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sokki
sokki

Reputation: 35

getContactsByCustomField Performance

I'm writing a google app script, that sync our crm-contacts to google contacts.

I've a trigger every 10 minutes and only sync 10 contacts per run. But i get many script-timeouts per day.

I found out, that the slowest operation in my script is

// Contact already exist?
var existing = ContactsApp.getContactsByCustomField(id, 'crmId');

It takes around 20-30 seconds (!!!)

Any Idea why this crucial function is that slow? Or what can I do to find contacts, that already exist in google? Unfortunately, the crmId is the only unique Field to identify the contact.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 333

Answers (2)

sokki
sokki

Reputation: 35

Thank you for the hints.

The ContactGroup.getContacts() takes the same time as ContactsApp.getContactsByCustomField().

So now I store all contacts in an array once and in the loop, I search this array myself as mentioned by Mogsdad. This works fine for me.

Upvotes: 0

Zig Mandel
Zig Mandel

Reputation: 19864

That query is slow, Ive used it before too. Back then I noticed that the full http api for contacts doesnt have that query so it seems that apps script is actually searching manually all contacts until if finds that one. I actually ended up using apps script for that proyect because gas had that search possibility but it certainly looks like google doesnt index by custom fields.

Upvotes: 1

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