API Search by Custom Field

[BrettW2]

Hello,

I want to do an API search for a contact using  the custom field 1.  Currently I use the following call to search for a contact using their email address:

https://api.constantcontact.com/ws/customers/{username}/contacts?email={email-address}

so thinking by just replacing 'email' with 'custom_field_1' the call would seach the custom field 1.  That happens not to be the case.  I do get a reponse back with a record but it's not the record that I was looking for.  Any help or suggestions would be great.

Thank you

[Nick_G]

Hey Brett,

Our API search function currently only works with email and last updated date. Right now, anything further than that would require a custom script to parse and search through all the results of a GET to each contact. I understand how this function could be useful, so I'll be sure to bring this up to the development team as an idea to implement.