# Get Contact from Custom Field

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-contact-from-custom-field/13522>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** contacts\
**Created:** [March 15, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-contact-from-custom-field/13522 "2019-03-15T09:26:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Deadeye](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/deadeye/32/78108_2.png) [@Deadeye](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Deadeye)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 9:26am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-contact-from-custom-field/13522/1 "2019-03-15T09:26:40Z")

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Is it possible to get a contact from a new field I created and imported into using the standard import tool or am I limited to finding a contact by email?

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**Author:** ![IsaacTakushi](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/isaactakushi/32/70387_2.png) [@IsaacTakushi](https://community.hubspot.com/u/IsaacTakushi)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-contact-from-custom-field/13522/2 "2019-03-18T13:18:22Z")

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Hi, @Deadeye.

Apologies for the delayed response! Thanks so much for posting this separately.

Are you wishing to [search for and retrieve](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/get_contact_by_email-0) contact records by properties other than `email`?

If so, this isn’t _directly_ possible through a `GET` endpoint like [this](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/get_contact_by_email-0) or [this](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/get_batch_by_email), but if you have access to lists, there is an alternative solution:

You can [create an active list](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/articles/kcs_article/lists/create-active-or-static-lists) in the UI containing contacts with the values you desire and then retrieve the contacts in that list with [this endpoint](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/lists/get_list_contacts).

This still doesn’t allow you to truly “search” for a specific contact with a value, though, so I recommend upvoting and commenting on [this feature request](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/Search-contacts-companies-and-deals-by-custom-properties/idi-p/11081) with your use case. I’ve previously upvoted the idea, and the more votes it gets, the more likely our product teams will consider building it in the future.

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**Author:** ![Deadeye](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/deadeye/32/78108_2.png) [@Deadeye](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Deadeye)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/get-contact-from-custom-field/13522/3 "2019-03-18T14:09:23Z")

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Thanks Isaac

I’ve Upvoted.