为了令用户帐号安全更有保障,Google现在发布了Contacts Data API,免去了帐号验证。
Contacts Data API是开发者强烈要求的API之一,因为有了它,开发者便可开发第三方应用,访问Gmail用户的联系人信息,并且可将它们共享于Google的多种产品中,包括Google Reader、Calendar等等。比如,开发者可通过Contacts Data API将Google用户的联系人导入自己开发的网络或桌面应用里,反过来也可将自己的应用里的联系人输出至Google,为移动设备或流行的桌面联系人信息管理应用编写同步程序等等。
Google Contacts Data API允许开发者通过Google Data协议创建、读取、更新或删除联系人信息,基于AtomPub。如果你是开发者,可进入官方文档查阅详情。对于普通用户,你可以期待的是以事导出或导入Google联系人信息将会变得更简单。
http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/
What is the Contacts Data API?
The Google Contacts Data API allows client applications to view and update Contacts content in the form of Google Data API feeds. Your client application can request a list of a user's contacts, edit or delete content in an existing contact, and query the content in an existing contact.
Here are some of the things you can do with the Contacts Data API:
Synchronize Google contacts with contacts on a mobile device
Maintain relationships between people in social applications
Give users the ability to communicate directly with their friends from external applications using phone, email, and IM