Method: people.connections.list

Provides a list of the authenticated user's contacts merged with any connected profiles.

The request throws a 400 error if 'personFields' is not specified.

HTTP request

GET https://people.googleapis.com/v1/{resourceName=people/*}/connections

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
resourceName

string

Required. The resource name to return connections for. Only people/me is valid.

Query parameters

Parameters
pageToken

string

Optional. A page token, received from a previous connections.list call. Provide this to retrieve the subsequent page.

When paginating, all other parameters provided to connections.list must match the call that provided the page token.
pageSize

integer

Optional. The number of connections to include in the response. Valid values are between 1 and 2000, inclusive. Defaults to 100 if not set or set to 0.
sortOrder

enum (SortOrder)

Optional. The order in which the connections should be sorted. Defaults to LAST_MODIFIED_ASCENDING.
requestSyncToken

boolean

Optional. Whether the response should include nextSyncToken, which can be used to get all changes since the last request. For subsequent sync requests use the syncToken param instead. Initial sync requests that specify requestSyncToken have an additional rate limit.
syncToken

string

Optional. A sync token, received from a previous connections.list call. Provide this to retrieve only the resources changed since the last request. Sync requests that specify syncToken have an additional rate limit.

When syncing, all other parameters provided to connections.list must match the call that provided the sync token.
requestMask

object (RequestMask)

Optional. DEPRECATED (Please use personFields instead)

A mask to restrict results to a subset of person fields.
personFields

string (FieldMask format)

Required. A field mask to restrict which fields on each person are returned. Multiple fields can be specified by separating them with commas. Valid values are:

  • addresses
  • ageRanges
  • biographies
  • birthdays
  • braggingRights
  • coverPhotos
  • emailAddresses
  • events
  • genders
  • imClients
  • interests
  • locales
  • memberships
  • metadata
  • names
  • nicknames
  • occupations
  • organizations
  • phoneNumbers
  • photos
  • relations
  • relationshipInterests
  • relationshipStatuses
  • residences
  • sipAddresses
  • skills
  • taglines
  • urls
  • userDefined

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains data with the following structure:

The response to a request for the authenticated user's connections.

JSON representation 
{
  "connections": [
    {
      object (Person)
    }
  ],
  "nextPageToken": string,
  "nextSyncToken": string,
  "totalPeople": integer,
  "totalItems": integer
}
Fields
connections[]

object (Person)

The list of people that the requestor is connected to.
nextPageToken

string

A token, which can be sent as pageToken to retrieve the next page. If this field is omitted, there are no subsequent pages.
nextSyncToken

string

A token, which can be sent as syncToken to retrieve changes since the last request. Request must set requestSyncToken to return the sync token.
totalPeople
(deprecated)

integer

DEPRECATED (Please use totalItems) The total number of people in the list without pagination.
totalItems

integer

The total number of items in the list without pagination.

Authorization Scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonly

For more information, see the Authorization guide.

SortOrder

The order in which a list of connections should be sorted. This is only used if sync is not requested.

Enums
LAST_MODIFIED_ASCENDING Sort people by when they were changed; older entries first.
LAST_MODIFIED_DESCENDING Sort people by when they were changed; newer entries first.
FIRST_NAME_ASCENDING Sort people by first name.
LAST_NAME_ASCENDING Sort people by last name.

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