I'm trying to use google People API to search a person by her/his name field. Here is the code sample:
service = build('people', 'v1', credentials=creds)
request = service.people().searchContacts(pageSize=10, query="A", readMask="names")
print(request.body) # results in None, but there is a lot of contacts in my list starting from "A".
I used the following links:
https://developers.google.com/people/v1/contacts#python
https://googleapis.github.io/google-api-python-client/docs/dyn/people_v1.people.html#get
https://developers.google.com/people/quickstart/python
and the SCOPE is https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts.readonly.
I need a way to return a list of contacts using name mask (for ex, person with the name "Foo bar" should be found using "f", "F", "foo", and so on).
You aren't executing your request, only referencing it.
In Python, a method without a defined return will always return None.
As you are not making the request, no return value is being obtained and so you are seeing none displayed.
You need to execute the request like so:
service.people().searchContacts(pageSize=10, query="A", readMask="names").execute()
Also, the response object has no property body, so you will need to use
print(request.results)
to view the response text.