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Get #GooglePlus Profile page from #Email
If you want to get a person’s Google Plus profile page from their email address, here is the trick to do it.
- Get the user’s profile picture from AvatarAPI.com
- Take the digits between the last forward-slash “/” and the dot “.”
So, for instance, if you wanted to get the Google Plus page of “peter.smith@gmail.com”, you plug this into AvatarAPI, and you get
lh3.googleusercontent.com/-06yJmZ9VFKI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAA/KHOss3osMJ4/s181-c/117841766777955842390.jpg
Where 117841766777955842390 is the Google Plus Profile ID.
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Note, that once you get the Google Plus Profile ID, you can call “plus.people.get” on ght Google Plus API, to get data such as:
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/?hl=en_GB#p/plus/v1/plus.people.get?userId=117841766777955842390&_h=1&
{
“kind”: “plus#person”,
“etag”: “\”_Ek1oAZn65JmcnNnmHdEAQCMkKA/b_1J-KLae0A7TJqD9lPo3ESI-_Q\””,
“gender”: “male”,
“objectType”: “person”,
“id”: “117841766777955842390”,
“displayName”: “Peter Smith”,
“name”: {
“familyName”: “Smith”,
“givenName”: “Peter”
},
“url”: “https://plus.google.com/117841766777955842390”,
“image”: {
“url”: “https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-06yJmZ9VFKI/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAA8w/rBzvyaUOYu4/photo.jpg?sz=50”,
“isDefault”: false
},
“organizations”: [
{
“name”: “DeVry University”,
“type”: “school”,
“endDate”: “1999”,
“primary”: false
},
{
“name”: “RTSI”,
“type”: “work”,
“primary”: false
}
],
“placesLived”: [
{
“value”: “Phoenix, AZ”,
“primary”: true
}
],
“isPlusUser”: true,
“circledByCount”: 53,
“verified”: false
}