gem install contacts –source gems.github.com
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('[email protected]', params[:token])
contacts = gmail.contacts
#-> [ ['Fitzgerald', '[email protected]', '[email protected]'],
['William Paginate', '[email protected]'], ...
]
Read more in Contacts::Google. I plan to support more APIs (Microsoft Live, for starters); feel free to contribute.
Author: Mislav Marohnić ([email protected])
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