retrieve email address from inbox

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Services as linkedin, facebook, etc, can import email addresses(contacts) from my Inbox if I provide my gmail/yahoo password. How are they doing it? Can I do it too, using PHP?

Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/326379/php-apis-for-hotmail-gmail-and-yahoo — Sampson, Dec 22 '09 at 19:27

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 22 '09 at 19:27

The Google Contacts Data API allows you to own your own contact data. We expect the API to be useful for a big range of applications. For example, developers can use it to:

Import a user's Google contacts into their web or desktop application

Export their application's contact list to Google

Write sync applications for mobile devices or popular, desktop-based contact management applications

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 22 '09 at 19:27

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Yes you can. You need imap extension to make your live easier. Here is sample example howto do this for gmail. Yahoo should be similer if not same.

http://davidwalsh.name/gmail-php-imap

Hope that helps. Cheers

Edit: Got questions wrong.sry

answered Dec 22 '09 at 19:27

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 22 '09 at 19:24

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You can use libgmailer for accessing Gmail in PHP

answered Dec 22 '09 at 19:24

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 22 '09 at 19:30

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Use the google contacts API.

answered Dec 22 '09 at 19:30

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score 0 · Answer 5 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

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ContactGrabber looks like it should work for GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail and other services.

A PHP API for retrieving Mail From Yahoo, GMail, Hotmail

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answered Dec 22 '09 at 19:35

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