# issues running example contact search query

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/issues-running-example-contact-search-query/24720>\
**Category:** APIs & Integrations\
**Tags:** developer-tools\
**Created:** [August 27, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/issues-running-example-contact-search-query/24720 "2020-08-27T20:15:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![mizerlou](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/mizerlou/32/41549_2.png) [@mizerlou](https://community.hubspot.com/u/mizerlou)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/issues-running-example-contact-search-query/24720/1 "2020-08-27T20:15:25Z")

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hi. i’m using the docs here: [Accounts Dashboard | HubSpot](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/api/crm/contacts) specifically i’m attempting to do a contact search. i used the doc tool to create a curl the command. the command looks like:

curl --request POST \  
--url ‘[https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/search?hapikey=\<redacted](https://api.hubapi.com/crm/v3/objects/contacts/search?hapikey=%3Credacted)\>’ \  
--header ‘content-type: application/json’ \  
--data ‘{  
“filterGroups”: [  
{  
“filters”: [  
{  
“value”: “[pete@example.com](mailto:pete@example.com)”,  
“propertyName”: “Email”,  
“operator”: “EQ”  
}  
]  
}  
],  
“sorts”: [  
“vid”  
],  
“properties”: [  
“vid”  
],  
“limit”: 1,  
“after”: 0  
}’

and this fails with:

{“status”:“error”,“message”:“There was a problem with the request.”,“correlationId”:“cde96cb7-ff08-4143-bd02-2916675e8fb2”}

what am i doing wrong?

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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:** [August 31, 2020, 3:45am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/issues-running-example-contact-search-query/24720/2 "2020-08-31T03:45:57Z")

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Hey @mizerlou,

I believe this is likely because the internal property name for Email is `email` and not `Email`.

As such, could you try the following POST body in which I changed `Email` to `email` and it should return a 200 response.

```lia-code-sample
{
"filterGroups": [
{
"filters": [
{
"value": "pete@example.com",
"propertyName": "email",
"operator": "EQ"
}
]
}
],
"sorts": [
"vid"
],
"properties": [
"vid"
],
"limit": 1,
"after": 0
}

```

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**Author:** ![mizerlou](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/mizerlou/32/41549_2.png) [@mizerlou](https://community.hubspot.com/u/mizerlou)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:33am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/issues-running-example-contact-search-query/24720/3 "2020-08-31T08:33:38Z")

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thanks, that fixed my problem.