How is it done when sites have an 'import address book' from yahoo, gmail, aol, and msn..?
Its supposed to take their contacts and send an email invitation to join their website. I'm not sure how to grab someones address book? Or really the mechanics behind this.
how is this done?
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how is this done?
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one that works like this:
http://www.improsys.com/contacts/index.php
I am only interested in grabbing email addresses though.
http://www.improsys.com/contacts/index.php
I am only interested in grabbing email addresses though.
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
Hmmm... presumably, it logs in to Hotmail or whatever for you, actually accessing the website and submitting the username and password in form information. Then it would parse the webpage that lists the contacts. I don't know the actual code required to do an HTTP request, but it can be done. I would never give any website my password though. How do you know they don't save it? And then someone might go snooping around your account. The way gmail does it is much better. They get you to export your contact information from another address to CVS, then you submit that, and its that which is parsed. Much less of a security problem. How exactly you do that is more of a coding problem than a "theory and design" problem, whci I'm sure you can work out with a little research.
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alex.barylski
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I reckon it's done via SOAP...
http://code.google.com/apis.html
Not exactly what your after, but it might be a start
HTH
http://code.google.com/apis.html
Not exactly what your after, but it might be a start
HTH