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I might be missing something but I'm trying to implement a contacts retrieval mechanism akin to the one that is offered by Google for Yahoo and Hotmail. Both APIs seem to require the user to actually go to their sites to log in. The documentation is really convoluted for both. I was hoping someone has done this and can point me to a simple way (if there is one) to allow the user to log in directly in my app and then for me to go and fetch their contacts for them (preferably in XML, but JSON would also do nicely).

I currently have a Perl script that goes and gets the gmail stuff and works very nicely. I was (maybe wildly optimistically) hoping that Yahoo and Microsoft would have similarly useful mechanisms.

Anujith
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Yevgeny Simkin
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  • Should be. I never actually log on to the yahoo/hotmail to import my contacts in linkedin/facebook. – Broken Link Jul 24 '09 at 22:25
  • possible duplicate of [A PHP API for retrieving Mail From Yahoo, GMail, Hotmail](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/463410/a-php-api-for-retrieving-mail-from-yahoo-gmail-hotmail) – wordpresrox Feb 12 '14 at 06:10

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Check out Open Inviter: http://openinviter.com. It has Yahoo, Hotmail, and many more :)

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  • this does, indeed, look very promising. Checking into it now. – Yevgeny Simkin Jul 24 '09 at 23:08
  • yeah, this is totally fabulous. Their documentation is really shoddy, but the product works exactly as advertised. Server permissions may need to be tweaked to allow the php to examine the directories it needs to look at. – Yevgeny Simkin Jul 25 '09 at 01:08
  • Awesome. I haven't actually tried it myself (other than the demo) but that's good to hear that it works :D – Michael Mior Jul 25 '09 at 04:02
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    To anyone reading this (2012), OpenInviter appears to be currently broken (atleast with regards to Hotmail, LinkedIn etc). – Homunculus Reticulli Nov 06 '12 at 12:05
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Seems http://openinviter.com domain is no more. There are few other providers available in market out of which I liked https://socialinviter.com, give it a try.

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