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Mark this library as 'not maintained' #54

Open k-funk opened 7 years ago

k-funk commented 7 years ago

Seems like a lot of people are still landing upon this library and expecting it to be maintained. An example is: Google Search: google photos api -> picasa api -> docs that point to gdata

It would be helpful to put the status of this repo into the README.md so people use clients that are (https://github.com/google/google-api-python-client).

lyrubiano5 commented 7 years ago

But google-api-python-client doesn't support google contacts.

gfairchild commented 6 years ago

API interaction with Google Contacts is supported using the Google People API, which is indeed supported in google-api-python-client (see this example code).

arlojeremy commented 6 years ago

Thank you! I found my way to this library from this page.

I didn't notice that it is over 10 years old (although my first clue should have been no mention of Python 3).

It looks like a modern Google API page. I can't imagine why it's still up.

edit: the main page of that link does have a big read warning on it, but the subpages don't. So if you land on any of them (say, via search or an outside hard link) there's no warning.

mscheper commented 6 years ago

I've just spent hours trying to work out why the contacts_example.py isn't working (raising 'gdata.client.ClientLoginFailed: Server responded to ClientLogin request: 404'). I now suspect it's using an auth protocol that is no longer supported. Can anybody confirm this? If so, I'll submit a pull request for a change to the README.md file, to make it clearer that this is deprecated code.

This repo is linked to from https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/, which I landed on when I did a Google search for 'python Google Contacts'. I guess the note at the top of that page was supposed to indicate that it's an old API, but since I'm not interested in profile information, nor writing contact information, I didn't think it mattered to me. This repo ought to have a warning, in case other people make the same mistake.