Google People API

Name: People API
Brand: Google People API
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✓ Official Vendor SpecCRMContact Managementoauth223 EndpointsREST

Install Jentic One Beta

Connect the People API to your agent

Jentic One is a self-hosted execution layer for AI agents. It lets your agent call the People API, or any other public or private API you need. You set the rules, the agent never sees your credentials, and every call is logged.

Two steps, two machines. Install the instance in a safe environment, then register your agent from wherever it runs.

Step 1: Jentic One Host machine

# On the machine that will host your Jentic One instance:
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh

Step 2: Agent machine

# On the machine where your agent runs (keep this separate from the instance):
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jentic/jentic-one/main/tools/install.sh | sh
jentic register       # connects your agent to your Jentic One instance

Jentic One is in public beta. The setup above keeps your agent separate from the instance, which is what you want before using real credentials: an agent running as the same OS user as Jentic One can read its stored keys directly. Just evaluating? A single local install is fine to start. See the secure deployment guide for the tiers.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with People API.

Retrieve authenticated user profile data and connected contacts with field-mask scoping

Create, update, and delete personal contacts in a user's Google Contacts list

Organise contacts into contact groups and assign or remove members in batch

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For Agents

Read and write a user's Google contacts and profile data, manage contact groups, and look up people by resourceName with field masks.

Use for: I need to fetch the signed-in user's full Google profile, Search for a contact by name across the user's Google Contacts, List all contacts in a specific contact group, Create a new contact with a phone number and email address

Not supported: Does not handle email sending, calendar events, or Workspace-wide directory administration - use for reading and writing a single user's Google Contacts and profile only.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use People API for, with concrete tasks.

★ CRM Contact Sync

Synchronise a user's Google Contacts into a third-party CRM so sales reps see the same address book on every device. The People API exposes 23 endpoints covering personal contacts, contact groups, and otherContacts, with sync tokens that return only changes since the last poll. A typical initial backfill of a 5,000-contact list completes in minutes, then incremental syncs run in seconds.

List all connections for the authenticated user with personFields=names,emailAddresses,phoneNumbers and pageSize=200, then upsert each Person into the target CRM keyed by resourceName.

User Profile Onboarding

Pull a signed-in user's profile fields during sign-up so an application does not need to re-collect names, photos, and email addresses already verified by Google. Calling people/me with the right field mask returns names, emailAddresses, and photos in a single request, cutting onboarding form steps and improving conversion. The OAuth scope used here is contacts.readonly or userinfo.profile depending on which fields are requested.

Call GET /v1/people/me with personFields=names,emailAddresses,photos using the user's OAuth access token and map the returned Person object to the app's user record.

Contact Group Management

Build features that group contacts into segments such as Customers, Vendors, or Investors and apply bulk operations to each group. The People API exposes contactGroups CRUD endpoints plus a members:modify endpoint for batch membership changes. Groups can hold up to several thousand members and a single modify call can add or remove up to 1,000 contacts per request.

POST /v1/contactGroups to create a group named 'Customers', then call /v1/contactGroups/{resourceName}/members:modify with resourceNamesToAdd containing the IDs of 25 customer contacts.

Other Contacts Discovery

Surface contacts that Google has inferred from a user's Gmail and Chat history but never explicitly saved. The otherContacts.list and otherContacts.search endpoints return these auto-detected people with email and name fields, making it easy to suggest 'add to contacts' or autocomplete sender lists. This data is read-only and limited to the contacts.other.readonly scope.

Call GET /v1/otherContacts:search?query=acme&readMask=emailAddresses,names to find every inferred contact whose name or email contains 'acme'.

AI Agent Contact Lookup via Jentic

Agents that need to resolve a person mentioned in a prompt can use Jentic to call the People API without managing OAuth tokens or field masks directly. Jentic stores the user's Google credentials in its vault, exposes a single search query to find the right operation, and returns a typed schema the agent fills in. This turns a multi-day OAuth integration into a sub-hour wiring task.

Search Jentic for 'find a Google contact by name', load the people.connections.list schema, and execute it with personFields=names,emailAddresses and a query filter.

Key Endpoints

23 endpoints — the google people api provides programmatic access to a user's profile and contacts stored in their google account.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/v1/people/{resourceName}

Get a single Person with field mask

GET

/v1/people:batchGet

Fetch multiple people in one call

POST

/v1/people:batchCreateContacts

Create up to 200 contacts at once

POST

/v1/people:batchDeleteContacts

Delete up to 500 contacts at once

GET

/v1/contactGroups

List the user's contact groups

POST

/v1/contactGroups/{resourceName}/members:modify

Add or remove contact group members in bulk

GET

/v1/otherContacts:search

Search inferred contacts from Gmail and Chat

GET

/v1/people/{resourceName}

Get a single Person with field mask

GET

/v1/people:batchGet

Fetch multiple people in one call

POST

/v1/people:batchCreateContacts

Create up to 200 contacts at once

POST

/v1/people:batchDeleteContacts

Delete up to 500 contacts at once

GET

/v1/contactGroups

List the user's contact groups

Why Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

Your Google OAuth credential for the People API is stored once, encrypted, by your own Jentic One instance and injected at execution time. It never enters the agent's prompt, logs, or context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic by intent such as 'list Google contacts' or 'create a Google contact group', and Jentic returns the matching People API operation with its input schema so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing the reference docs.

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FAQs

Specific to using People API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Google People API use?

The People API uses OAuth 2.0 with user-consented scopes such as https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts, contacts.readonly, contacts.other.readonly, and userinfo.profile. Through Jentic the user's refresh token is stored encrypted in your Jentic One instance and short-lived access tokens are injected at call time, so the agent never sees the raw credential.

Can I create contacts in bulk with the People API?

Yes. POST /v1/people:batchCreateContacts accepts up to 200 contacts per call and returns the created Person resources, and POST /v1/people:batchDeleteContacts accepts up to 500 resourceNames per call. For very large imports loop over batches with a backoff to respect per-user quotas.

What are the rate limits for the Google People API?

The People API enforces standard Google quotas measured in queries per minute per user and per project. Default project quotas can be raised in Google Cloud Console. When using Jentic, transient 429 responses are surfaced to the agent so it can back off rather than retrying blindly.

How do I list all of a user's contacts through Jentic?

Run jentic search 'list a user's Google contacts', load the returned operation schema for GET /v1/people/me/connections, and execute it with personFields set to the fields you need (for example names,emailAddresses,phoneNumbers) and pageSize=200. Jentic handles the OAuth token exchange and pagination cursor automatically.

Is the People API free?

The Google People API is free to use within standard Google API quotas. There is no per-request charge, but each Google Cloud project has rate limits and a daily quota that can be increased on request.

Can I retrieve contacts inferred from Gmail without saving them?

Yes. The otherContacts resource exposes contacts auto-detected from email and chat interactions. Use GET /v1/otherContacts to list them or GET /v1/otherContacts:search to filter by name or email. This data requires the contacts.other.readonly scope and is read-only.

Can I limit what my agent is allowed to do with the Google People API?

Yes. Because Jentic One is self-hosted, your own rules decide which People API operations and which Google OAuth credential the agent may use. The API puts the contact group in the URL path (/v1/contactGroups/{resourceName}/members:modify) and reads a person by resourceName, so you can pin the agent to a single contact group where it only lists members and modifies that group. You choose the operations it can call, so destructive calls like people:batchDeleteContacts stay off the table unless you explicitly add them.

Google People API

Connect the People API to your agent

Capabilities

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Use Cases

Key Endpoints

Why Jentic?

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