Does anyone know of a Webmail Contact List Importer scripts (ColdFusion, PHP etc) like those used on Twitter and LinkedIn ? I've found some but they are paid for and I want some more bespoke & open.
To clarify a little more I'm not looking for a way to process .csv files :) I'm looking for a bit of code that can logging into gmail, yahoo mail, hotmail, aol and pull out the users address book.
What format does it use for contact list? If CSV, then you can write it in 1 minute...
$data = file('list.csv');
$contacts = array();
foreach ($data AS $entry)
{
$contacts[] = explode($separator, $entry); // usually separator is ';'
}
add here error handling and name the fields after exploding - and that's it!
Are you actually after a method where a user enters their webmail username and password into your site and then your site goes off and grabs contact details from that account? If so, then it sounds like a can of worms to me, and is something that our very own Mr Atwood blogged about a while back.
I'd go with something along the lines of Evgeniy's answer.
(I would have just commented on the question but my woeful rep prevents me...)
(Edited to include the link to Jeff's blog now that I'm allowed)
What format does it use for contact list? If CSV, then you can write it in 10 seconds...
<cfhttp
url = "http://localhost/list.csv"
name = "Contacts"
/>
And that handles all the escaping and column naming for you, giving a nice convenience Query to work with.
;)
You will likely need to use a library that can log into all of those services, and access their contact lists in their format, and extract them in one format.
In other news, The PHP/Curl book seems to have it all done for $25 cost of the book. I would suspect whatever the code is in PHP, it would be about half with Coldfusion.
try http://openinviter.com/, has the email contact import plus a few social networks built in
probabily you can try http://stescodes.com/grabcontacts.aspx, it has demo too
it has linkedin and myspace
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Also have application grabbing services for Outlook CSV, Outlook Express CSV, Thunderbird CSV, Google CSV, Yahoo CSV, Windows live CSV.
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