Google Contacts API v3: how to use full text query?

Question

I cannot seem to get a search of Google Contacts using a query parameter to work.

I can successfully authenticate the user, get a list of Contacts Groups, and get a list of contacts within a group, but cannot get a search to work.

From the documentation, I'd assume that my URI would have to look something like this to do a search for "tracy" in the default user's contacts (assuming I've already been authenticated via OAuth2):

https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/default/full?q=tracy

However, I get a "Bad Request" response (_rc = 400)

I suppose that I could download all the contacts and then do the search myself, but I can't imagine there's no way for GOOGLE(!) to do this search on the server.

Any help greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Foo L · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-08T07:48:14.023

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I ran into a similar problem with the q parameter being ignored. I had to add version parameter, v=3.0, for the q to be recognized as illustrated by this post.

Your full URL should be:

https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?q=tracy&v=3.0

Note the corrected URL as mentioned by Blake O.

For my use, I also added the access_token parameter that I get after gapi.auth.authorize from the Google API Client JS library

edited Aug 08 '14 at 07:48

answered Aug 07 '14 at 22:19

Foo L

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Is it required to add version even If I use Java library of contact api 3.0 ?? – Rams Dec 17 '15 at 06:07
Hmm, I don't know. I haven't used the Java library. Can you report your results here? TIA – Foo L Dec 17 '15 at 08:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 21 '14 at 16:59

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Bad URL.

www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?q=tracy

answered Jul 21 '14 at 16:59

Blake O'Hare

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DOH! you're right. i figured this out myself sometime ago. it's crazy how many times one can look at code and JUST.NOT.SEE.ERRORS. thanks! – threecee Aug 08 '14 at 03:37

Google Contacts API v3: how to use full text query?

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