Not able to pull all the contacts exposed via Microsoft graph for outlook account

Question

I have started integrating our code base to use Microsoft graph API, to read the contacts of outlook account as part of a new feature where the user can cherry pick the contacts available so that they can be imported.

For the account I am testing there are a total of 19 contacts available, but when I make the api call, I see only 10 contacts in total ( for sure this is not related to any paging ). Not really sure what is wrong with the contacts which I am not able to pull.

End point - https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/contacts

Scope - https://graph.microsoft.com/contacts.read

Fields -$select=givenName,middleName,surname,emailAddresses,mobilePhone,homeAddress,homePhones Order By - $orderby=displayName asc

Wondering if any one ran into the issue, where they are not able to pull all the contacts available for the specific account. It would be great if anyone has any pointers for the issue that I am running into.

Are they all stored in a single Contact Folder? – Marc LaFleur Apr 23 '18 at 16:14 — Marc LaFleur, Apr 23 '18 at 16:14
@MarcLaFleur They are stored in multiple folders. – Sushanth -- Apr 23 '18 at 18:44 — Sushanth --, Apr 23 '18 at 18:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '18 at 19:47

The /me/contacts endpoint will only return contacts in the mailbox's default Contacts folder.

In order to retrieve Contacts from other folders, you first need to retrieve the list of available folders using /me/contactFolders. You can then retrieve the Contacts from each of the available folders.

For example, if we had 3 contact folders: folder1, folder2, and folder3 then you could make three separate calls to retrieve all of the contacts:

GET /me/contactfolders/folder1/contacts
GET /me/contactfolders/folder2/contacts
GET /me/contactfolders/folder3/contacts

Thank you for the suggestion. That solved the problem for my use case. — Sushanth --, Apr 27 '18 at 19:04

Not able to pull all the contacts exposed via Microsoft graph for outlook account

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