Provides information about a person by specifying a resource name. Use people/me to indicate the authenticated user. The request returns a 400 error if 'personFields' is not specified.

Scopes

You will need authorization for at least one of the following scopes to make a valid call:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/directory.readonly
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.addresses.read
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.birthday.read
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.emails.read
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.gender.read
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.organization.read
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/user.phonenumbers.read
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile

If unset, the scope for this method defaults to https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonly. You can set the scope for this method like this: people1 --scope <scope> people get ...

Required Scalar Argument

  • <resource-name> (string)
    • Required. The resource name of the person to provide information about. - To get information about the authenticated user, specify people/me. - To get information about a google account, specify people/{account_id}. - To get information about a contact, specify the resource name that identifies the contact as returned by people.connections.list.

Optional Output Flags

The method's return value a JSON encoded structure, which will be written to standard output by default.

  • -o out
    • out specifies the destination to which to write the server's result to. It will be a JSON-encoded structure. The destination may be - to indicate standard output, or a filepath that is to contain the received bytes. If unset, it defaults to standard output.

Optional Method Properties

You may set the following properties to further configure the call. Please note that -p is followed by one or more key-value-pairs, and is called like this -p k1=v1 k2=v2 even though the listing below repeats the -p for completeness.

  • -p person-fields=string

    • Required. A field mask to restrict which fields on the person are returned. Multiple fields can be specified by separating them with commas. Valid values are: * addresses * ageRanges * biographies * birthdays * calendarUrls * clientData * coverPhotos * emailAddresses * events * externalIds * genders * imClients * interests * locales * locations * memberships * metadata * miscKeywords * names * nicknames * occupations * organizations * phoneNumbers * photos * relations * sipAddresses * skills * urls * userDefined

  • -p request-mask-include-field=string

    • Required. Comma-separated list of person fields to be included in the response. Each path should start with person.: for example, person.names or person.photos.

  • -p sources=string

    • Optional. A mask of what source types to return. Defaults to READ_SOURCE_TYPE_PROFILE and READ_SOURCE_TYPE_CONTACT if not set.

Optional General Properties

The following properties can configure any call, and are not specific to this method.

  • -p $-xgafv=string

    • V1 error format.

  • -p access-token=string

    • OAuth access token.

  • -p alt=string

    • Data format for response.

  • -p callback=string

    • JSONP

  • -p fields=string

    • Selector specifying which fields to include in a partial response.

  • -p key=string

    • API key. Your API key identifies your project and provides you with API access, quota, and reports. Required unless you provide an OAuth 2.0 token.

  • -p oauth-token=string

    • OAuth 2.0 token for the current user.

  • -p pretty-print=boolean

    • Returns response with indentations and line breaks.

  • -p quota-user=string

    • Available to use for quota purposes for server-side applications. Can be any arbitrary string assigned to a user, but should not exceed 40 characters.

  • -p upload-type=string

    • Legacy upload protocol for media (e.g. "media", "multipart").

  • -p upload-protocol=string

    • Upload protocol for media (e.g. "raw", "multipart").