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How to Fetch Yahoo Address List of any user

accessor -- on June 6 2005

Sent by Tejas Lakhani

I just want to know that how to fetch Yahoo address list of any user who provide his/her username and password and login in my website. I want the stuffs like it has in www.ringo.com where a person who is a member of ringo can easily login to any of his account like Yahoo,MSN,gmail and it automatically fetches its friends list from it and display it on ringo's member page who signed in using his/her username and password. I want to implement the same idea in to my site so may I know how to implement this.

Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 7054 posts	on June 6 2005 Thanks to your post I had my first visit to ringo.com. If you create a YACS community any registered member can post his details, including IM address: YM, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, IRC, Skype. These data are shown at many places, at user profiles, in discussion boards, and even in the list of members. If you are using Yahoo Messenger, you can click on the little related icon at other member profiles to contact them directly... Same thing for other contact information. Click on the Skype icon to start aphone call, etc. Is this the kind of stuff you are looking after?
Tejas 2 posts	inspired from Bernard on Aug. 21 2005 Bernard: Well i want to know that if you register in www.ringo.com with email ID of yahoo as e.g. webprogrammer@yahoo.com now once you login in www.ringo.com and inside it if you want to invite your yahoo address book members to register in www.ringo.com then on entering username (i.e. webprogrammer) and password (i.e. password of that account for yahoo) in ringo.com page's username and password field then on entering yahoo account details once u sign in your yahoo address is fetched by ringo.com and it display list of all address book member so i want to know that how to fetch such address book list for yahoo or hotmail or any other such mail account. can you describe me in brief
Bernard from nearby-an-airport Associate, 7054 posts	inspired from tejas on Aug. 22 2005 Tejas: I have absolutely no idea of how to fetch a list of friends from the yahoo server, sorry...
MuthuVeerappan from Bangalore, India 1 post	inspired from Bernard on Nov. 21 2005 Bernard: Check http://www.periyakaruppan.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=84#body
Hardik 1 post	on Mar. 31 2006 Hi to all, I have made script to fetch yahoo address book in php. In that you have to enter email id and password to fetch yahoo address book. Thanks, Hardik
Nette 1 post	inspired from Hardik on Apr. 4 2006 Hardik: Could we please have that script?
AnsteyER 301 posts	inspired from Bernard on Apr. 29 2007 I have no idea why, but when i ran an update on my server, all the yahoo references, AIM, jabber..whatever..they all disapeared. It was as if i turned of instant messenger data or something. it's still in the db, but it just doesn't show up. I have scoured the control panel for an hour and can't find it. all i know is, it used to work and now it doesn't. I know that if i take a clean version of the code, and DON'T UPDATE IT! the icons miraculously reappear.

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