

Whether the list is dynamic (auto-populated by filters) or static (manually managed)