Navigator: contacts property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
Check the Browser compatibility table carefully before using this in production.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

The contacts read-only property of the Navigator interface returns a ContactsManager interface which allows users to select entries from their contact list and share limited details of the selected entries with a website or application.

Value

A ContactsManager object. Two successive calls return the same object.

Examples

The following code checks whether the Contact Picker API is supported.

js
const supported = "contacts" in navigator && "ContactsManager" in window;

Specifications

Specification
Contact Picker API
# dom-navigator-contacts

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also