We have been working on a set of scripts to grab contacts from popular email and community sites. We released it under GPL yesterday.
PHPClasses.org actually found it very interesting and flagged it as notable! Here’s what they wrote about Contact Graber:
Extensive package that can be used to grab user contact lists from the most important e-mail and social networking sites: Yahoo, Gmail, MSN Hotmail, Rediff, Orkut and MySpace.
Kudos to Vishal, Janak, Pravin and Tapan for bringing this to life! If you are building something where you want to allow people to fetch their contacts from Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, Rediff, Orkut or MySpace, and then use them on your site, go ahead and try this out! Feedback and contributions are welcome!
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Very interesting. I was really surprised to know that it is that easy. I hope you will come up with more such valuable add-ons.
Dear Shantanu,
Well, it wasn’t that easy.
Kudos to the development team.
:Vishal
So Vishal what was the most difficult part?
Getting it roled out was the most difficult part
Orkut was most difficult to get through, then MySpace and Rediff was the easiest of all 3.
SourceForge Link - https://sourceforge.net/projects/contactgrabber
Freshmeat Link - http://freshmeat.net/projects/contactgrabber/
has it been tested on windows
Very interesting.can you know same project in asp.net or asp ????
Hi Shailesh,
The project is open source. You are free to make a .Net version of it! We would be happy to link to you if you make a .Net version!
:Nirav
When sending third string sent returns the message:
“Your browser’s cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on”
What I am making made a mistake?
Hi Alexandre,
Well i didn’t got your problem. Can you tell me about that ‘THIRD STRING’ what exactly it mean. Are you talking about the dropdownlist where the third string is rediff and the error of cookies you are getting in rediff. Also which operating system you are using?
Well the answers will definately help us to track the problem.
With regards,
Pravin Shukla
Hi Vishal,
Congrats its a set of very useful classes that u people has written. I have downloaded the scripts n tried. But only my yahoo, gmail & myspace s working. Others like rediff, orkut & hotmail s not working. Am using windows Xp.
1)MSN :
This is the error what m getting.
Could not connect to messenger service=>10060 : A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.
is the server
var $server=’messenger.hotmail.com’;
a valid one? because if I try it on the browser its giving the 404 error….
2)Rediff :
This is the error
HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:40:37 GMT Server: Apache Set-Cookie: Rm=9e3d91857e9d741e18fbb5ba86a43642==gNzgDOyUDM4ETM ; Domain=.rediff.com;Path=/; Set-Cookie: Rl=arunkkg ; Domain=.rediff.com;Path=/; Set-Cookie: Rsc=5L22PK1KCKCqjisCthvqMjwel5IKD6IU ; Domain=.rediff.com;Path=/; Location: http://f5plus.rediff.com/iris/postlogin.php?login=arunkkg&session_id=5L22PK1KCKCqjisCthvqMjwel5IKD6IU&farm=5 Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 300 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 12:40:36 GMT Server: Apache Set-Cookie: Rl=deleted; expires=Tue, 30 May 2006 12:40:35 GMT; path=/; domain=.rediff.com Set-Cookie: Rsc=deleted; expires=Tue, 30 May 2006 12:40:35 GMT; path=/; domain=.rediff.com Set-Cookie: Rm=deleted; expires=Tue, 30 May 2006 12:40:35 GMT; path=/; domain=.rediff.com Set-Cookie: accounttype=deleted; expires=Tue, 30 May 2006 12:40:35 GMT; path=/; domain=.rediff.com Set-Cookie: Rnl=deleted; expires=Tue, 30 May 2006 12:40:35 GMT; path=.rediff.com; domain=/ Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Length: 1608 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html
3) Orkut :
With orkut also am getting similar type of error.
I would be greatful if u could just help me thru this….
regards
Arun
I have developed yahoo contact list grabber in ASP.I will publish soon . Right now i am working on MSN contact list grabber.if any developer help me on msn conctact list grabber?
I tried it on yahoo but it didn’t worked.
When I looked into php code, I found that hardcoded values for some dynamic post parameters like “.challenge” have been supplied. SUch values must be parsed from source page.
I don’t know how are they expecting it to work?
iamecstatic,
You are using Windows or Linux?
http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/contactgrabber/contactgrabber_0.2.zip
Above version is stable one and works on Windows as well as Linux.
About how we are expecting it to work, we are not expecting, but we know it works.
So there is no question of expectations.
