Get a photo for a shared contact
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To get a photo for a contact, send an HTTP GET request to the
photo link of the contact:
GET https://google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/DOMAIN/PHOTO_LINK
Replace the following:
DOMAIN: The URL for your domain—for example,
example.com.PHOTO_LINK: A unique numerical value that
represents the photo link for the shared contact—for example, c9012de.
The server returns an HTTP 200 OK status code and the photo. If a
contact doesn't have a photo, then the photo link element doesn't have a
gd:etag attribute. The gd:etag element lets you refer to a specific
version of a photo.
For example, to get the latest version of a photo for a contact with the
following element:
<link rel="http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#photo" type="image/*"
href="https://google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/example.com/c9012de"/>
Send the following HTTP request:
GET https://google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/example.com/c9012de
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Last updated 2025-08-28 UTC.
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