# Retrieving modified information from a contact **URL:** \ **Category:** APIs & Integrations\ **Tags:** contacts\ **Created:** [October 4, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/retrieving-modified-information-from-a-contact/11243 "2018-10-04T12:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![system](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/system/32/124_2.png) [@system](https://community.hubspot.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2018, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/retrieving-modified-information-from-a-contact/11243/1 "2018-10-04T12:53:16Z")
Hello, I need to synchronize some information contained in HubSpot with an external database. I plan to use “Get recently updated and created contacts” from the Contacts API The results of the API contain all the contact information. I would like to do the synchronization incrementally: Is it possible with the API to retrieve only the modified information of a contact? Thanks ---
**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:** [October 4, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/retrieving-modified-information-from-a-contact/11243/2 "2018-10-04T15:51:11Z")
Hi [@Olivier\_NK1](https://community.hubspot.com/u/olivier_nk1), At this time, it’s not possible to get _only_ the modified properties of a contact record. Derek responds to a similar query in [this topic](https://integrate.hubspot.com/t/only-pull-changes-for-each-day-for-each-api/11071). If you’re using an OAuth app, you could also leverage the [Webhooks API](https://developers.hubspot.com/docs/methods/webhooks/webhooks-overview) to receive notifications of updates to specific contact properties you’re interested in.