# Accessing custom fields via API v3

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/accessing-custom-fields-via-api-v3/23173>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** contacts\
**Created:** [July 21, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/accessing-custom-fields-via-api-v3/23173 "2020-07-21T12:45:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![iperez\_genius](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/iperez_genius/32/77566_2.png) [@iperez\_genius](https://community.hubspot.com/u/iperez_genius)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/accessing-custom-fields-via-api-v3/23173/1 "2020-07-21T12:45:58Z")

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I am a little confused as to how the custom fields of a specific object.

I can get the basics for a contact, Firstname, Lastname, Email but thats about it.

I can i get all the fields for an object and not jsut the default ones.

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**Author:** ![WendyGoh](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/wendygoh/32/42320_2.png) [@WendyGoh](https://community.hubspot.com/u/WendyGoh)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 8:14am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/accessing-custom-fields-via-api-v3/23173/2 "2020-07-22T08:14:13Z")

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Hey [@iperez\_genius](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/139369),

Just to make sure that we’re on the same page, are you referring to the [CRM API | Contacts](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/crm/contacts) → specifically the **GET**  **/crm/v3/objects/contacts**?

If so, when looking to include other custom properties on the response body, you’d need to include the `properties` query parameters i.e.

crm/v3/objects/contacts? **properties=phone**

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**Author:** ![iperez\_genius](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/iperez_genius/32/77566_2.png) [@iperez\_genius](https://community.hubspot.com/u/iperez_genius)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2020, 11:02am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/accessing-custom-fields-via-api-v3/23173/3 "2020-07-22T11:02:36Z")

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and there is no way to get all custom fields without specifing them

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**Author:** ![WendyGoh](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/wendygoh/32/42320_2.png) [@WendyGoh](https://community.hubspot.com/u/WendyGoh)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 2:39am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/accessing-custom-fields-via-api-v3/23173/4 "2020-07-23T02:39:18Z")

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Hey [@iperez\_genius](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/139369),

Currently, this is not possible.

If you’d like to return any custom properties, you’d need to specific them on the query parameters.

Additionally, you can retrieve object properties via this API: [CRM API | Properties](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/crm/properties).

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**Author:** ![GBersac8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/53a042/32.png) [@GBersac8](https://community.hubspot.com/u/GBersac8)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2022, 2:56pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/accessing-custom-fields-via-api-v3/23173/5 "2022-09-06T14:56:32Z")

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Thank you, the doc imply that properties should be in the body, not in query params which confused me: [Accounts Dashboard | HubSpot](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/crm/crm-custom-objects)