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# List contacts

> Contacts of one list with status, tags and dates, filtered by status, tag, segment or email address. Input schema, a tools/call example and an example result.

Source: https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/emailoctopus/list_contacts

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Contacts of one list with status, tags and dates, filtered by status, tag, segment or email address.

EmailOctopus MCP tools: https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/emailoctopus.md

MCP tool: `emailoctopus_read → list_contacts`

Access: read.

Lists the contacts of one list, 50 to a page by default; pass next_cursor back as cursor for the next page. status picks the subscribed, pending or unsubscribed filter of the contacts page. tag and segment filter the way the Tags and Segment drop-downs do, and search matches an email address. The response also returns total, the number of contacts that match the filters. added is when the contact joined the list, last_changed when it was last edited.

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `list_id` | string | yes | List ID from list_lists. |
| `status` | enum | no | subscribed, pending or unsubscribed. Default: all three. |
| `tag` | string | no | Only contacts with this tag. |
| `segment` | string | no | Name of a segment from list_segments. |
| `search` | string | no | Email address to look for. |
| `cursor` | string | no | next_cursor from the previous call. |

## tools/call

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "emailoctopus_read",
    "arguments": {
      "operation": "list_contacts",
      "arguments": {
        "list_id": "list_8c41d2"
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Example response

```json
{
  "content": [
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
    }
  ],
  "structuredContent": {
    "total": 212,
    "contacts": [
      {
        "contact_id": "e3ab8c80-5f65-11ed-835e-030e4bb63150",
        "email_address": "sam@example.com",
        "first_name": "Sam",
        "last_name": "Reed",
        "tags": [
          "customer"
        ],
        "status": "subscribed",
        "added": "2025-03-04T10:12:00Z",
        "last_changed": "2025-03-04T10:12:00Z"
      },
      {
        "contact_id": "f1c2d3e4-6a7b-11ed-9c8d-0242ac120002",
        "email_address": "lena@example.org",
        "first_name": "Lena",
        "last_name": "Novak",
        "tags": [],
        "status": "subscribed",
        "added": "2025-04-18T16:40:00Z",
        "last_changed": "2025-06-02T09:05:00Z"
      }
    ],
    "next_cursor": "2"
  },
  "isError": false
}
```

Previous: [List lists](https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/emailoctopus/list_lists.md)
Next: [List segments](https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/emailoctopus/list_segments.md)

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