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Ability to lookup google plus profile from email address #64

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Using the new people search 
(https://developers.google.com/+/api/latest/people/search#try-it), type in your 
own email address and hit fetch

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It should return the google profile for the specified email address, assuming 
that your privacy settings do not hide you from profile search

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
It returns an empty result

Especially for contacts with common names like "Adam Smith", it is almost 
impossible to find someone. If you have an email address for them, say from 
your yahoo mail or from facebook, you should be able to use this to find that 
person.

This seems to work in the google plus UI, but not through the current search 
API. If this is already possible through some special syntax (ie put email: at 
the front of the query string), please let me know. If this is not meant to be 
implemented in the current form, please consider this as a feature request.

Thanks!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by david.kinghorn on 4 Oct 2011 at 8:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by chirags@google.com on 5 Oct 2011 at 4:24

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I would LOVE to see this feature too :-)

Since i am currently developing a social module for Moodle (LMS) and i only 
have the emails of the users available to me as reference by which i can search 
for their public post on Google plus.

Original comment by nadavkav on 7 Oct 2011 at 2:15

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It does not provide search by email..
If does than how ?

Original comment by er.onkar...@gmail.com on 9 Apr 2012 at 8:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I too would like to see this function, Facebook already allows this via their 
api email token.

Original comment by jasontd...@gmail.com on 18 May 2012 at 3:07

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Does anyone know if this is a feature yet and of so what would be the 
parameters to search for the Google plus users details via email address?

Original comment by tickletr...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2012 at 6:44

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Google has not announced any addition of such a feature.

Original comment by 4braham on 17 Jun 2012 at 8:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Would also like to see this... Don't let other social sites keep ahead of 
Google...

Original comment by mdickman...@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2012 at 11:30

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Guys, please, make this happen

Original comment by nis.stal...@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2012 at 4:49

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
as far as I can tell right now this isn't working anywhere, not even in the G+ 
UI in the browser (Firefox 15, W7). The iOS app even states in the search field 
"search by name or email", but it still doesn't work for email.

Original comment by ao9new...@gmail.com on 17 Jul 2012 at 4:10

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I would potentially upgrade my account for a google+ integration...   currently 
you have replaced my G+ buttons in gmail...   i would like them back?

Original comment by supp...@promotional-products.org on 23 Aug 2012 at 6:45

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Original comment by t...@google.com on 7 Dec 2012 at 4:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I would be happy to enter an email hash if needed like on gravatar. Searching 
by email is really needed.

Original comment by Xeoncross on 11 Dec 2012 at 6:32

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
If you enter an email associated with a g+ account into a google contacts card, 
it will bind to the profile associated with the email.

Original comment by peter.al...@gmail.com on 1 Jan 2013 at 5:06

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Original comment by t...@google.com on 5 Jun 2013 at 1:36

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It looks like Google simply doesn't want to steal users away from Gravatar ;) 

Seriously, any service in the second decade of the 21st century which aspires 
to be a global account service (and Google is not the only one - there's 
Facebook and others) must have an anonymous API for retrieving basic 
information about its users, including the profile picture (of course, privacy 
settings permitting). For an example of how to do it right, without leaking 
e-mail addresses for spammers to collect, see how Gravatar does it: 
http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/ (and 
http://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/profiles/).

Original comment by ivo...@gmail.com on 10 Aug 2013 at 8:50

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It will be awesome to make a custom notification in android, with a profile 
photo..

Original comment by bennsand...@gmail.com on 4 Sep 2013 at 5:45

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Original comment by t...@google.com on 6 Jun 2014 at 9:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I am trying to set up a group within my workplace and need to send invites but 
I cant because without be able to see the email address I can not guarantee I 
have the right person, especially if its a common name.  This enhancement is so 
important - come on Google.

Original comment by sue.dimb...@travisperkins.co.uk on 14 Jul 2014 at 4:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Original comment by t...@google.com on 18 Sep 2014 at 2:20

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I would like to see this feature too. When some organisation uses Google 
account, it would be great to look up the profile using the email within that 
org.
Please let me know if it is possible.

Original comment by kanp...@gmail.com on 19 Sep 2014 at 12:41

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
http://www.ninjaromeo.com/search-add-friends-google-plus-email/ as long as the 
user's settings are on private, you should be able to find them

Original comment by lifer...@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2014 at 2:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Any information that is publicly available should be available to an app.  This 
typically includes user image!  Yet, I cannot seem to find a way to get an 
image using a user's email address.

Original comment by csga5...@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2015 at 9:56