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Started by Kane • Jul 29, 2025 11:37 AM

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Kane11:37 AM

Hey everyone, really weird issue that well, I think is an issue. Essentially, I'm building an app for a client whereby we are displaying a list of contacts for a given course (custom object), but those contacts are on registration objects, on a course. So essentially, I'm using the:

/crm/v3/objects/{$coursesObjectId}/search search endpoint to retrieve courses
/crm/v3/objects/${coursesObjectId}/{$courseId}/associations/{$registrationId} to get the registrations
/crm/v3/objects/contacts/{$contactId}?properties={$propertiesParam} to fetch the contacts (I'm doing this instead of the batch endpoint so I can have paging and not request entire blocks at once)

My problem is that for whatever reason, certain contact objects when I bring back attendee_image are file id's and others are the entire url (which is what I'm after) — why is this? It's such a pain, because now I have to add fallbacks to perform additional API requests via the files api to fetch the file url for the ones that are just returning id's.

Example:

{
    "id": "XXXXXXX",
    "properties": {
        "attendee_image": "189523727744",
        "createdate": "2025-03-21T20:10:27.456Z",
        "hs_object_id": "XXXXXXX",
        "lastmodifieddate": "2025-07-28T15:12:58.754Z"
    },
    "createdAt": "2025-03-21T20:10:27.456Z",
    "updatedAt": "2025-07-28T15:12:58.754Z",
    "archived": false
},
{
    "id": "XXXXXXX",
    "properties": {
        "attendee_image": "https://XXXXXXX.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/XXXXXXX/placeholder_image.png",
        "createdate": "2025-06-30T19:21:01.939Z",
        "hs_object_id": "XXXXXXX",
        "lastmodifieddate": "2025-07-28T17:32:06.771Z"
    },
    "createdAt": "2025-06-30T19:21:01.939Z",
    "updatedAt": "2025-07-28T17:32:06.771Z",
    "archived": false
}

If there's a more optimal way to achieve what I'm trying with the hubspot api's I'm all ears, but from what I've found working with hubspot's api's is you more often than not have to make so many separate calls just to piece together the final data structure you actually need. Thanks in advance 🙂

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Scott MarionReply 1Jul 29, 2025 11:57 AM

another option would be to build a UI Extension -- you would need Sales or Service Enterprise -- then you could take advantage of GraphQL which allows...

KaneReply 2Jul 29, 2025 12:03 PM

GraphQL would be an awesome option, you can even utilise that with cms-react too, but unfortunately HubSpot locks that down behind the highest of tier...