Search google contact using People Api v3?

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I'm trying to use google People API to search a person by her/his name field. Here is the code sample:

service = build('people', 'v1', credentials=creds)
request = service.people().searchContacts(pageSize=10, query="A", readMask="names")
print(request.body) # results in None, but there is a lot of contacts in my list starting from "A".

I used the following links:

https://developers.google.com/people/v1/contacts#python

https://googleapis.github.io/google-api-python-client/docs/dyn/people_v1.people.html#get

https://developers.google.com/people/quickstart/python

and the SCOPE is https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonly.

I need a way to return a list of contacts using name mask (for ex, person with the name "Foo bar" should be found using "f", "F", "foo", and so on).

google-people-api google-contacts-api python-3.x python
1 Answers

Answer:

You aren't executing your request, only referencing it.

More Information:

In Python, a method without a defined return will always return None.

As you are not making the request, no return value is being obtained and so you are seeing none displayed.

Code Fix:

You need to execute the request like so:

service.people().searchContacts(pageSize=10, query="A", readMask="names").execute()

Also, the response object has no property body, so you will need to use

print(request.results)

to view the response text.

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