Retrieve contacts with Google Contacts API (Python)

I recently registered an account on codecademy. It was so fun that I completed all Python courses in one day! They also have a course for Python API which I also completed.

As an experiment, I thought of trying to retrieve contacts using GMail API. It was really easy. Here are the steps and requirements:

1. Python 2.7 installation
2. Google Data Python Library installation (run setup.py install) from https://developers.google.com/gdata/articles/python_client_lib
3. Download contacts_example.py from Contacts API v3
4. Create test account on GMail
5. Run contacts_example.py. You will be prompted for username and password.

As a last step you wil want to customize the script to fit your needs. Have fun!