I need to get contacts emails with Google People API, but can't find a way to do it in docs. Currently I'm making the following request:
request.get('',
function (error, response, body) {
console.log(body);
});
And getting the following responce (I pin only the part of it, for example):
{
"resourceName": "people/c1705421824339784415",
"etag": "328OLZwdaiQ=",
"metadata": {
"sources": [
{
"type": "CONTACT",
"id": "17aae01d0ff8b2df",
"etag": "#328OLZwdaiQ="
}
],
"objectType": "PERSON"
},
"names": [
{
"metadata": {
"primary": true,
"source": {
"type": "CONTACT",
"id": "17aae01d0ff8b2df"
}
},
"displayName": "testGoogleContact",
"givenName": "testGoogleContact",
"displayNameLastFirst": "testGoogleContact"
}
]
}
I need to get contacts emails with Google People API, but can't find a way to do it in docs. Currently I'm making the following request:
request.get('https://people.googleapis./v1/people/me/connections?access_token=tokenHere',
function (error, response, body) {
console.log(body);
});
And getting the following responce (I pin only the part of it, for example):
{
"resourceName": "people/c1705421824339784415",
"etag": "328OLZwdaiQ=",
"metadata": {
"sources": [
{
"type": "CONTACT",
"id": "17aae01d0ff8b2df",
"etag": "#328OLZwdaiQ="
}
],
"objectType": "PERSON"
},
"names": [
{
"metadata": {
"primary": true,
"source": {
"type": "CONTACT",
"id": "17aae01d0ff8b2df"
}
},
"displayName": "testGoogleContact",
"givenName": "testGoogleContact",
"displayNameLastFirst": "testGoogleContact"
}
]
}
- 1 That is under the Google Plus API I think – MatejMecka Commented Aug 16, 2016 at 8:49
-
@UnknownDeveloper thanks, I was able to get user's profile with request
https://www.googleapis./plus/v1/people/me?access_token=tokenHere, but I can't find a way to get contacts of user, is it possible with Google Plus API? – snowfinch27 Commented Aug 16, 2016 at 8:58 - 1 developers.google./+/web/people – MatejMecka Commented Aug 16, 2016 at 9:04
- @UnknownDeveloper thanks again, looks like I already read that guide and I can't find a way to get user's contact's emails there, only currently authenticated user email, anyway, thank you for answer) – snowfinch27 Commented Aug 16, 2016 at 9:24
4 Answers
Reset to default 4To achieve this you need to use the Google Plus API: This is what I found on the Google Plus API Documentation page:
You can get an email address for the authenticated user by using the email scope.
The following JavaScript code example demonstrates how to:
Use Google+ Sign-In to authenticate the user and get a valid OAuth 2.0 access token.
Use the token to make an HTTP GET request to the
https://www.googleapis./plus/v1/people/meREST endpoint. Parse the response and display the user's email address.
The JSON should like something like this:
{"kind":"plus#person","etag":"\"xw0en60W6-NurXn4VBU-CMjSPEw/mjjYoraGfq3Wi-8Nee4F3k7GYrs\"","emails":[{"value":"**EMAIL**","type":"account"}],"objectType":"person","id":"Person ID","displayName":"FULL NAME","name":{"familyName":"LAST NAME","givenName":"NAME"},"url":"https://plus.google./USER","image":{"url":"https://lh5.googleusercontent./-RTcRn6jTuoI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAEpg/Y6cMxfwtbQ4/photo.jpg?sz=50","isDefault":false},"placesLived":[{"value":"CITY","primary":true}],"isPlusUser":true,"verified":false,"cover":{"layout":"banner","coverPhoto":{"url":"https://lh3.googleusercontent./SybH-BjYW2ft1rzayamGLg_VwW7ocgnQ5cAxH3ROEpODvyaEODpYKW55gmAxCXDUvfKggQ4=s630-fcrop64=1,00002778ffffffff","height":626,"width":940},"coverInfo":{"topImageOffset":0,"leftImageOffset":0}},"result":{"kind":"plus#person","etag":"\"xw0en60W6-NurXn4VBU-CMjSPEw/mjjYoraGfq3Wi-8Nee4F3k7GYrs\"","emails":[{"value":"**EMAIL HERE**","type":"account"}],"objectType":"person","id":"116508277095473789406","displayName":"FULL NAME","name":{"familyName":"LAST NAME","givenName":"NAME"},"url":"https://plus.google./USER","image":{"url":"https://lh5.googleusercontent./-RTcRn6jTuoI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAEpg/Y6cMxfwtbQ4/photo.jpg?sz=50","isDefault":false},"placesLived":[{"value":"CITY I LIVE","primary":true}],"isPlusUser":true,"verified":false,"cover":{"layout":"banner","coverPhoto":{"url":"https://lh3.googleusercontent./SybH-BjYW2ft1rzayamGLg_VwW7ocgnQ5cAxH3ROEpODvyaEODpYKW55gmAxCXDUvfKggQ4=s630-fcrop64=1,00002778ffffffff","height":626,"width":940},"coverInfo":{"topImageOffset":0,"leftImageOffset":0}}}}
Source: Google Plus API documentation
In case anyone else es across this question: the solution to retrieving the email addresses of an authorized user's contacts, what the OP seems to want (not the authorized user's own email address) is at Why can't I retrieve emails addresses and phone numbers with Google People API?.
Explanation: If you look at the section under "Query Parameters" on https://developers.google./people/api/rest/v1/people.connections/list, you'll see that requestMask is a parameter (documented at https://developers.google./people/api/rest/v1/RequestMask).
It says that you'll need to include the requestMask parameter in your query, because you're doing a people.list query (i.e. using the connections GET endpoint). The requestMask parameter basically tells the API what fields to pull: person.emailAddresses tells it to pull the peoples' email addresses, person.emailAddresses,person.names tells it to pull their email addresses and names, etc.
GET https://people.googleapis./v1/people/me/connections?sortOrder=FIRST_NAME_ASCENDING&fields=connections(emailAddresses%2Cnames)&key={YOUR_API_KEY}
Try this and it will give you the emails. Make sure your contacts has emails.
You can get the profile emails from the Google People API, by making a request to https://people.googleapis./v1/people/me.
If you want non public emails, you will need to request the email or https://www.googleapis./auth/user.emails.read scope as specified in https://developers.google./people/v1/how-tos/authorizing#profile-scopes