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The Google Contact API allows users to programmatically interact with the Google Contacts application, which is a web based contact management application by Google. Use this tag for programming questions related to using the Google Contacts API. General computing questions about using the Google Contacts web application is off topic for Stack Overflow.

Google contacts is a web application which allows users to save their contats. This data can be shared across a users devices. For questions related to the Web application please post on Web apps stack exchange as all Google contact related questions will likely be non programming related and there for off topic for Stack Overflow

Google Contacts API

The Google Contacts API allows client applications to view and update a user's contacts. Contacts are stored in the user's Google Account; most Google services have access to the contact list.

Your client application can use the Google Contacts API to create new contacts, edit or delete existing contacts, and query for contacts that match particular criteria

For questions related to the Google contacts api please use googlecontactsapi tag.

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get contact info from android contact picker

I'm trying to call the contact picker, get the persons name, phone and e-mail into strings and send them to another activity using an intent. So far this works: Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK, ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI); …
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Does Google expose "Find my Device" APIs?

Google has its "Find my Device" service allowing you to find your phone, make it ring (even when silenced), remotely wipe it, etc. by entering here: https://myaccount.google.com/find-your-phone What I would like to know is if there is an API…
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I keep getting an error that my app needs to be verified when either I or another user try to authorize with OAuth2. What does that mean?

I received this error when trying to authorize my app with my own account: Your project is trying to access scopes that need to go through the verification process. {invalid=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts} If you need to use one of these…
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Google Contacts API with Google JavaScript Client Lib

I am trying to work with the Google Contacts API v3. Because of the OAuth2 authentication and authorization I'm started with the Google APIs Client Library for JavaScript. I have no problems with that part of the API access. But after doing the…
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Is there a Hello World example for the Google Contacts API in Java, C#, Python or Ruby?

Question Can anyone point me to a step-by-step example which explains how to get started with the Google Contacts API and shows a complete working demo? Preferably in Java, but it can also be in C#, Python or Ruby. Goal All I want to do is to load…
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Android 3.0 - How to retrieve ALL contacts via ContactsContract

I am working on an Android Honeycomb (v3.0) application that has a requirement of displaying ALL contacts stored within the Google account that is registered on the device. One of the problems I am having is that I can only retrieve the contacts…
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With Google API Client, how to create client

I'm working to use the Google API Client: https://github.com/google/google-api-ruby-client Specifically, I want to access Google Contacts via the Google API client using the following google_contacts_api.rb:…
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Google Contacts API vs People API

I'm having a problem with the 2 APIs above. Given the next scenario: I have 2 different google accounts. One that doesn't use Google+ and a second account that uses Google+ When using Contacts API on the first account that doesn't use Google+ I can…
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Play store error: can't install app try again, and it still doesn't work, see common ways to fix the problem

Ive released a new app on the play store yesterday and it was published. However when I try to download and install it shows this error: can't install app X try again, and it still doesn't work, see common ways to fix the problem. I've tried to…
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Getting "If-Match or If-None-Match header or entry etag attribute required" errors when batch deleting contacts

I'm using the gdata Python library to do batched deletes of contacts, and I just get the "If-Match or If-None-Match header or entry etag attribute required" error. I think the problem started when I had to enable the Contacts API in the console…
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Export GMail Contacts via Unattended Script

GMail has a handy-dandy window that lets you export all of your contacts as a CSV file. If you do this then look at your browser's history, you see that the URL used to initiate the download looks something…
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Google API : Getting a Contacts Photo

I've been able to retrieve everything but the contacts photo by following the API. I can get the img url as well as the gd:etag from the xml returned. Below is the Google API example, and it is the same thing I get, with the value of the attributes…
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Download files to the Download folder on Android 11

This may be a stupid question, but I really need an answer to it. As far as I understand, starting with Android 10, the recommended way is to save files to the internal directory of the application, which the system allocates for it. In my…
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Pulling Gmail's 'Other Contacts' group via the Google Contacts API

I'm trying to pull my Gmail contacts, so I can auto-complete on the 3,000 or so contacts I have within Gmail. Using the Google Contacts Data API, I'm able to get a list of (1) default contacts and (2) groups. However, (1) the default contacts…
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Google API PHP Client - Contacts Service

I have, after hours of deep, deep pain, finally got a bit closer to the configuration and usage of Google's API PHP Client, using this tutorial (based on Analytics though). So, now I finally auth my self, in a way that seems legit and official. My…
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