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What's the difference between google data api and contacts api?


Asked by Aydin Montgomery on Dec 04, 2021 FAQ



The Google Contacts API is an older XML API that provides access to a Google GData Contact Kind object. This object is part of the Google Data API and was also formerly used to represent things like businesses and organizations for use in places like Google Maps.
Keeping this in consideration,
Google has been slowly deprecating everything that uses the Google Data API in recent years as they migrate to more modern APIs for their services. So, it comes at no surprise that they’ve set an official end to the Google Contacts API.
In respect to this, The Google People API has three separate processes for returning contacts depending on what type of contact the person is: Directory Contacts, Connections, and Other Contacts. Let’s take a look at these one-by-one. Directory contacts are people who exist inside the user’s GSuite organization.
In addition,
The Google Contacts API allows manipulation of Contact Entry implementing the GData Contact kind element with some restrictions described in the Reference Guide. Version 3 of the API introduces new structured data formats for the contact's name and structured postal address fields.
Consequently,
The Google Maps API is for putting maps into your web pages. The Google Places API is for looking up what business is at a given address / location. Is an app and API the same thing?