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GData Contacts Example

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Simple example of using Google's API for contacts to display the contact name and phone number. More info in the comments.

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  1. import sha
  2. import atom
  3. import gdata.contacts
  4. import gdata.contacts.service
  5.  
  6. gd_client = gdata.contacts.service.ContactsService()
  7.  
  8. # Change this obviously 
  9. gd_client.email = 'EMAIL'
  10. gd_client.password = 'PASSWORD'
  11. gd_client.ProgrammaticLogin()
  12.  
  13. """
  14. This is used like a case statement later on.
  15. It's apparently a slightly slow way to do it but it just seems so elegant to me.  I'm not a Pythonista at all though so there may be a more Pythonic way to do it that I'm not aware of.
  16. """ 
  17. rel_list = {gdata.contacts.REL_WORK: "Work",
  18.             gdata.contacts.REL_HOME: "Home",
  19.             gdata.contacts.REL_OTHER: "Other",
  20.             gdata.contacts.PHONE_MOBILE: "Mobile"}
  21.  
  22. # This is the date used for "updated_min" below.
  23. date = '2009-08-12T00:00:00'
  24.  
  25. query = gdata.contacts.service.ContactsQuery()
  26. query.updated_min = date
  27.  
  28. feed = gd_client.GetContactsFeed(query.ToUri())
  29.  
  30. for contact in feed.entry:
  31.     print contact.title.text
  32.     for phone in contact.phone_number:
  33.         print rel_list[phone.rel] + ": " + phone.text
  34.  
  35. def rel_type(rel):
  36.     pass

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