Anyone who has been looking at using the G+API.People.get functions, have you also looked at https://developers.google.com/people/api/rest/v1/people ?
This is the non-Google-Plus API for accessing Google accounts. It retrieves all the same data from the aboutme page. It references the same account IDs. It refers to Google profiles as:-
Google profile. You can view the profile at https://profiles.google.com/id where id is the source id.
Google contact. You can view the contact at https://contact.google.com/id where id is the source id.
Where id is the same old account id number.
So hang on a minute, what's going on here? I haven't dug into this fully but it appears that authentication and access is via a more restrictive process than the G+API version. But the data is exactly the same. Failures in the G+API privacy controls were given as the reason for killing G+ but here we have what appears to be a more or less identical API to the same data.
It's not definitive but it does suggest that https://profiles.google.com/id is not G+ specific and will not necessarily disappear after the G+Sunset.
This is the non-Google-Plus API for accessing Google accounts. It retrieves all the same data from the aboutme page. It references the same account IDs. It refers to Google profiles as:-
Google profile. You can view the profile at https://profiles.google.com/id where id is the source id.
Google contact. You can view the contact at https://contact.google.com/id where id is the source id.
Where id is the same old account id number.
So hang on a minute, what's going on here? I haven't dug into this fully but it appears that authentication and access is via a more restrictive process than the G+API version. But the data is exactly the same. Failures in the G+API privacy controls were given as the reason for killing G+ but here we have what appears to be a more or less identical API to the same data.
It's not definitive but it does suggest that https://profiles.google.com/id is not G+ specific and will not necessarily disappear after the G+Sunset.
Both the links are showing either 404/blank, please
ReplyDeleteIfinder Ifindi Still digging.
ReplyDeleteThis one works.
https://profiles.google.com/106416716945076707395
This one doesn't
https://contacts.google.com/106416716945076707395
First link your profile OK
ReplyDeleteSecond link 404
It would appear that the documentation is wrong. Or I'm misunderstanding it. https://contact.google.com doesn't exist. accounts.google.com - Sign in - Google Accounts redirects to the contacts display, but I can't find any combination of ID and URL structure that redirects to a specific Contact record. And there seems to be a hex contact ID that is separate from the account ID.
ReplyDeleteIMHO
ReplyDeleteProfile/About Me are of Google not only of Google+
Is it correct ?
Ifinder Ifindi Off the topic, did you try exporting your posts to your blogger blog, If yes, how was your experience and can we see your blog where these posts were imported to get an idea of how do they look. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI've seen the APIs, and added them as comments in my code, but hadn't actually looked closely at them yet.
ReplyDeleteDeepak Ravlani
ReplyDeleteExporting ? Waiting Migration, please, blog under renovation
Not tried, dare not to make it a mess, which already some what - Not updated since long, however if you like to see 'how not to do'
Here : ifindi.blogspot.com - FindYourSelf
Thanks
basically they will deteriorate the API
ReplyDeleteGoogle says that there is no evidence — there is also no evidence that any data has been misused
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