I have the same question: how do sites like Facebook access a user's gmail contacts given their username and password? Does the site need to register with google? How would one do this?
- Naomi On Jan 28, 2:45 pm, Timothy Parez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > What I don't understand is that > while nobody seems to know about a data API, > sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook have the ability > to search friends through yourGMailaccount. > > How does that work? > > Timothy. > > On 28 Jan 2008, at 20:14, Jeff Fisher (Google) wrote: > > > > > Hi Avi, > > > A "Contacts API" has been a long standing request: > > >http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=25 > > > Cheers, > > -Jeff > > > On Jan 28, 12:56 am, Avi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi All, > > >> Is there any API provied by Google to access theGmailAddress > >> book ? > > >> Thanks > >> Avi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Data API" 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://groups.google.com/group/google-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
