# Hubspot API functionality Using Contact API

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/hubspot-api-functionality-using-contact-api/11425>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** contacts\
**Created:** [December 10, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/hubspot-api-functionality-using-contact-api/11425 "2018-12-10T22:07:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mclayton](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/mclayton/32/34870_2.png) [@mclayton](https://community.hubspot.com/u/mclayton)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2018, 10:07pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/hubspot-api-functionality-using-contact-api/11425/1 "2018-12-10T22:07:26Z")

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Is each request a single Contact record?  
Is it possible to send multiple records per request?

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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:** [December 11, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/hubspot-api-functionality-using-contact-api/11425/2 "2018-12-11T13:31:58Z")

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Hi, @mclayton.

It depends which endpoint you’re using:

- You can create a single contact with [this endpoint](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/create_contact) or retrieve a single contact with [this endpoint](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/get_contact).
- Alternatively, you can create or update up to 1,000 contacts with [this endpoint](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/batch_create_or_update) (though we recommend limiting each request to 100 contacts) or retrieve up to 100 contacts by email with [this endpoint](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/contacts/get_batch_by_email).

There are other endpoints as well, so let me know if you have questions about one of those.