I'm trying to pull my Gmail contacts, so I can auto-complete on the 3,000 or so contacts I have within Gmail. Using the Google Contacts Data API, I'm able to get a list of (1) default contacts and (2) groups.
However, (1) the default contacts (http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full) only pulls contacts in my 'My Contacts' group, and (2) when I look for my groups (through the interactive samples Google provides), 'Other Contacts' is not an available group to pull from.
This leads to a pretty terrible auto-complete experience: I've got about 100 'My Contacts' members, compared to 3,000 contacts in 'Other Contacts'; I can only imagine that other Gmail users are in roughly the same boat.
I've looked around the interwebs, but haven't found much:
- Google explaining directory vs private contacts
- Google explaining default contact groups
- A similar complaint on the Google Contacts API google group from 2008
So far, my backup is just asking for username/password and scraping (or using IMAP). Is there a better way out there?