Hello Nicolas, Unfortunately, the Google Contacts API lets client application access users' contacts information from their contact list (e.g what is available through the Contacts Manager in GMail web UI). You can try to implement Open ID<http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OpenID.html>as your authentication mechanism, that will let your application requests for the user's first and last name but doesn't provide the user's profile picture.
Best, Alain On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Nicolas Slatiner <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > I'm new to the Google API, so please excuse me if my question seems very > amateur, Im afraid I couldn't find a proper answer in the documentation and > in the forums. > > I'm building a web site which allows users to log in using their existing > online google account. > After subscription I need to fetch the user's name and profile image so I > can save it for future use. > I'm using Javascript and understood that by using the Contacts Data API I > should be able to get my data, but I didn't manage to get the information I > need after a successful login, I couldn't find a specific method to get the > current user's details. > > I hope you could point me in the right direction, > > Thanks in advance. > > -- > 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 > -- Alain Vongsouvanh -- 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
