Importing contacts from Gmail, Hotmail, etc.

[eluser]charlieD[/eluser]
Hi all,

I'm working on an 'invite friends' application like you get in social networks - i.e. you enter your contact details for your mail accounts (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail, Facebook) etc. and the site then imports them, lets you choose who you want to send an email to, and handles the invite side of things.

There seem to be open APIs for Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo but rather than handle these all separately are there any good classes out there that help handle this?

Thanks

[eluser]Yash[/eluser]
Use gooogle ..CI don't provide any library,helper or so..

[eluser]Sumon[/eluser]
here are some links for you
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3127.html -- For yahoo contacts
http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4107.html - for linkedin contacts
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/packag...thread/18/ - grab gmail contacts
http://www.phpclasses.org/discuss/packag.../thread/5/ -grab hotmail/msn contacts
and so on. search yourself

[eluser]charlieD[/eluser]
Thanks - I'd found classes for each individual API, was just wondering if anyone had ever used a class that abstracts that and can deal with all the APIs as I hadn't found anything like that in my searching.

[eluser]aslamdoctor[/eluser]
Take a look at this

http://www.rapleaf.com/apidoc/v2/abook

Please reply if it gives any problem.

[eluser]niyogi[/eluser]
rapleaf is not an easy API to get a hold of. i've signed up in the past and they "screen" you before providing you an api key for their service (probably for good reason!)

[eluser]charlieD[/eluser]
I managed to get an API key for Rapleaf but it turns out they are going to stop developing and supporting their address book importer. At the moment, the Gmail and Yahoo importers were working but Hotmail did not and it sounds like they won't be updating it any more. They did, however direct me to another company which provide a download which seems to work very well from the demo on their site - http://www.octazen.com/, though it is a charged product.

[eluser]niyogi[/eluser]
charlieD, good find although price seems a bit steep at octazen!

I also got the same message about them moving away from supporting their contacts API. I believe Plaxo has an address book widget as well.