Greetings, I asked on StackOverflow<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6618814/pulling-gmails-other-contacts-group-via-the-google-contacts-api>, but here might be more appropriate. From the original post:
I'm trying to pull my Gmail contacts, so I can auto-complete on the 3,000 or so contacts I have within Gmail. Using the Google Contacts Data API<http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/developers_guide_protocol.html>, I'm able to get a list of (1) default contacts and (2) groups. However, (1) the default contacts ( http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full) only pulls contacts in my 'My Contacts' group, and (2) when I look for my groups (through the interactive samples<http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/1.0/developers_guide_js.html> Google provides), 'Other Contacts' is not an available group to pull from. This leads to a pretty terrible auto-complete experience: I've got about 100 'My Contacts' members, compared to 3,000 contacts in 'Other Contacts'; I can only imagine that other Gmail users are in roughly the same boat. I've looked around the interwebs, but haven't found much: - Google explaining directory vs private contacts<http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=1092941> - Google explaining default contact groups<http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=97952> - A similar complaint on the Google Contacts API google group from 2008<http://groups.google.com/group/google-contacts-api/browse_thread/thread/4a586913901eb46b/617b79d96caf51ed> So far, my backup is just asking for username/password and scraping (or using IMAP). Is there a better way out there? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html
