Google Contact API

I`m quite a Google fan and enjoying playing with their APIs. For me one of the big attractions of Google is the quality and availability of the APIs.

Below is a bit of code that fetches the postal address of a contact from your Google contacts. It took me ages to figure out so I hope posting it here will cut down the learning curve and yes I`m aware its only a simple thing .

You will need the Google Gdata libraries available from Google. I also use lxml to process the feed. I cant recommend lxml enough. If your using Python and XML or HTML use lxml.

The following has been lifted straight from a interpreted session so fire up Python first and paste the below in remembering to change the username and password.

import atom
import gdata.contacts
import gdata.contacts.service
from lxml import etree

gd_client = gdata.contacts.service.ContactsService()
gd_client.email = 'jo@gmail.com'
gd_client.password = 'password'
gd_client.source = 'exampleCo-exampleApp-1'
gd_client.ProgrammaticLogin()

feed = gd_client.GetContactsFeed()
entry = feed.entry[0]
entry
entry.postal_address[0].text
'123 Fake Street'