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Revision: 20861
at November 27, 2009 23:36 by PhilK


Initial Code
import sha
import atom
import gdata.contacts
import gdata.contacts.service
 
gd_client = gdata.contacts.service.ContactsService()

# Change this obviously 
gd_client.email = 'EMAIL'
gd_client.password = 'PASSWORD'
gd_client.ProgrammaticLogin()

"""
This is used like a case statement later on.
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.
""" 
rel_list = {gdata.contacts.REL_WORK: "Work",
            gdata.contacts.REL_HOME: "Home",
            gdata.contacts.REL_OTHER: "Other",
            gdata.contacts.PHONE_MOBILE: "Mobile"}

# This is the date used for "updated_min" below.
date = '2009-08-12T00:00:00'
 
query = gdata.contacts.service.ContactsQuery()
query.updated_min = date
 
feed = gd_client.GetContactsFeed(query.ToUri())
 
for contact in feed.entry:
    print contact.title.text
    for phone in contact.phone_number:
        print rel_list[phone.rel] + ": " + phone.text
 
def rel_type(rel):
    pass

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

Initial Title
GData Contacts Example

Initial Tags
google, python

Initial Language
Python