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I have the oauth authorization with google working correctly and am getting data from the contacts api. Now, I want to programmatically get a gmail user's first name, last name and picture. Which google api can i use to get this data?

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No one has any clue about this? I was surprised myself when I didn't find any simple answer on google's website... – Pranav Jan 21 '10 at 14:35
Is oauth the same as openid? – anon Jan 22 '10 at 3:53
Are you trying to get the name and picture for the contacts or for the user you authenticated? – Mark Koberlein Jan 22 '10 at 4:17
For the user. Getting contacts info wont be difficult as there is an api for it. – Pranav Jan 22 '10 at 5:17
@Pranav currently i am working in this! can you please share the code which have you done will be helpful for me to proceed – GowthamanSS Mar 13 at 14:18

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I found the answer while looking around in the contacts API forum. When you get the result-feed, just do the following in Java-

String Name = resultFeed.getAuthors().get(0).getName();

String emailId = resultFeed.getId();

Im still looking for a way to get the picture.

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can you post some code sample for getting first name, last name, email from google. The url you are requesting. I am doing same in android app. Thanks in Advance. – Panache Aug 31 '11 at 7:21
What has Java got to do with the Google APIs? – Chris Harrison Mar 22 at 6:11
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The contacts API perhaps works, but you have to request permission from the user to access all contacts. If I were a user, that would make me wary of granting the permission (because this essentially gives you permission to spam all my contacts...)

I found the response here to be useful, and only asks for "basic profile information":

Get user info via Google API

I have successfully used this approach, and can confirm it returns the following Json object:

{
  "id": "..."
  "email": "...",
  "verified_email": true,
  "name": "....",
  "given_name": "...",
  "family_name": "...",
  "link": "...",
  "picture": "...",
  "gender": "male",
  "locale": "en"
}
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+1 for this answer as it actually addresses the Google APIs that the question asked, as opposed to the current accepted answer which is just some random Java code. – Chris Harrison Mar 22 at 6:09
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For the picture, you can use the Google contacts Data API too: see http://code.google.com/intl/fr/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#retrieving_photo

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but how do you retrieve the photo for the logged in user? I tried google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/default/…... but I get the error "Photo query failed - invalid contact ID". – Felipe Brahm Aug 10 '11 at 23:17
In your URL, just URLencode the email address (write %40 instead of @) and it should work... – olivierlemasle Aug 11 '11 at 20:54
I've just discovered a new Google API that you can use: Portable Contacts API (code.google.com/intl/fr-FR/apis/contacts/docs/poco/1.0/…) It's easier to retrieve the user photo: you authenticate with the scope www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people, you get user info with request www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/@me/@self and it contains the URL of the photo... – olivierlemasle Aug 11 '11 at 20:57
are you sure urlencoding the email should work? I just tried it and I keep getting the same error message. What I did to go around this was to use the Google Social API (www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/@me/@self) to get the user info. The only problem is that that url can only be called on the server-side because you need to set a custom OAuth authorization header. – Felipe Brahm Aug 11 '11 at 22:35
This url www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/@me/@self isn't working now. Any idea on this ? – Sanket Jan 25 at 8:44
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The simplest way to get this information would be from the Google + API. Specifically the

https://developers.google.com/+/api/latest/people/get

When using the api use the following HTTP GET:

GET https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/me

This will return all of the above information requested from the user.

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