i want to import contacts from gmail, yahoo etc when you give the username and password like in sites like hi5 and myspace. how do i do this?? i use visual studio 2003.

In my opinion, you should do it in two steps. First one, use a web agent that would surf the site to the page that gives you the contacts list. I guess you can find such agents on open source communities. Then, when you have your contact list, just parse it. The tedious part is the automatic surf agent, I think. It must be macro-able for each site in order to reach the desired contact page. Hope it will help you Be well

i didnt get any such web agent..

recently i need to write a program to import contacts from yahoo, gmail and also hotmail using .net 2.0...

but i can't search any sample from internet... is there any expert can teach??

plz visit codeplex.com

Take a look at Yahoo Importer class

http://gnillydev.blogspot.com/2007/10/yahoo-contact-import-class-in-c.html

 

I checked that blog post

and i had implemented same with running example here..

http://www.zoomasp.net/Yahoo_Contact_Importer_csharp.aspx  which uses asp.net 2.0 and c#

for complete Source code you can check  

http://blog.zoomasp.net/?p=26 

 

dear koolprogrammer

if the site is accessible through browser means you can access it through C#.
All you need that is a Microsoft fiddler and  bit knowledge of HTTP protocol.Here i developed a small open source product named : contacts reader .net , other names address book reader .net, contacts importer .net, address book grabber .net  for SEO :)

get it at: http:www.ideabubbling.com/contactsreader.aspx

and the articles at http://www.ideabubbling.com/articles.aspx
to improve your knowledge of the screen scrapping .

love drunkenprogrammer

 

here i how to retrieve contacts from yahoo:

http://www.zoomasp.net/Yahoo_Contact_Importer_csharp.aspx

 it works fine, i just tested...
 

also another good example that can import Yahoo, Google, MSN etc, only some features do not work:

http://www.ideabubbling.com/TestDrive.aspx 

To do your own implementation just use HttpWebReqest class and open the login url of the desired service providing the username and password.

(first open the service with your browser to investigate what is the URL and what parameters you need to send...)
 

 

 

I have download the source code from the below link and its working fine for me

 http://www.ideabubbling.com/TestDrive.aspx

Also free code to import the yahoo/gmail/hotmail address book at below link

 http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=210092&filesize=178426&filename=OpenContactsNet-1.0.zip

    I have downloaded the sample code from http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=210092&filesize=178426&filename=OpenContactsNet-1.0.zip. Yahoo and Gmail contact importer are working fine. But when I will try with hotmail its not working. Can you give me a clue why its not working?

 

 

Hello mostafij,
Me too face the same problem when i dibug the code i found the error with Authorisation header it comes as ERROR: "The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure channel."

This maight seems a little bit silly but since I coudlnt find any free working contact importer for asp.net I actually decide to try combining PHP and C#. 

I found that PHP openinviter works perfectly and imports contacts  from hotmail, gmail, aol, facebook, myspace ....

following this tutorial http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/IntegrationTips.aspx I called PHP script from my asp.net page and got everything I needed.

Download openinviter from http://openinviter.com/download.php and edit example.php to adjust it for your needs

For example, just replace echo contents; with print_r($contacts); in the last line of code in example.php and call this script from asp.net as described in the IntegrationTips tutorial. You will have to pass this values to your request

string strUrl = @"http://www.yoursite.com/OpenInviterFolder/example.php";
string strRequest = @"step=get_contacts&provider_box=hotmail&email_box=your_email@hotmail.com&password_box=your_password";

this is a list of providers from which you can inport contact using this gimnastics style of coding :)

