Create Contact with Google Contacts API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Create Contact with the Google Contacts API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Create Contact action
1. Connect your Google Contacts account
2. Select one or more Contact Fields
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Create Contact on Google Contacts

Description:Creates a contact. [See the documentation](https://developers.google.com/people/api/rest/v1/people/createContact)

Version:0.1.0

Key:google_contacts-create-contact

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Code#

import common from "../common/base.mjs";

export default {
  ...common,
  key: "google_contacts-create-contact",
  name: "Create Contact",
  description: "Creates a contact. [See the documentation](https://developers.google.com/people/api/rest/v1/people/createContact)",
  version: "0.1.0",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    ...common.props,
    personFields: {
      propDefinition: [
        common.props.googleContacts,
        "updatePersonFields",
      ],
      label: "Contact Fields",
      description: "Contact sections to include",
      reloadProps: true,
    },
  },
  async additionalProps() {
    return this.getPersonFieldProps(this.personFields);
  },
  methods: {
    ...common.methods,
    async processResults(client) {
      const requestBody = this.getRequestBody(this.personFields, this);

      return this.googleContacts.createContact(client, {
        requestBody,
        personFields: this.getPersonFields(this.personFields),
      });
    },
    emitSummary($, results) {
      $.export("$summary", `Successfully created contact with ID ${results.resourceName.split("/").pop()}`);
    },
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Google Contacts	`googleContacts`	`app`	This component uses the Google Contacts app.
Contact Fields	`personFields`	`string[]`	Select a value from the drop down menu:`namesemailAddressesphoneNumbersaddressesbiographiesbirthdayscalendarUrlsgendersurls`

Authentication#

Google Contacts uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Google Contacts account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Google Contacts and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Google Contacts API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

profileemailhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonlyhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/contactshttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.other.readonly