Memorial entry / google-plus-api

Google+ API

Shutdown Verified social Google — Verified
You had lingered long after the party ended, still authenticating forgotten logins and social widgets nobody wanted to touch. The lights finally came on and everyone pretended they had already left.

You had exposed Google+ social data and sign-in surfaces before Google's accelerated shutdown closed the API in 2019.

Evidence

official Announced

This source records when Google+ API was shut down and how the provider framed the end of service.

Source

https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/03/expediting-changes-to-google-plus.html

Archived docs

https://web.archive.org/web/20181201000000/https://developers.google.com/+/api/

Contributor note

You outlived the timeline somehow, which felt rude and impressive.

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@MdSagorMunshi on

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