Get contact
One contact with phone, email, status, tags and custom fields.
MCP tool podium_read → get_contact
read
Returns one contact with the fields Podium shows on its profile: name, phone, email, status, tags and the custom fields an admin set up under Settings. Reading does not change the contact.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| contact_id string required | string | Contact ID from list_contacts. |
tools/call
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": 1,
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"name": "podium_read",
"arguments": {
"operation": "get_contact",
"arguments": {
"contact_id": "contact_8c41d2"
}
}
}
}Example response
{
"content": [
{
"type": "text",
"text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
}
],
"structuredContent": {
"contact_id": "ct_4410",
"name": "Priya Nair",
"phone": "+15555550142",
"email": "priya@example.com",
"status": "active",
"tags": [
"cleaning"
],
"custom_fields": {
"next_visit": "2026-11-05"
}
},
"isError": false
}