Retrieve Profiles and Connections

After you've completed the steps in Get Ready to Use the People API, you are ready to retrieve data by sending requests to the People API.

The following code samples demonstrate how to send a few simple requests:

• Get the user's connections.
• Get the person for the user.
• Get the person for a Google Account.

For a full list of methods, see the reference documentation.

Get the user's connections

To get a list of people in the user's contacts, use the following code:

Protocol

GET /v1/people/me/connections?personFields=names,emailAddresses HTTP/1.1
Host: people.googleapis.com

Java

ListConnectionsResponse response = peopleService.people().connections().list("people/me")
    .setPersonFields("names,emailAddresses")
    .execute();
List<Person> connections = response.getConnections();

Python

connections = people_service.people().connections()
    .list('people/me', personFields='names,emailAddresses')

PHP

$connections = $people_service->people_connections->listPeopleConnections(
    'people/me', array('personFields' => 'names,emailAddresses'));

.NET

PeopleResource.ConnectionsResource.ListRequest peopleRequest =
    peopleService.People.Connections.List("people/me");
peopleRequest.PersonFields = "names,emailAddresses";
ListConnectionsResponse connectionsResponse = peopleRequest.Execute();
IList<Person> connections = connectionsResponse.Connections;

Get the person for the user

To get the user's profile, use the following code:

Protocol

GET /v1/people/me?personFields=names,emailAddresses HTTP/1.1
Host: people.googleapis.com

Java

Person profile = peopleService.people().get("people/me")
    .setPersonFields("names,emailAddresses")
    .execute();

Python

profile = people_service.people()
    .get('people/me', personFields='names,emailAddresses')

PHP

$profile = $people_service->people->get(
    'people/me', array('personFields' => 'names,emailAddresses'));

.NET

PeopleResource.GetRequest peopleRequest =
    peopleService.People.Get("people/me");
peopleRequest.PersonFields = "names,emailAddresses";
Person profile = peopleRequest.Execute();

Get the person for a Google Account

To get the person information for any Google Account, use the following code:

Protocol

GET /v1/people/account_id?personFields=names,emailAddresses HTTP/1.1
Host: people.googleapis.com

Java

Person profile = peopleService.people().get("account_id")
    .setPersonFields("names,emailAddresses")
    .execute();

Python

profile = people_service.people()
    .get('account_id', personFields='names,emailAddresses')

PHP

$profile = $people_service->people->get(
    'account_id', array('personFields' => 'names,emailAddresses'));

.NET

PeopleResource.GetRequest peopleRequest =
    peopleService.People.Get("account_id");
peopleRequest.PersonFields = "names,emailAddresses";
Person profile = peopleRequest.Execute();