Does Google People API support ability to query

Question

Does google people api support the ability to query? Currently, the older api contact google api allows you to use a query parameter "q" to do a simple text search. Was wondering if people api supports this?

Thanks, Derek

Rato

Hi. I was wondering the same. So How did you do to find a people by names for example? Did you use the older Google Contact API? – Scurvy

For other people who might need a better answer than "wait", I wrote a small blog post explaining how to use the old deprecated API medium.com/@emilefugulin/… – Pearcy

Answer 1

Google People API currently does not support doing such a query. That functionality is one of the feature requests.

Viticulture

Am I thick, or does this not seem like it should already be included? – Bottoms

How do I do querying contacts in this case? Can I use contacts API until people API supports this? – Colson

What is the plan when deprecating the Contacts API? Does Google have the plan to support querying(Similiar to www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?q=tracy) in People API? – Colson

issuetracker.google.com/issues/73864682 is tracking this feature. – Viticulture

@MattMcCallum I guess the only way for now is, retrieve all contacts on your application and do a search by yourself! In my case it sucks, bringing 10.000 contacts is too damm slow! – Tinny

An alternative way is to retrieve all the ressourceName(ID) and stock them on local DB When you create a contact by API, make sure to stock also this ID somewhere linked with the contact on local DB. In this way you can always matching with this contact later. – Vaules

The other alternative is to use the deprecated API to build it, it is not great but if you don't have the luxury to wait its the best current solution. – Pearcy