Hey everyone! I’m working on a project where I need to fetch contacts from Gmail accounts using PHP. I’ve been using the libgmailer.php library for this task, but I keep running into issues. Whenever I try to establish a connection and retrieve the contact data, I get this error message:
Connection failed: Gmail: Invalid request. (libgmailer: Gmail seems to have changed the URL again.)
I’m not sure if this is because the library is outdated or if I’m missing something in my implementation. Has anyone else encountered this problem? What would be the best approach to solve this? Should I switch to a different method for accessing Gmail contacts?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Been down this exact road. The libgmailer library broke permanently when Google killed their old contact API endpoints in 2021. That URL error you’re seeing? It’s the library’s death rattle - can’t find endpoints that don’t exist anymore. You want Google Contacts API v1 now, accessed through their official PHP SDK. Migration isn’t trivial since you’ll need proper OAuth 2.0 flow, but it’s your only reliable option. I wasted weeks trying to patch the old library before giving up and migrating properly. The new API actually gives you better contact data structure and error handling once you get past the OAuth hurdle.
That error screams deprecated library. Hit the same thing two years back on a client management system. The libgmailer.php library is dead - hasn’t been touched in years and Google completely revamped their auth system since then. You need to switch to the official Google People API. Yeah, it’s OAuth2 but way more secure. Took me about a day to get it working right, but it’s solid and won’t break every time Google pushes updates. Set up credentials in Google Cloud Console and grab their official PHP client library. The docs are decent once you get through the initial setup headache.
libgmailer is dead - Google changed their auth and broke it. I migrated off it last year and wish I’d done it sooner. The Google People API isn’t bad once OAuth’s working, just enable the right scopes in console or you’ll get weird permission errors.