Question

I know how to get the entire contacts list using Google Contacts API (I get a session token and use Google s Zend package for PHP).

But how can I get the person s name and email address? Currently, the Contacts API just seems to give all of the contacts. I m not sure how to distinguish which email and name out of that list corresponds to the user s account.

Is there an easy way to get the user s full name and email address?

Any help would be useful. Thanks!

Answer 1

yes goto http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/reference.html#ContactsFeed and see the "Contacts feed" they say to use the Default, it worked for me after using the default - lower case only.

request

http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full

will give you the user s details.

http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/bla@gmail.com/full

will give you a contact info (if bla@gmail.com) is a contact.

Answer 2

If you ask for the "default" contact (i.e., me), you get what you need. Mind that you need to write default with a lowercase d and not as written in the documentation.

Answer 3

THe xml returned for the default contact list will have the user s name and email within the "author" element. I don t know PHP, but the code might look something like this...

  email = xml["author"].first["email"].first
  name = xml["author"].first["name"].first

Answer 4

You can obtain this information by querying :

"https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?oauth_token=YourToken123"

and parsing your XML (SimpleXML example):

$user_email = $xmlResult->id;
$user_name  = $xmlResult->author->name;

$xmlResult->author->name will give you the whole name as the user has configured it, so it s not certain that you will get in the "FirstName Lastname" format.

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