Read your contacts from gmail with ruby

gistfile1.txt

# gem install contacts
# >> remove "require 'jcode' " in gdata gem, if on ruby 1.9

require 'rubygems'
require 'contacts'

CONTACTS_SCOPE = 'http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/'
CONTACTS_FEED = CONTACTS_SCOPE + 'contacts/default/full/?max-results=1000'

@client = GData::Client::Contacts.new
@client.clientlogin("[email protected]", "MY_PASS")

feed = @client.get(CONTACTS_FEED).to_xml; nil

# make it pretty :)
formatter         = REXML::Formatters::Pretty.new
formatter.compact = true
puts formatter.write(feed.root,"")