---
title: Google+ API Released
date: 2011-09-16 08:42:42
permalink: https://lesterchan.net/blog/2011/09/16/google-api-released/
author: Lester Chan
categories:
  - Programming
tags:
  - API
  - Google
  - Plus
---

Google+ API is [finally released](http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2011/09/getting-started-on-google-api.html). This initial API release is focused on public data only (it lets you read information that people have shared publicly on Google+).

Google+ API methods are RESTful HTTP requests which return JSON responses and it uses OAuth 2 for secure trusted access to user data.

Here are some sample codes from the Google’s blog post:

```

GET https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/people/108189587050871927619?key=yourAPIKey
```

And it will return:

```

{
	"kind": "plus#person",
	"id": "108189587050871927619",
	"displayName": "Chris Chabot",
	"image": {
		"url": "https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-cQNLOQzkGpE/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAEjo/M9_pXL-ra4Q/photo.jpg"
	},
	"organizations":
	[
		{
			"name": "Google+ Developer Relations",
			"title": "Developer Advocate & Manager",
			"type": "work"
		}
	]
}
```

Check out the new Google+ Developer Website at [developers.google.com/+/](https://developers.google.com/+/) for more information. There are also a few [beta libraries already available](https://developers.google.com/+/downloads) (.NET, GWT, Java, Objective C, PHP, Python & Ruby) from Google.

Official Site: [Google+ Developer Site](https://developers.google.com/+/)  
Official Blog Post: [Getting Started on the Google+ API](http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2011/09/getting-started-on-google-api.html)