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Get Hotmail Contacts

Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:20 pm
by ATLChris
I am trying to write a script that will allow people to invite friends from their address book to my site. I already have Gmail and Yahoo working through their respective API's, but I am having major issues with Hotmail (Live). I tried using their Live API but it only outputs email hashes to match emails, it doesn't actually allow you to access your contacts.

Does anyone know of a script or a way of accessing Hotmail contacts? Hotmail use to have a Contacts API, but that has been depreciated.

Maybe connect through an Exchange server and scrape the contacts? Curl/scrape the website?

I can't figure anything out and it has been 5 days. I am about to rip my hair out. Why doesn't dumbass Microsoft have API access to contacts anymore????

Re: Get Hotmail Contacts

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:13 am
by ATLChris
No replies? Someone has to be able to help me with this.

Please, anyone!

Re: Get Hotmail Contacts

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:52 am
by Apollo
No experience with this myself, but if it's been haunting you for several days, I'd indeed give it a try and curl/scrape the damn thing. Ugly, but works, and independent of retarded MS APIs :)