Questions tagged [google-people-api]

The People API lets you list and manage the authenticated user's Contacts and retrieve profile information for authenticated users and their contacts.

The people information that the People API retrieves is merged from various sources, depending on the following conditions:

  • Public Google profile data Always.
  • Google Apps domain profile data The domain admin has enabled external contact and profile sharing of domain-scoped data.
  • The authenticated user's private profile information One of the profile scopes has been granted.
  • The authenticated user's contacts The contacts scope has been granted.
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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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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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Do the Google+ profile picture URLs returned by the Google API change?

So, I'm using the Google API to fetch people's profile picture using their user_id. The Google API returns a JSON like following: { image: { url:…
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people.connections.list not returning contacts using Python Client Library

I'm trying to programmatically access the list of contacts on my own personal Google Account using the Python Client Library This is a script that will run on a server without user input, so I have it set up to use credentials from a Service Account…
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How to specify the scope of Google API to get the birthday

I am trying to get the birthday from the Google API, but the retrieved data in HWIOAuthBundle do not contain it. I am wondering if the specified scope for google plus api in config.yml is correct or not! If not, please give a link or the corrected…
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Access google connections using google people API

I would like to fetch all the google private connections of a user signed in from my app. I've enabled the Google People and the Google Plus API's. I set up the credentials API key, client id & client secret. The url with which I'm trying to fetch…
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How to search contact using Google People API

I am using google people API.For that I am using java client library. I can do list,add,update,get contacts,But I can't search the contact by using people API.For example If I want to fetch the contacts by phone number start with (+919500) or Name…
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How to uniquely identity a Person resource in Google People API response from a particular user?

Google People API, unlike Google Plus API doesn't provide an unique id for each Person resource in the response. Why has this been deprecated/removed and how to uniquely identify a Person in an user's contacts list without an id?
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Can the Google People API retrieve frequent contacts?

When I make requests I do not get frequent contacts, just saved. I understand this technically "is working correctly" but the google Contacts API documentation (which does show frequent contacts) states: Note: For read-only access to users'…
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Google People API cannot get birthday year

this is my first question in stackoverflow. I have a problem with Google People API when I'm trying to get user birthday year. Here's the log from my logcat. D/FitPartners:…
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Why can't I retrieve emails addresses and phone numbers with Google People API?

I want to retrieve my contacts names, email address and phone numbers using the Google People API and I'm using their Try it! tool to test the API. The names are being retrieved but not the emails addresses and phone numbers. I think I'm doing…
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How to migrate from GoogleCredential to GoogleCredentials and still get access to People API?

Background For an app I'm working on, which uses People API using credentials (user login). Once the user gives the credentials, I can access various Google APIs, such as People API. An example is one to get a list of…
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Option to get the contact entries updated after a specific time NOT given in Google People API

We use Google Contacts API to get contact entries that are updated after a specific time to keep an updated copy of the contacts on our end. In Google Contacts API, there is an option to get the contact entries updated after a specific time using…
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Any way to bypass Etag check in People API?

Google Contacts allows us to bypass Etag verification by passing * instead of the contact's current Etag for Edit/Delete requests. Google Contacts API documentation Note: The special Etag value * can be used to bypass this verification and process…
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Can't read phone numbers from user's google profile using - auth/user.phonenumbers.read scope

Based on the documentation of Google People API I am using profile scope - https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.phonenumbers.read and PersonFields=phoneNumbers to read the authenticated user's phone numbers only in their Google profile (none from…
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