Feel free to check the application at:
http://www.mlep.com/~uploads/contacts/
Thanks for your comments.
:Vishal
Arun,
Thanks for your comments.
Please download following version since you are using Windows XP.
http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/contactgrabber/contactgrabber_0.2.zip
It is stable version and works on Windows. But version 0.1 isn’t fully working on Windows.
Please check and let me know.
:Vishal
whether contact grabber not work for PHP 4.x.x?
if not then what i have to do so that it work in PHP 4.x.x(i.e 4.4.4 or any other)
Regards,
Gunjan.
I have also tried the phpclasses version and the Yahoo grab doenst work. I also noticed an interesting fenomenon when importing from hotmail (which works) it is disconnecting me from messanger. Why is taking the contats from messanger and not from email?
It might not work for PHP 4. Since there are classes of Yahoo, MSN Messenger & Gmail which are perhaps built around PHP5.
You might want to download the latest version 0.3.
http://www.magnettechnologies.com/products_contactgrabber.htm
:Vishal
iamecstatic,
Yahoo didn’t work because there is a path in the file of Yahoo which stores the cookie. That will need modification. Though you can download the latest release as well 0.3 from:
http://www.magnettechnologies.com/products_contactgrabber.htm
:Vishal
I found it very useful and would be using it for our portal, FunPiper.com. Thanks to all of those, who developed it and made it freely available.
Everything is working fine except orkut. The response is “Not Read” 3 times.
Hi,
Gr8 job with the contact grabber. Nice to see the classes used in the package. Keep up the good work.
Thanks.
Ehsan
I have some trouble with hotmail, i can’t connect to the server ..
can someone help me?
Hii,
i found it very usefull and intersting.
i am using it on linux(Fedora),
everything is working very good, except orkut.
contact list comes out empty, it is not showing any kind of error.
If someone knows the solution for orkut then please reply.
thanks in advance
vikas sharma
vikas1284@gmail.com
Actually there is also another project in SF.net that is using PHP and CURL to import address books or contact lists, you may visit it here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cl-grabber/
Regards, Ma’moon
Hello,
I downloaded the code from sourceforge and phpclasses. I tried them on Wamp (the latest version running PHP 5.x). I also tried them on a linux server. All I could get to work was the hotmail (which is really a msn messenger contacts list retrieval) and rediff parts. Orkut, Myspace, Gmail and Yahoo contact extraction are not working at all. What could be the reason? Do let me know by email.
Btw: I think you guys did a great job
Regards,
Prabal.
I also was unable to make this example work except hotmail. And hotmail also works not properly !
Hi,
IF you have any problem to fetch MSN contact list please visit this url
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3895.html
here you can get calsses for msn,yahoo,gmail,orkut,myspace.
just download these classes and integerate it in your site and enjoy.
Regards,
Imran Ghafoor (Pakistan)
Hi Vikas,
I install your Contact Grabber.but its not work for gmail,yahoo and rediff.remember my PHP version is 4.3.9.
Please Help me.
I downloaded this today. Its over here, being tested:
http://www.imagevertex.com/importer/
Hotmail and Orkut works OK. But nothing else will. Very strange.
If all could work, this would be a great free script
Hey vishal and team,
good job guys!!! I have been using your package for quite long. Everything used to work fine but noticed today, orkut has stopped working.
I am using the contactgrabber version 3 on Linux.
May be orkut guys have changed the stuff at their end….
Can you update what needs to be done to fix that.
hi all, I am trying to use a grabber for a community website to invite friends and have the site growing but I have my web site in hosting and I do have problems with the curl installation, do you know of any grabber class I can use or service that can help me? r any workaround if my host do not have the curl on?
Instead of struggling with scripts and all else, why not just let someone else do it.
Check http://www.1clickrecommend.com .Just signup get your code and place links on your pages. The rest is done by the other site. And best is it wont ask for your email account details to get contacts. You can build contacts on the site itself.
hello,thanks for freely providing the scripts .
it work fine at localhost
but not work at remote site.
thanks,
Hi,
Thanks for the great work done by providing contact grabber. Hope that this will always be available free of charge.
On other hand, is there any possibility for providing the classes for .net??
Thanks
Kamal
hi i am trying to get work a msn contacts grabber for a while now i am still can’t do it i am still having an error like
Could not connect to messenger service
i check my php info
the out put says
CURL support enabled
CURL Information libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
what should i do tnk u in advance..
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