retrieve all my Activities from Google+ programmatically

Question

I was trying to write a program to retrieve all my activities from Google+. I studied the sample code provided by Google and wrote my program like this:

// Fetch the available activities
Plus.Activities.List listActivities = plus.activities().list("me", "public");

listActivities.setMaxResults(20L);

ActivityFeed feed;
try {
  feed = listActivities.execute();
} catch (HttpResponseException e) {
  log.severe(Util.extractError(e));
  throw e;
}
// Keep track of the page number in case we're listing activities
// for a user with thousands of activities. We'll limit ourselves
// to 5 pages
int currentPageNumber = 0;
String token = "";
while (token != null && feed != null && feed.getItems() != null && currentPageNumber < 5) {
  currentPageNumber++;

  System.out.println();
  System.out.println("~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ page "+currentPageNumber+" of activities ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~");
  System.out.println();

  for (Activity activity : feed.getItems()) {

    show(activity);
    System.out.println();
    System.out.println("------------------------------------------------------");
    System.out.println();
  }

  // Fetch the next page
  token = feed.getNextPageToken();
  System.out.println("next token: " + token);
  listActivities.setPageToken(token);
  feed = listActivities.execute();
}

The problem is that this only allows me to retrieve my "public" activities. I also have some private activities and this program didn't get them. The problem is related to

plus.activities().list("me", "public");

This list function requires an input parameter, the collection of activities to list. Here, it is "public". I want to retrieve all activities instead of just public ones. But based on

https://developers.google.com/+/api/latest/activities/list

The only available input for this collection of activities to list is "public". So my questions are:

Is it possible to retrieve all my Activities (both public and non-public) from Google+ programmatically?
If it is possible, how can I do it with Java?

Thanks a lot!

This appears to still be an issue. I can't find a way of fetching my own non-public activities, even though I'm an authorized user — Denis Kniazhev

Chirag Shah Chirag Shah · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-12T03:44:01

The official Google+ API only provides read-only access to public data. So, you'll only be able to use "public" as the collection of activities.

retrieve all my Activities from Google+ programmatically

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