Add existing contacts to a list 500 Internal Error with Private Apps (HubSpot API v1)

[Ez4]

Hi i’m getting 500 Internal error response when trying to use Add existing contacts to a list endpoint (https://legacydocs.hubspot.com/docs/methods/lists/add_contact_to_list) with Private Apps (access token in Authorization header with Bearer prefix).

My Curl request:

curl --location 'https://api.hubapi.com/contacts/v1/lists/290/add' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer xxx' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
"vids": [
470151
]
}'

Failes with response:

{"status":"error","message":"internal error","correlationId":"42a9c2e5-adb3-446e-8867-b6eb80cbc04e"}

I have checked both list id and contact id (VID).

And by request:

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.hubapi.com/contacts/v1/lists/290' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer xxx' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json'

Responsds with 200 code and date:

{
 "listId": 290,
 "listType": "DYNAMIC",
 ...
}

I also double-checked contact id:

curl --location 'https://api.hubapi.com/contacts/v1/contact/' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer xxx' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
 "properties": [
 {
 "property": "email",
 "value": "nezort11@gmail.com"
 }
 ]
}'

Responds with all data about the contact:

{
 "message": "Contact already exists",
 "identityProfile": {
 "vid": 470151,
 "identity": [
 {
 "value": "6d0ce99e-af7b-4bb4-9800-72d804f85116",
 "type": "LEAD_GUID",
 "timestamp": 1679291550881
 },
 {
 "value": "zorinegor325@gmail.com",
 "type": "EMAIL",
 "timestamp": 1679317994583,
 "isSecondary": true
 },
 {
 "value": "nezort11@gmail.com",
 "type": "EMAIL",
 "timestamp": 1679401144147,
 "isPrimary": true
 },
 ]
 }
}

I also checked it with other emails, and i still get this error:

I can only guess this might be because you migrated from API keys to Private Apps, because i see a lot of working code with api keys on Github.

[Jaycee_Lewis]

Hi, @Ez4. I see the issue. Your examples included the following:

"listType": "DYNAMIC"

This is the roadblock.

You cannot add Contacts to an Active list. They are “allowed” or “removed” from an Active List (dynamic) via the filter options.

From the documentation:

“Please note that you cannot manually add contacts to dynamic lists. To determine whether a list is dynamic or static, when you get a list, you will see a flag called dynamic that equates to true or false.”

I hope this helps get you moving forward.

Best,

Jaycee