Hi all,

It's a valid question, but I can only say that there is no supported
way to access GMail contacts at this time.

Cheers,
-Jeff

On Feb 11, 6:06 pm, Naomi Butterfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have the same question: how do sites like Facebook access a user's
> gmail contacts given their username and password? Does the site need
> to register with google? How would one do this?
>
> - Naomi
>
> On Jan 28, 2:45 pm, Timothy Parez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > What I don't understand is that
> > while nobody seems to know about a data API,
> > sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook have the ability
> > to search friends through yourGMailaccount.
>
> > How does that work?
>
> > Timothy.
>
> > On 28 Jan 2008, at 20:14, Jeff Fisher (Google) wrote:
>
> > > Hi Avi,
>
> > > A "Contacts API" has been a long standing request:
>
> > >http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=25
>
> > > Cheers,
> > > -Jeff
>
> > > On Jan 28, 12:56 am, Avi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> Hi All,
>
> > >> Is there any API provied by Google to access theGmailAddress
> > >> book  ?
>
> > >> Thanks
> > >> Avi
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