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Asked: 2026-06-05T03:38:44+00:00

I’ve been trying to use the Google Plus API (how they managed to make

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I’ve been trying to use the Google Plus API (how they managed to make this difficult is beyond me), and I’m trying to get all of a user’s comments (or at least the most recent ones).

Unfortunately, Google has decided to make this inaccessible through one call, so I’ve been trying to access all of a user’s activities, and the list of comments for each. To do this, I’ve been using the google_plus gem.

I can pull up a user, no problem. However, for each user I pull up, their activities seem to be nil. Moreover, if I try to fetch an activity by id, that also returns nil. For example, I’ve tried to hit this activity using an id of 107200121064812799857, but I get nothing.

I’ve even tried using Google’s API testing tool to try to hit this activity (using the aforementioned ID), and it can’t even seem to find it.

Can someone explain what’s going on here? Maybe I’m not using the right ID, or something.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve even tried using Google’s API testing tool to try to hit this activity (using the aforementioned ID)
    The comments.list API requires an activity id, but you’re passing the Google+ profile id.

    You will need to pass a valid activity id when using the comments.list api.

    For this post on Google+: https://plus.google.com/107200121064812799857/posts/GkyGQPLi6KD

    • The user id is: 107200121064812799857
    • The activity id (used by the API) is: z13qd5zouuebcpauy23tuftwdsylxflvs

    Here’s how you can list comments for that activity id:
    https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/plus/v1/plus.comments.list?activityId=z13qd5zouuebcpauy23tuftwdsylxflvs&alt=json

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