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Contact Grabber GPLed

ATTENTION: Another free and open source script – OpenInviter – allows importing from many more services than Contact Grabber and is actively maintained. We recommend you to check it out.

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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  4. 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.

    Reply to Vishal

  8. 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

    Reply to Nirav

  9. 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?

    Reply to Alexandre

  10. 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

    Reply to Pravin

  11. 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

    Reply to Arun

  12. 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?

    Reply to shailesh

  13. 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?

    Reply to iamecstatic

  16. 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.

    Reply to Gunjan

  17. 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?

    Reply to valugi

  24. 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

    Reply to vikas

  26. 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.

    Reply to Prabal

  29. 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.

    Reply to Nirav

  31. 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.

    Reply to sunil

  32. 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?

    Reply to mavi

  33. 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.

    Reply to jasonmzs

  34. hello,thanks for freely providing the scripts .
    it work fine at localhost
    but not work at remote site.

    thanks,

    Reply to don

  35. 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

    Reply to Kamaldeep

  36. 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..

    Reply to val

  37. Where I can find out open source code like this in .Net.
    We are developing the site in .Net,We need import the contacts from social networking sites(like Orkut,Linked-in,etc.,)

    Reply to venkat

  38. I have tried to implement the contact grabbers.gmail and yahoo works very well . But nothing else will :(.

    Please advise me.

    Reply to vinitha

  39. Hi,

    While testing on my local system (Windows XP+wamp) everything is working…. but from the live server Yahoo it is not working.

    I found yahoo authentication is working properly, after that address book page is not retrieving properly. means ‘addressbook’ and ‘crumb’ is not generating completely. Both file has only this line ‘‘

    Please help me to solve this issue…

    Thanks

    Reply to Rijas

  40. Hey all,
    I have been trying to write a crawler for Orkut, but I was not able to by pass login. I try to use contactgrabber: still no go. The problem is after authenticating they responds with a page with javascript redirect to homepage of profile. When I try to use this redirect link from php code, it responds with nothing.

    I would greatly appreciate any help,
    E

    Reply to enkhResearch

  43. Hi Guys,
    Grate work keep it up!! Contact Grabber saved my life 😀 (lol)

    anyway U could improve the code to support hotmail.co.uk. Have a look on Open Inviter project. I used both to make my one 😀

    Thanks for the support
    Upeksha

    Reply to Upeksha

  44. This does *not* work with Hotmail unless you connect your Hotmail account to MSN Messenger, which then gets the addresses of your *MSN Messenger contacts*, NOT the address book of Hotmail.

    Reply to Meee

  46. Hi Guys,

    i am Developing a Social Network Website and using the contact Grabber given by You. But it is not working for me. if any one have the solution. Suggest me

    Thanks and Regards
    Thilmca

    Reply to Thilmca
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