Google Contacts v3 API support

[Cyberuben]

I have seen that this has been requested in the past (more than 1 year), but I'm wondering once again if this is something worth considering to add.

Are there any valid reasons to not add it, or has no one taken the time to look into it?

[kessiler]

Any update on this?

[sachin21jan]

I am also looking for the same. Not sure why they are not supporting Google Contacts API,

[super-cache-money]

Yeah - weird

[jmdobry]

As noted on the Google Contacts API page:

Note: For read-only access to users' contacts, use the People API, which provides both contact and profile information, and does not use the older GData protocol.

Are you just looking for read-only access?

[jmdobry]

The Google Contacts v3 API uses an older format that is quite different from the APIs that google-api-nodejs-client supports, hence why google-api-nodejs-client does not support the Contacts API.

[jmdobry]

Closing as this does not appear to be an issue. If you are convinced that this is really a bug, please feel free to re-open the issue and add more information such as:

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Or, consider opening a Pull Request.

Otherwise, support questions are handled on Stack Overflow.

[abdabsi]

The official googleapi library on NodeJS does not use GData protocol, but you can still leverage an existing Auth Client you've created with googleapi and make an HTTP request to get the Contacts API data without using another library.
Here's the code:

const {google} = require("googleapis");
const authObj = new google.auth.OAuth2({
    access_type: 'offline',
    clientId: process.env.GOOGLE_ID,
    clientSecret: process.env.GOOGLE_SECRET,
});

This is to refresh the tokens and set the new tokens to auth object:

authObj.on('tokens', (tokens) => {
    const access_token = tokens.access_token
    if (tokens.refresh_token){
        this.myTokens.refreshToken = tokens.refresh_token
        // save refresh token in the database if it exists
    }
        this.myTokens.accessToken = tokens.access_token       
        // save new access token (tokens.access_token)
}
authObj.setCredentials({
    access_token:this.myTokens.accessToken,
    refresh_token:this.myTokens.refreshToken,
});

That's the request call you need to make to access Google Contacts API v3 if you're using the googleapi nodejs library:

authObj.request({
    headers:{
        "GData-Version":3.0
    },
    params:{
        "alt":"json",
        //"q":"OPTIONAL SEARCH QUERY",
        //"startindex":0
        "orderby":"lastmodified",
        "sortorder":"descending",
    },
    url: "https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full"
}).then( response => {
    console.log(response); // extracted contacts
});