Questions tagged [google-contacts-api]

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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Google contacts api (gdata) syncs low resolution photos

I'm using google contacts api (gdata) to set a contact's photo in google contacts. I'm using fiddler and I see that the request is sent according to Google Contacts Examples but the photo downloaded back from google is always 96x96. The code I'm…
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google oauth2 id_token vs refresh_token

I'm trying to use Google OAuth2 to get user's contact info. I'm not struggling with getting accesses, I am wondering that for some reason I've stopped getting refresh_token instead I get id_token (long JWT string). I use python urllib to retrieve…
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How to interact with Google Contacts using XML and HTTP?

I am trying to understand this document. But I am not getting how to implement it in my previous code which I did according to this link . Can anyone provide me sample code to proceed with. I am not getting how to use these XML entries.
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Google Contact API v3 : q parameter is ignored if search in a contact group

I am working with Google Contact API v3. The goal is to synchronize contacts between my DB and a Google Account. My problem is : 1) when I search contact by email address without a contact group, I get one good result Here is the query…
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how to query the rawcontacts ,excluding from the list of "not assigned" to any group in android

I'm backing up and restoring my contacts, I want to query only those contacts, which the user sees in the contacts default application list. I'm using samsung duos, there is a group name called "Not assigned" in groups tab in default(samsung)…
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How to set Google API response to json

I am using Google Contact API which sends contact details in XML format, Is there any way to get the same response in JSON format. My request URL : https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?format=json This is how I am trying now but…
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trying to access google contacts api using cors getting No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource

I am trying to access data from google contacts api using cors. i can do this on the o auth 2.0 playground but when i try and do it from my app it gives the follwoing error messages in the console of google chrome. 405 method not allowed and No…
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How to have a read access to google.com/contacts from an android handset?

In my android application, I would like to retrieve the birthday field from google.com/contacts, as this field isn't synchronised in the android contacts application. How can I have a read access to google contacts ? I saw the Google contacts APIs,…
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How do you use query parameters to limit retrieved contacts in the Google Contacts API

I'm trying to test out the Google Contacts API with JavaScript. I know that V1 had support for JavaScript but V2 and V3 don't list it. However, I have been able to find a way to retrieve contacts through an AJAX request so getting the contacts…
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Using google plus API is it possible to fetch gmail contacts

In my application I want to fetch my gmail contacts. In my app I have already integrated "Google+ API" So i just need to know that can i access my gmail contact by using the same API. Or I need to integrate Gmail API. Please help me I am new to this…
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Google Spreadsheet to add and edit/update Gmail Contacts

Some Background: (I wish I had more rep to flesh this out, as I would like to post images and links to my research). I am using the Awesome Tables gadget on our company Intranet Portal (on Google Sites) for phone directories, page navigation, serial…
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Getting 401 response when connecting to Google via OAuth2, Ruby

I'm trying to access all the contacts from Google Contacts for invite purposes from my site. So I'm using OAuth2 but when I first request I get a 401 error with access_token. :( Keep in mind I'm working local!! Here's my code. def authenticate …
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Call to Google feeds/contacts/ does not return groupMembershipInfo on some accounts

On a newly-created Google account, when I make a call to https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?v=3.0&alt=json , in part of the response I receive an array called 'gContact$groupMembershipInfo', which tells me what groups a certain…
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Google Contact Api PHP - Server Account (server to server): Empty contacts array

When I use "this solution" I get a blank contacts array. I'm using "google-api-php-client-0.6.7" with a serviceAccount.php into the examples/contacts folder, and a Google_ContactsService into src/contrib folder. I have configured the Google Apis…
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No Authentication Header Found

We are using Google Contacts API for past few years. Everything seems to be working fine until today..Suddenly all the Contacts API started throwing error "No Authentication Header Found" inspite of passing the correct token to the header. Here is…