You Little beauty - v=3.0 is exactly what I needed - Once v=3.0 is added the q parameter works Thanks Warren
On Friday, October 19, 2012 6:36:26 AM UTC+10, Warren Vail wrote: > > OK, I've had some success in PHP with > https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/reference, but I > found that in addition to specifying the max-results parameter, I needed to > include &v=3.0 (specifying the api version to gain access to the contacts > first and last name). > > I also found that PHP's xml parsing provided by simpleXMLLoad did not > completely parse the XML in the response, it appears simpleXMLLoad doesn't > consider tagnames that contain colons (as in gd:email) as valid. The > workaround for this was to use the PHP xml_parse modules where you code > your own start_tag and end_tag routines to identify the beginning and end > of a tag, and a middle_tag routine to get at the information between the > beginning and end of a tag (the start_tag function will have access to any > attributes for the tag). From there you should be able to create your own > CSV file with the contents. > > One Warning. Many of my contacts were quite old (some came from GMail > when it was a separate service), so the data seemed like garbage. For > example out of 26 contacts only 11 had both a first and last name, and only > 9 had email addresses. Many of the email addresses had no name at all, > possibly because some of my newer contacts had not yet shared anything with > me. > > good luck, > > On Monday, August 6, 2012 6:31:09 PM UTC-7, Luis wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I want to retrieve all my Google contacts with a script. I know I >> must retrieve >> *https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?max-results=9999* >> after authentication. No problem with that, except that it is a xml >> file.... >> How can I retrieve the GMAIL-CSV version? >> >> Thanks! >> >> L. >> > -- 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
