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I would like to (keep) using Google Contacts as my primary hub for contact info. However, I would benefit greatly from the ability to link with a URL to a particular person directly from various other apps. To aid in various "CRM" activities too.
There is no immediate way to see a URL when opening a person. Does anyone know of another way? (I would be willing to even make a regular export of contacts via Zapier or something to get the URL, if that is what it takes.)
In the "old" Contacts, if you click a contact, you'll get a string added to the URL like so:
https://www.google.com/contacts/#contact/32a3998f8ee63eb0
That'll bring you directly to the contact record if you put it in a link.
With the Contact Preview turned on, the same link will bring you into Contacts with the modal window for that contact brought up. However, I don't see an easy way to get that ID. Even viewing the source doesn't really offer any clues. That's not surprising, however, as it is still a product preview.
To have a link that opens a specific contact in the new version of Google Contacts the URL needs to be:
https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cpreview=1#contact/[contactid]
such as: https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cpreview=1#contact/1a184eb8b1105cc
the old contacts url would be in this example: https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cplus=1#contact/1a184eb8b1105cc
?cplus needs to be changed to ?cpreview
Go to https://contacts.google.com/
Search for specific contact required
Click contact to open contact modal window
Right click modal window
Select Inspect element from drop down menu
in Element code, select the element string (without quotes) following "data-sourceid" EXAMPLE ...
add string at end of this modified G Contacts URL: https://contacts.google.com/contact/ EXAMPLE https://contacts.google.com/contact/12a34bc56789de
This link will direct link to contacts and open the modal window for that specific Contact
The new contacts interface is all you have now, so I used the answer from Indy. In Chrome: right click the contact's display and choose "Inspect"
The edit window comes up; use the key command "Ctrl + F" to initiate find in that window.
Type "data-so"... which is all that's needed to focus on the "data-sourceid".
Double clicking on the number following allows you to copy the id number; append it to https:contacts.google.com/contact/
I'm using it in google spreadsheets, allowing the contacts to be called up simply by clicking on the cell to which the link is.
By making "blank" or unfinished contacts, and list them in google spreadsheets, allows ease of entering new numbers upon arrival, to which then more powerful web and programming access is given to the simple built in contacts database.
Try using the link to the old google contacts site. Then it's easy to see the contact ID.
This question accumulated quite a lot of answers over time, so I think maybe an up-to-date recap would be useful.
If you already have a contact ID, you can build a URL with the following structure -
https://contacts.google.com/contact/CONTACT_ID
Thing is, Google is phasing out the Contacts API in favor of the People API - so I imagen that many people are facing (like me) the need to build a link using the person ID. Turns out the idea is the same -
https://contacts.google.com/person/PERSON_ID
Notice that the People API returns a field called resourceName, and that the value is the person ID prefixed with people/ (e.g. people/c858934384269370260). So by splitting the resourceName and taking the last part you can extract the ID you need to build the URL.
Similar to how the data-sourceid HTML attribute contains the contact ID and can be used to extract the ID and manually build a link (see Indy's answer), there's also the data-id attribute containing the person ID, which can be used to do the same. I don't care for manual labour, so I created a TamperMonkey script that can be used to add a little "open link" button to every contact entry. Looks something like this -
The past happened. Things were different, and today they are even differenter.
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feel free to read the many other answers that explain how things used to be.
This worked for me https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cpreview=1#contact/[contactid]
Example https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/?cpreview=1#contact/286E4A310F1EEADC
Note the [contactid] is the Hexadecimal conversion of the Contact ID that you will find if you inspect the contact link c2913347583522826972 (see HTML snippet below) I ran that through this Hex converter tool to get 286E4A310F1EEADC which works in the URL above to show the correct contact.
Zapier gives you the Decimal Contact ID, so if you want to create a URL you will need to convert it to Hex first with a tool. I am asking a question on this as the contactid is a 19 digit decimal number.
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Previous URLs posted here have stopped working sometime recently. Through trial and error, I found that the new URL format is this:
https://contacts.google.com/u/0/contact/[contactID]
Edit: I just noticed that others here have posted this already. Don't know how I missed them.
I'll add something else I discovered, in case anyone needs it. If you have multiple accounts signed in, and don't want to rely on the order of sign-in to link to a contact in the correct account, use this format:
https://www.google.com/contacts/u/0/contact/[contactID]?authuser=email@domain.com
Note that even though the URL contains /u/0/, depending on what follows "authuser", it may get re-written to something like /u/1/ or /u/2/ , etc.
This will do it as long as the modal is visible. Would really like this to be a simple Chrome Extension that adds a copy-to-clipboard button to the modal when it loads.
Right click anywhere and inspect the modal, copy paste, press enter, and the url should show up. Type url if it doesn't.
// https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18626844/convert-a-large-integer-to-a-hex-string-in-javascript
// Collin Anderson (https://stackoverflow.com/users/131881/collin-anderson)
const dec2hex = (str) => { // .toString(16) only works up to 2^53
var dec = str.toString().split(''), sum = [], hex = [], i, s
while(dec.length){
s = 1 * dec.shift()
for(i = 0; s || i < sum.length; i++){
s += (sum[i] || 0) * 10
sum[i] = s % 16
s = (s - sum[i]) / 16
}
}
while(sum.length){
hex.push(sum.pop().toString(16))
}
return hex.join('')
}
const url = `https://contacts.google.com/contact/${dec2hex(contactModal.getAttribute('data-personid').slice(1))}`
Apparently, in the new version of Google Contacts, you can use the contact id in the URL, like this:
(1 being the identifier associated with my own contact, opening this URL displays my contact info directly.)
Another example:
https://contacts.google.com/1210af2108fe8811, for the following contact info (JSON):
{
"gd$etag": "\"QX05eDVSLit7I2A9XRBbFkoIQA0.\"",
"id": {
"$t": "http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/myemailaddress%40gmail.com/base/1210af2108fe8811"
},
[ ... ]
}
1 gives me "contact not found".