Fetch users’ contact lists from your web application without asking them to provide their passwords.
First, register your application’s domain. Then make users follow this URL:
Contacts::Google.authentication_url('http://mysite.com/invite')
They will authenticate on Google and it will send them back to the URL provided. Google will add a token GET parameter to the query part of the URL. Use that token in the next step:
gmail = Contacts::Google.new(params[:token]) gmail.contacts # => [#<Contact 1>, #<Contact 2>, ...]
The resulting Contacts::Contact objects have ‘name` and `email` properties.
Read more in Contacts::Google. I plan to support more APIs (Microsoft Live, for starters); feel free to contribute.
Author: Mislav Marohnić ([email protected])
This fork of the contacts codebase is available as a gem, prefixed with ‘mislav’ to avoid conflicts with the original contacts gem. Do
gem install mislav_contacts
to install.
Please note that you will need to install the json gem if you are not using this gem as part of a Rails project.
Contacts::Google.authentication_url
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generates a URL for target with default parameters
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should handle boolean parameters
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skips parameters that have nil value
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should be able to exchange one-time for session token
Contacts::Google
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fetches contacts feed via HTTP GET
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handles a normal response body
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handles gzipped response
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raises a FetchingError when something goes awry
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parses the resulting feed into name/email pairs
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parses a complex feed into name/email pairs
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makes modification time available after parsing
Contacts::Google GET query parameter handling
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abstracts ugly parameters behind nicer ones
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should have implicit :descending with :order
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should have default :limit of 200
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should skip nil values in parameters