Get Gmail User Profile Picture and Name with Google API client

Question

The Google API client has Class: Google::Apis::PeopleV1::Name and Google::Apis::PeopleV1::Photo how do I hit these endpoints? I tried

p = Google::Apis::PeopleV1::Photo.new
response = p.url

But it returns nil. Opposed to this GmailService has instance methods like get_user_message which I can call like this

@service = Google::Apis::GmailV1::GmailService.new
# authorization is done
response = @service.get_user_message(user_id, message_id)

It returns a response object which has the message, now I want to fetch the User's name and Photo, but I did not find any method to access this information. How do I retrieve the User's name and photo using the API client?

Answer 1

I think that the value retrieved with the method of users.messages.get in Gmail API doesn't include "User Profile Picture". Ref So for example, in order to retrieve the URL of user's profile photo, how about using the method of people.connections.list in People API? The sample script is as follows.

Sample script:

service = Google::Apis::PeopleV1::PeopleServiceService.new
service.authorization = authorize
response = service.list_person_connections(
    'people/me',
    'page_size': 1000,
    'person_fields': "names,emailAddresses,photos"
)
puts "No connections" if response.connections.empty?
result = response.connections.map {|person| {
    'resourceName': person.resource_name,
    'email': person.email_addresses[0].value,
    'photos': person.photos.map {|e| e.url}
}}
puts result

Result:

When above script is run, the following result is returned.

[
  {"resourceName": "people/###", "email": "###", "photos": ["https://###"]},
  {"resourceName": "people/###", "email": "###", "photos": ["https://###", "https://###"]},
  ,
  ,
  ,
]

• The URLs of phtots are the URLs of the user's photo images.

Note:

• In this case, it seems that the method of otherContacts.list doesn't return the user's photo data.

Reference:

• Method: people.connections.list