# Retrieving Google account info

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-google-account-info/122423>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 7, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-google-account-info/122423 "2007-12-07T14:54:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![srinathbtech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@srinathbtech](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/srinathbtech)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/retrieving-google-account-info/122423/1 "2007-12-07T14:54:51Z")

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hi ,  
i have integrated acts\_as\_google\_account plugin in my application,  
and i had succesfully got  
authenticated to google proxy with my gmail accounts

and now the problem is ,  
i want to retrieve users firstname and lastname from google accounts  
where the users had created during new account registration ,so that i  
can save only those firstname and lastname in my application

is there any API for this ?

thanks in advance ,