title: Pulling Gmail's 'Other Contacts' group via the Google Contacts API
body: <p>I'm trying to pull my Gmail contacts, so I can auto-complete on the 3,000 or so contacts I have within Gmail.  Using the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/developers_guide_protocol.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google Contacts Data API</a>, I'm able to get a list of (1) default contacts and (2) groups.  </p>
  
  <p>However, (1) the default contacts (<code>http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full</code>) only pulls contacts in my 'My Contacts' group, and (2) when I look for my groups (through the <a href="http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/1.0/developers_guide_js.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">interactive samples</a> Google provides), 'Other Contacts' is not an available group to pull from.</p>
  
  <p>This leads to a pretty terrible auto-complete experience: I've got about 100 'My Contacts' members, compared to 3,000 contacts in 'Other Contacts'; I can only imagine that other Gmail users are in roughly the same boat.</p>
  
  <p>I've looked around the interwebs, but haven't found much:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=1092941" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google explaining directory vs private contacts</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&amp;answer=97952" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Google explaining default contact groups</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/google-contacts-api/browse_thread/thread/4a586913901eb46b/617b79d96caf51ed" rel="nofollow noreferrer">A similar complaint on the Google Contacts API google group from 2008</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>So far, my backup is just asking for username/password and scraping (or using IMAP).  Is there a better way out there?</p>