.NET client for the Google People API

Question

I do not see a .NET client for the Google People API here.

https://code.google.com/p/google-api-dotnet-client/wiki/APIs

Do you know of any?

I need to get the user's full name, email address, gender and date of birth from Google using OAuth2. I could use it the raw HTTP way, but just to be safe, I want to use a Google provided client API.

Update

Hurray to hand-plumbing

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 20 '14 at 15:51

All the APIs are available here: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/dotnet/apis/

I'm pretty sure that one of the following APIs will make your life easier: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/dotnet/apis/plus/v1 or https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/dotnet/apis/oauth2/v2

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 21 '14 at 07:12

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The Google .net client Library can be found on NuGet, the plus package is here Google.Apis.Plus.v1 Client Library

PM> Install-Package Google.Apis.Plus.v1

I'm pretty sure it requires the latest version of Nugget to get it.

But I think you are going to have a small problem. Not all of the information you are after is exposed in the API. Sex and date of birth for example.

You can try it here People.Get. Scroll to the bottom: Authorize it then in userId enter "me" and it will show what the API can get of your data.

answered May 21 '14 at 07:12

Linda Lawton - DaImTo

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Hi @DalmTo, I read your website, too, in the process. Nice. :-) And thank you. I am using hand-plumbing now. You're right about the Plus API. I am going to use raw HTTP requests to People.get. – Water Cooler v2 May 21 '14 at 09:51
raw http requests to get data is doable but can get scary, if you have to deal with OAuth. The client lib makes it easer. – Linda Lawton - DaImTo May 21 '14 at 09:54
I understand that. I am taking my chances. I'd like to fall and learn, if I have to. :-) – Water Cooler v2 May 21 '14 at 10:40
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I do the exact same thing I always start with the Raw HTTP requests then move on using the API its the only way to really know how it works. Good luck – Linda Lawton - DaImTo May 21 '14 at 10:41

.NET client for the Google People API

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