Souce code for deleting Google/Gmail Contact Groups

Over a year ago I posted a little utility for deleting unwanted groups out of your Gmail Contacts.

Blog post here: http://blog.scrappydog.com/2009/01/deleting-4000-gmail-groups-or-repairing.html

Application install here: http://scrappydog.com/GoogleGroupCleanup/publish.htm

I wrote this for my own use because a bad replication tool had created 10,000+ bogus groups in my Contacts, and I REALLY didn't want to delete them by hand!

Apparently, it has saved a fair number of other people's bacon as well...

Today "Ben" asked if I could post the source code for my tool? And so here it is (not much to it):

using System;
using Google.GData.Contacts;

namespace GoogleGroupCleanup
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            try
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Google Gmail Group Cleanup Tool");
                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.WriteLine("Written by: Eric Bowen (googlegroupcleanup@scrappydog.com)");
                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.WriteLine("This application is provided WITHOUT any guarantee.  Use at your own risk.");
                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.WriteLine("This application will delete ALL groups from your Gmail account.");
                Console.WriteLine("It will NOT delete any of your contacts or email.");
                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.WriteLine(
                    "This application deletes up to 1,000 groups at a time.  If you have more than 1,000 groups to delete you will need to run it multiple times.");


                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.Write("Enter Google email address (this will not be stored): ");
                string email = Console.ReadLine();

                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.Write("Enter Google password (this will not be stored): ");
                string password = Console.ReadLine();

                var service = new ContactsService("gmail-group-cleanup");
                service.setUserCredentials(email, password);

                var groupQuery = new GroupsQuery(GroupsQuery.CreateGroupsUri("default"));
                groupQuery.NumberToRetrieve = 1000;
                var groupsFeed = service.Query(groupQuery);

                int counter = 0;
                foreach (GroupEntry group in groupsFeed.Entries)
                {
                    Console.WriteLine(group.Content.Content);
                    group.Delete();
                    counter++;
                }

                Console.WriteLine();
                Console.WriteLine(counter.ToString() + " groups deleted");
                Console.WriteLine();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Exception:");
                Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
                Console.WriteLine();
            }
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}