topic Re: Retrieve specific user's contacts permissions in APIs & Integrations

Retrieve specific user's contacts permissions

HWimalasiri — Mon, 26 May 2025 05:33:19 GMT

I followed

https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/guides/api/settings/users/public-permissions documentation for retrieving a contact's permitted user lists according to the create, delete, and update options. But I want to retrieve a contact's permissions for only one user.

I followed this https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/guides/api/settings/users/public-permissions documentation, But I have to load all contacts for filter specific user's contacts permissions. This took too much time for me. Is there any direct solutions for Retrieve specific user's contacts permissions?

Re: Retrieve specific user's contacts permissions

BérangèreL — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:59:40 GMT

Hi @HWimalasiri and welcome, we are delighted to see you here!

Great question, thanks for asking the HubSpot Community!

I am glad to see that you already explored the permission endpoints for that, thanks!

I'd love to ask our Top Experts: Hi @sylvain_tirreau, @Anton and @zach_threadint do you have a workaround or a way to help @HWimalasiri for a specific user, please?

Have a lovely day and thanks so much in advance for your valuable contributions!
Bérangère

Re: Retrieve specific user's contacts permissions

sylvain_tirreau — Tue, 27 May 2025 07:13:17 GMT

As the documentation you mention says, you give the id of the object you want to retrieve at the end of hcrn (resourceId).

hcrn:{accountId}:{resourceType}:{resourceTypeId}:{resourceId}

Examples with portail 999999:

If you want to recover a contact's permissions for contact id 123456:
hcrn:999999:crm-object:0-1:123456

If you want to retrieve a user's permissions for user id 654321:
hcrn:999999:crm-object:0-115:654321

Re: Retrieve specific user's contacts permissions

HWimalasiri — Tue, 27 May 2025 07:40:30 GMT

Yes @sylvain_tirreau . I also tried that parameter you mentioned here.

But it shows the "Object type id 0-115 is not supported" message to me.

Re: Retrieve specific user's contacts permissions

sylvain_tirreau — Tue, 27 May 2025 09:06:47 GMT

Yes, that's normal. Sorry to have misled you.
You can only retrieve users for a contact (deal, ticket, company) with this API. Nothing else.

But you can build a helper like that (my example is in Python) :

def get_user_permissions(data: dict, user_id: int) -> dict: user_perms = {} resources = data.get("resources", {}) for resource_id, actions in resources.items(): perms = [] for action_name, info in actions.items(): if user_id in info.get("permittedUsers", []): perms.append(action_name) if perms: user_perms[resource_id] = perms return user_perms

This way you pass the result (I took the response code from the documentation page) of your query (hcrn:999999:crm-object:0-1:123456) into the function:

user_id = 2620022 perms = get_user_permissions(hubspot_response, user_id) print(perms)

And you'll have something like that:

# {'hcrn:123456:crm-object:0-1:64151': ['crm-object:COMMUNICATE', # 'crm-object:EDIT', # 'crm-object:VIEW', # 'crm-object:DELETE']}