how to get attachments from google+ api activities search? - google-plus

Question

In https://developers.google.com/+/api/latest/activities#object.attachments, there would have attachments in activities search response, but how to call it?
In here: http://code.google.com/apis/explorer/#_s=plus&_v=v1&_m=activities.search even I select all the fields section, there have no attachments.
The final call url here
https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/activities?maxResults=20&orderBy=recent
&query=keyword&fields=id%2Citems(access%2Cactor%2Caddress%2Cannotation%2CcrosspostSource%2Cgeocode%2Cid%2Ckind%2CplaceId%2CplaceName%2Cplaceholder%2Cpublished%2Cradius%2Ctitle%2Cupdated%2Curl%2Cverb)%2Ckind%2CnextLink%2CnextPageToken%2CselfLink%2Ctitle%2Cupdated&pp=1&key=APIKEY
So, how to get attachments?

Answer 1

The attachments will be and a json array nested under the object property.
Here's a sample request:
https://www.googleapis.com/plus/v1/activities?query=google&sortBy=recent&maxResults=20&key=GOOGLE_API_KEY
View it from your browser, and look for "attachments" in the response.
You should see something like this for activities that contain attachments:
"attachments": [
{
"objectType": "article",
"displayName": "Google taking a...",
"content": "insert content..."
},
{
"objectType": "photo",
"image": {
"url": "http://images0-focus-opensocial.g...",
"type": "image/jpeg"
},
"fullImage": {
"url": "http://thenextweb.com/wp-content/...",
"type": "image/jpeg",
"height": 199,
"width": 300
}
}
]
Here's an example of how you can use the activities.search API and extract image attachments:
https://gist.github.com/1296676