Delete “Other Contact” using Python with Google People API

Question

I used Google People API v1.otherContacts.copyOtherContactToMyContactsGroup (reference) to copy a contact from "Other Contacts" to "myContacts" contact group. I now want to delete the original contact from "Other Contacts" using the same API.

REST Resource v1.otherContacts (reference) does not list a DELETE action.

I tried using v1.people.deleteContact (reference) passing the resource name of my "Other Contact":

import pickle
from googleapiclient.discovery import build

with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:
    creds = pickle.load(token)

people_api = build('people', 'v1', credentials=creds)
people_service = people_api.people()
response = people_service.deleteContact(resourceName='otherContacts/c1971897568350947161').execute()

But I got an error saying:

TypeError: Parameter "resourceName" value "otherContacts/c1971897568350947161" does not match the pattern "^people/[^/]+$"

Looks like v1.people.deleteContact does not work for deleting a contact in "Other Contacts".

How can I programmatically delete a contact from "Other Contacts"?

EDIT: Based on @DaImTo's suggestion below, I tried replacing otherContacts/ in the resource name with people/ and invoking the v1.people.deleteContact API, but I got an error saying:

googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 404 when requesting https://people.googleapis.com/v1/people/c1971897568350947161:deleteContact?alt=json returned " generic::NOT_FOUND: Contact person resources are not found.". Details: "[{'@type': 'type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.BadRequest', 'fieldViolations': [{'field': 'resourceNames[0]', 'description': 'Resource not found.'}]}]">

DaImTo DaImTo · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-07T10:08:33

I advice consulting the documentation for people.deleteContact

Required. The resource name of the contact to delete.

DELETE https://people.googleapis.com/v1/{resourceName=people/*}:deleteContact

That means it should be people/c1971897568350947161 assuming that is the id of the user you want to delete c1971897568350947161.

Delete “Other Contact” using Python with Google People API

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