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Create and Update a Google Contact
Create a Google contact, set their organization and read the updated contact.
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Create a Google contact, set their organization and read the updated contact.
Setup
Enable the Google People API and authorize the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/contacts scope. In Open Flow, store a Google OAuth access token in a secret Variable and bind Auth Token on all four HTTP Request nodes. Access tokens expire; refresh the token externally and update the Variable. Run with the person’s given and family names and their organization name, title and domain.
In n8n, connect the same Google Contacts OAuth2 credential to the Google Contacts and HTTP Request nodes and edit Set contact details. Run one format.
Behavior
Each run creates a contact, reads its current contact-source version, replaces its organization with the supplied values and reads it back. An ETag conflict or any failed step stops the run. A write whose response is lost may have succeeded; inspect Google Contacts before retrying. The workflow does not retry or roll back writes, and each run can create another contact.
Inspiration & credits
Changes to the source
- Replace example names and organization with inputs. Read the contact-source ETag and include it when updating, as required by the People API.
- Verify the returned contact and its organization. The n8n update uses HTTP Request with the Google Contacts credential.
Adapted from Create, update and get a contact in Google Contacts in Zie619/n8n-workflows. The matching n8n community listing credits Harshil Agrawal. The original template does not state a separate license.
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