Get contacts of a group using google people api

Question

So far, the existing questions and answers have not helped me. I am trying to get the online "try this API" to work for me. people.connections.list and contactGroups.get work for me. However, I can not find a way to get a list of contacts for a given group. It seems like this should be simple.

Answer 1

Try this:

1. Use contactGroups.get and specify a non-zero maxMembers parameter.
2. List the array memberResourceNames[] from the returned ContactGroup object.

{
  "resourceName": string,
  "etag": string,
  "metadata": {
    object (ContactGroupMetadata)
  },
  "groupType": enum (GroupType),
  "name": string,
  "formattedName": string,
  "memberResourceNames": [
    string
  ],
  "memberCount": integer,
  "clientData": [
    {
      object (GroupClientData)
    }
  ]
}

3. Use people.getBatchGet using the retrieved resource names.

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I did a contactGroups.list first. For your step 1. I had to set the resourceName = contactGroups/hex value from the list The output does not look like yours

{
  "resourceName": "contactGroups/443...",
  "etag": "k+...,
  "metadata": {
    "updateTime": "2020-11-08T15:29:59.193Z"
  },
  "groupType": "USER_CONTACT_GROUP",
  "name": "Tennis",
  "formattedName": "Tennis",
  "memberCount": 46
}

EDIT: The memberResourceNames array only appears if you specify >0 on maxMembers parameter.