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lord_nimon
lord_nimon

Reputation: 274

Obtaining both the name and phone number from a Google People API search

I'm using the Google People API in Python to query my Google Contacts list. I can get this feature to work, but one specific operation does not work.

results = service.people().connections().list(
    resourceName='people/me',
    pageSize=1,
    personFields='names,phoneNumbers').execute()
connections = results.get('connections', [])

for person in connections:
    data = person.get('names', [])

This works -- it gives me a list of names. However, I want a list of names and phone numbers. If I do this:

for person in connections:
    data = person.get('phoneNumbers', [])

This also works. I get a list of phone numbers. However, if I try to get both, I get no results:

for person in connections:
    data = person.get('names,phoneNumbers', [])

According to my interpretation of the People API docs (https://developers.google.com/people/api/rest/v1/people/get), this should work. Instead, I just get nothing.

What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1515

Answers (2)

Emel
Emel

Reputation: 2442

As @marmor has said, the error lies in how you are accessing the content of the response. The method dict.get() does refuse two keys at the same time. Here are two different approaches that you can use.

# Calling them separately
personName = person.get('names', [])
personPhone = person.get('phoneNumbers',[])
# Calling them together using list compression
keys = ["names","phoneNumbers"]
data = [person.get(key) for key in keys]

You should refer to people().connections().list() to better understand the response format. In this case, it is a resource of type Person

As another possible approximation is, getting a list of names and their phone numbers and store them in a dictionary:

Code sample
def getNameAndPhones():
  service = people_service()
  results = service.people().connections().list(
    resourceName= "people/me",                                
    personFields='names,phoneNumbers').execute()              
  person_dict = {}           
  for per in  results['connections']:                         
    try:
      name =  per['names'][0]['displayName'] 
      # As the response is an array
      # we need to do some list comprehension
      phoneNumbers = [x['value'] for x in per['phoneNumbers']]         
      person_dict[name] = phoneNumber
    except : 
      name =  per['names'][0]['displayName']         
      person_dict[name] = "No phone Number"

  print(person_dict)
  return person_dict
Response
{
   "Eco":["00112233"],
   "Maxim maxim":"No phone Number",
   "dummy super":[
      "123123123",
      "12312309812390"
   ]
}
Documentation

Upvotes: 1

marmor
marmor

Reputation: 28179

When you call person.get() you are not calling the v1/people/get endpoint, you're just getting a value from a dictionary.

The previous call to service.people().connections()....execute() already gets all the information from the API and puts it in a list of dictionaries.

Then when you iterate over connections you get a dictionary named person which holds two keys names and phoneNumbers. Your code is trying to get a key with the name of names,phoneNumbers which doesn't exist.

Not sure how you're using data or what type are you expecting it to be, but to have data contain both name and phones simply do:

data = person

or just use person directly in the rest of your code.

Upvotes: 1

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