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Microsoft Outlook Email ACTION

Find Contacts

Search and list contacts in the authenticated user's Outlook contacts. Returns { count, contacts } where count is the Graph-reported total contact count (@odata.count) and contacts is the filtered result array. Omit searchString to return all contacts up to maxResults. When searchString is provided, filters contacts by displayName, givenName, surname, or email address (case-sensitive substring match). Important: maxResults now bounds how many contacts are fetched from Graph before filtering — contacts beyond that window will not be searched. Example: find-contacts(searchString="George Costanza", maxResults=200) → scans the first 200 contacts and returns matches. Example: find-contacts(searchString="george@vandelay.com") → matches by email address. Use the returned contact id with Save Contact to update the contact. See the documentation
  • Action
  • Read only
  • OAuth
  • SDK
  • MCP

IMPLEMENTATION

Call this tool

Connect a user's Microsoft Outlook Email account once, then configure and run Find Contacts from your backend or agent.

import { PipedreamClient } from "@pipedream/sdk"

const pd = new PipedreamClient({
  projectId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_PROJECT_ID!,
  clientId: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_ID!,
  clientSecret: process.env.PIPEDREAM_CLIENT_SECRET!,
  projectEnvironment: "production",
})

const result = await pd.actions.run({
  id: "microsoft_outlook-find-contacts",
  externalUserId: "{external_user_id}", // any stable ID for this user in your system
  configuredProps: {
    microsoft_outlook: { authProvisionId: "apn_xxxxxxx" },
    searchString: "Search String",
    maxResults: 10,
  },
})

console.log(result)

SCHEMA

Inputs

Pipedream supplies the connected account. Your application provides the operation-specific values below. Dynamic inputs are resolved against that user's account.

Find Contacts inputs
Property Type Description
searchString Search String string
Optional case-sensitive substring to match against displayName, givenName, surname, or email address. Omit to return all contacts up to maxResults.
Optional
maxResults Max Results integer
Maximum number of contacts to fetch from Graph before applying the client-side filter. Contacts beyond this window will not be searched.
Optional

REFERENCE

Tool details

Behavior hints are published with the component in the Pipedream registry and surface as MCP tool annotations, so an agent can reason about a tool before it calls it.

Registry key
microsoft_outlook-find-contacts
Version
1.0.2
App
Microsoft Outlook Email
Authentication
OAuth
Read-only
Yes
Destructive
No
Open world
Yes