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The People API lets you:
- Read and manage the authenticated user's Contacts
- Read and copy the authenticated user's "Other contacts"
- Read profile information for authenticated users and their contacts
- Read domain profiles and contacts
For example, suppose that the authenticated user, Jen, has Fabian and Ranjith in
her private contacts. When your app calls
people.connections.list to read a
list of her connections, Jen is presented with a consent screen asking to give
the app access to the list. If Jen consents, the app reads a list containing
person resources for Fabian and Ranjith.
If the app needs information for a specific person, it can then call
people.get, passing in a resource name, to get
the person resource for that person.
The app can also manage contacts by creating new contacts using
people.createContact, update existing
contacts it has read from
people.connections.list using
people.updateContact, and delete contacts
using people.deleteContact.
Google Workspace users can also list their directory domain profiles and domain
contacts using
people.listDirectoryPeople or search
them using
people.searchDirectoryPeople.
The people information that the People API reads is merged from various
sources, depending on the following conditions:
Understanding Merged Person Data
The data for a person is derived from one main source type. Data from other
sources is merged with this data if the sources are connected through verified
email addresses, phone numbers, or profile URLs. These are the ways a person may
be composed:
Only contact based people can be modified by mutation endpoints. Profile and
domain contact mutations are not supported.
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Last updated 2025-08-28 UTC.
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Apps can list connections via `people.connections.list`, retrieve specific person data using `people.get`, create contacts with `people.createContact`, update contacts with `people.updateContact`, and delete contacts via `people.deleteContact`. Google Workspace users can access domain contacts using `people.listDirectoryPeople` or `people.searchDirectoryPeople`. The data is merged from sources like public profiles, domain data, and private information, depending on user consent and scopes granted.\n"],null,["# Introduction\n\nThe People API lets you:\n\n- Read and manage the authenticated user's [Contacts](https://contacts.google.com)\n- Read and copy the authenticated user's [\"Other contacts\"](https://contacts.google.com/other)\n- Read profile information for authenticated users and their contacts\n- Read domain profiles and contacts\n\nFor example, suppose that the authenticated user, Jen, has Fabian and Ranjith in\nher private contacts. When your app calls\n[`people.connections.list`](/people/api/rest/v1/people.connections/list) to read a\nlist of her connections, Jen is presented with a consent screen asking to give\nthe app access to the list. If Jen consents, the app reads a list containing\n[`person resources`](/people/api/rest/v1/people) for Fabian and Ranjith.\n\nIf the app needs information for a specific person, it can then call\n[`people.get`](/people/api/rest/v1/people/get), passing in a resource name, to get\nthe [`person resource`](/people/api/rest/v1/people) for that person.\n\nThe app can also manage contacts by creating new contacts using\n[`people.createContact`](/people/api/rest/v1/people/createContact), update existing\ncontacts it has read from\n[`people.connections.list`](/people/api/rest/v1/people.connections/list) using\n[`people.updateContact`](/people/api/rest/v1/people/updateContact), and delete contacts\nusing [`people.deleteContact`](/people/api/rest/v1/people/deleteContact).\n\nGoogle Workspace users can also list their directory domain profiles and domain\ncontacts using\n[`people.listDirectoryPeople`](/people/api/rest/v1/people/listDirectoryPeople) or search\nthem using\n[`people.searchDirectoryPeople`](/people/api/rest/v1/people/searchDirectoryPeople).\n\nA merged view of people information\n-----------------------------------\n\nThe people information that the People API reads is merged from various\nsources, depending on the following conditions:\n\n| Source | Condition |\n|------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Public Google profile data | Always. |\n| Google Workspace domain profile data | The domain admin has [enabled external contact and profile sharing](https://support.google.com/a/answer/6343701) of domain-scoped data and the [`directory.readonly` scope](/people/v1/how-tos/authorizing#directory) has been granted |\n| The authenticated user's private profile information | One of the [`profile` scopes](/people/v1/how-tos/authorizing#OAuth2Authorizing) has been granted. |\n| The authenticated user's contacts | The [`contacts` scope](/people/v1/how-tos/authorizing#contacts) has been granted. |\n\nUnderstanding Merged Person Data\n--------------------------------\n\nThe data for a person is derived from one main source type. Data from other\nsources is merged with this data if the sources are connected through verified\nemail addresses, phone numbers, or profile URLs. These are the ways a person may\nbe composed:\n\n| Main Source | Contacts | Profiles | Google Workspace Domain Profiles | Google Workspace Domain Contacts | Usage |\n|----------------|----------|----------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|\n| Contact | 1 | 0+ | 0+ | 0+ | Returned for most endpoints |\n| Profile | 0+ | 1 | 0 or 1 | 0 | Returned in [`people.get`](/people/api/rest/v1/people/get) when it is used to get the person [for the signed-in user](/people/v1/profiles#get_the_person_for_the_authenticated_user) or get a person for [another user's Google Account](/people/v1/read-people#get_the_person_for_a_google_account_id). |\n| Domain Contact | 0+ | 0 | 0 | 1 | Returned in [`people.listDirectoryPeople`](/people/api/rest/v1/people/listDirectoryPeople) or [`people.searchDirectoryPeople`](/people/api/rest/v1/people/searchDirectoryPeople). |\n\nOnly contact based people can be modified by mutation endpoints. Profile and\ndomain contact mutations are not supported."]]