Email contact importer

"abv">Abv
"aol">AOL
"apropo">Apropo
"atlas">Atlas
"aussiemail">Aussiemail
"azet">Azet
"bigstring">Bigstring
"bordermail">Bordermail
"canoe">Canoe
"care2">Care2
"clevergo">Clevergo
"doramail">Doramail
"evite">Evite
"fastmail">FastMail
"fm5">5Fm
"freemail">Freemail
"gawab">Gawab
"gmail">GMail
"gmx_net">GMX.net
"graffiti">Grafitti
"hotmail">Live/Hotmail
"hushmail">Hushmail
"inbox">Inbox.com
"india">India
"indiatimes">IndiaTimes
"inet">Inet
"interia">Interia
"katamail">KataMail
"kids">Kids
"libero">Libero
"linkedin">LinkedIn
"lycos">Lycos
"mail2world">Mail2World
"mail_com">Mail.com
"mail_in">Mail.in
"mail_ru">Mail.ru
"meta">Meta
"mynet">Mynet.com
"netaddress">Netaddress
"nz11">Nz11
"o2">O2
"operamail">OperaMail
"pochta">Pochta
"popstarmail">Popstarmail
"rambler">Rambler
"rediff">Rediff
"sapo">Sapo.pt
"techemail">Techemail
"terra">Terra
"uk2">Uk2
"virgilio">Virgilio
"walla">Walla
"web_de">Web.de
"wpl">Wp.pt
"yahoo">Yahoo!
"yandex">Yandex
"youtube">YouTube
"zapak">Zapakmail


Social Networks

"badoo">Badoo
"bebo">Bebo
"bookcrossing">Bookcrossing
"brazencareerist">Brazencareerist
"cyworld">Cyworld
"eons">Eons
"facebook">Facebook
"faces">Faces
"famiva">Famiva
"fdcareer">Fdcareer
"flickr">Flickr
"flingr">Flingr
"flixster">Flixster
"friendfeed">Friendfeed
"friendster">Friendster
"hi5">Hi5
"hyves">Hyves
"kincafe">Kincafe
"konnects">Konnects
"koolro">Koolro
"lastfm">Last.fm
"livejournal">Livejournal
"lovento">Lovento
"meinvz">Meinvz
"mevio">Mevio
"motortopia">Motortopia
"multiply">Multiply
"mycatspace">Mycatspace
"mydogspace">Mydogspace
"myspace">MySpace
"netlog">NetLog
"ning">Ning
"orkut">Orkut
"perfspot">Perfspot
"plaxo">Plaxo
"plazes">Plazes
"plurk">Plurk
"skyrock">Skyrock
"tagged">Tagged
"twitter">Twitter
"vimeo">Vimeo
"vkontakte">Vkontakte
"xanga">Xanga
"xing">Xing
"xuqa">Xuqa

Hope this will help others with the same problem

cheers

Tomas

Hi All,

We are offering addressbook importer and friend invitor packages for many services at the following link:

http://www.findallcontacts.com/

Few contact importer that we offer are:

 - Hotmail Addressbook Importer
 - Yahoo Addressbook Importer
 - Gmail Addressbook Importer
 - AOL Addressbook Importer
 - Plaxo Addressbook Importer
 - Multiply Addressbook Importer
 - Rediffmail Addressbook Importer
 - Linkedin Addressbook Importer
 - Freemail Addressbook Importer
 - Photobucket Addressbook Importer
 - Bigpond Addressbook Importer
 - MSN Messenger Contact Importer

 - Myspace Friends Invitor
 - Facebook Friends Invitor
 - Friendster Friends Invitor
 - Xing Friends Invitor
 - Hi5 Friends Invitor
 - Tagged Friends Invitor
 - Flickr Friends Invitor
 - Hyves.net Friends Invitor
 - Yahoo360 Friends Invitor
 - Baado Friends Invitor

 - Facebook OCR Email Importer
 - Facebook Wall Poster
 - Myspace Bulletin Poster
 - Friendster Bulletin Poster
 - Orkut Scrap Poster

and we are adding more services soon. We also provide service to develop customized scripts/bots for any custom website that customer requires.

Check out working demo at the following link:
http://www.findallcontacts.com/

Regards,
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