Can I create a Google account programmatically?

Question

Does anybody know if via the google api in java I can create google accounts programmatically.

Answer 1

Yes

(ish)

The Admin SDK Directory API allows you to create accounts which work with Google tools (Gmail, Calendar, etc.) but are not @gmail.com / @googlemail.com accounts.

This is used by companies to automate creation of accounts for online google tools when new users are added to networks and similar scenarios.

User management is documented here.

This replaces the provisioning API which was deprecated in 2013.

Answer 2

The real answer is YES.

The fact is that we don't know (yet) how.

The proof is that an account can be created from any android device without any captcha, without a phone number and without an email.

So the secret is inside android codebase.

Answer 3

YES...

Actually you can do that. You can write CUrl scripts and can use different APIs available to break the captcha. Breaking a captcha is key thing here.

Answer 4

I am going to assume that you aren't telling us your use case which is really to have a convenient way to use google logins on your site (because that's the closest you'll get and be legit). I would check out using OpenID in the same way SO does.

Answer 5

It depends on your definition of create account...

it is possible to create an account inside a google group, or domain. By using the code below you can create accounts for your google group/domain. For this scenario YES you CAN create a google account.

However, if you want to create a google account as in @gmail.com... I really have not found a way to do it programatically.

Here is the link of where to download the google api, and the Documentation. https://developers.google.com/google-apps/provisioning/#creating_a_user_account

Good Luck.

import sample.appsforyourdomain.AppsForYourDomainClient;

AppsForYourDomainClient client = new AppsForYourDomainClient(email, password, domain);
client.createUser(String username, String givenName, String familyName, String password)

Answer 6

NO

The only possible way to do this would be to use a web automation framework. Python is great for web automation using tools such as mechanize. I've never done it in Java, but you should do a google search for java programmatic web browser or java web automation.

On top of that you would have to incorporate an OCR package to beat the captcha.

There is a reason that google, nor anyone else, allows the programmatic creation of accounts. Spammers would have a field day. Within days there would be no valid accounts left for any new users to use. In short, it would be a disaster.