How to get "account_id"

Below is the code from People API https://developers.google.com/people/v1/read-people documentation:

PeopleResource.GetRequest peopleRequest =
    peopleService.People.Get("account_id");

What is the account_id here?

[jskeet]

“If I want to get the details of particular person I need to get their account_id, looking for this id,”

It’s not clear what you’re asking, to be honest - but this isn’t likely to be the right place to ask, given the start of the November 17th comment:

This repo is for the .NET client libraries themselves; and unfortunately we don’t have a good understanding of most of the actual APIs.

We don’t know the details of the API you’re asking about, and you haven’t made it clear what you’re asking - we don’t know what you do know about the person you’re trying to look up.

Please see https://developers.google.com/people/support for support questions for the general API rather than the specific C# library implementation.

[chrisdunelm]

This repo is for the .NET client libraries themselves; and unfortunately we don’t have a good understanding of most of the actual APIs.

However, having said that… There’s a little more documentation here: https://developers.google.com/people/api/rest/v1/people/get The API explorer on that page let’s you experiment with the API which can be useful. So I tried:

• Executing with resourceName set to people/me
• This returned a resource with resourceName = people/1234567801234 (not actually this ID, but a numerical ID)
• So I then executed with resourceName set to that same people/1234567801234.
• This returned the same resource.

So it looks like account_id is a numeric ID for the user. I don’t know all the places where you get these IDs from, but results from calling people.connections.list definitely include them in resourceName fields.