Create new contacts through google contacts API or people API

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Is it possible to create google contacts using the google contact APIs or people APIs?

I'm having trouble creating new contacts using the google APIs.

I'm searching for days and found the following information:

1 - Looks like the people API package comes to replace google contacts API

https://gsuite-developers.googleblog.com/2017/07/google-people-api-now-supports-updates.html

2 - Many people are unable to create new contacts with python 3+ using gdata and atom packages.

3 - people API appears as recommended by Gsuite

https://support.google.com/a/answer/6103110?hl=pt-BR

I would like to know if anyone is creating new contacts using these google APIs.

Is a g suite email required?

How do I get access token?

I've done all the setup on google cloud platform (enable APIs and auth2), i have the json file, secret key and client id

edit:

I am managing to list my 50 contacts with this code, I am having to modify the blocks to create new contacts

from __future__ import print_function
import pickle
import os.path
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request

# If modifying these scopes, delete the file token.pickle.
SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts']

def main():
    """Shows basic usage of the People API.
    Prints the name of the first 10 connections.
    """
    creds = None
    # The file token.pickle stores the user's access and refresh tokens, and is
    # created automatically when the authorization flow completes for the first
    # time.
    if os.path.exists('token.pickle'):
        with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:
            creds = pickle.load(token)
    # If there are no (valid) credentials available, let the user log in.
    if not creds or not creds.valid:
        if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
            creds.refresh(Request())
        else:
            flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
                'credentials.json', SCOPES)
            creds = flow.run_local_server(port=0)
        # Save the credentials for the next run
        with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token:
            pickle.dump(creds, token)

    service = build('people', 'v1', credentials=creds)

    # Call the People API
    print('List 50 connection names')
    results = service.people().connections().list(
        resourceName='people/me',
        pageSize=50,
        personFields='names,emailAddresses').execute()
    connections = results.get('connections', [])

    for person in connections:
        names = person.get('names', [])
        if names:
            name = names[0].get('displayName')
            print(name)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

please undelete your post, i have an answer, I understood your answer — ansev

Michael Michael · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-01T21:53:48

Since you already have auth working to list contacts, you should be able to do something like this to create one:

newContact = { "names": [{ "givenName": "John", "familyName": "Doe" }] }
result = service.people().createContact(body=newContact).execute()

The full definition of what can be in the body/person is here.

Create new contacts through google contacts API or people API

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