PHP APIs for Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo? [closed]

Answer 1

Plaxo has an API widget to import contacts from Gmail, Yahoo, AOL and Hotmail. You can view a demo of it in action here. It previously had a small issue with IE7 (last checked half a year ago), but if its resolved it might suite your needs.

Answer 2

Rapleaf might have something for you:

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/4436.html

It appears that this service plays cat and mouse with some providers, as not all e-mail providers offer a stable API for communicating with their services. (It would undermine their business model.) So, if you use these and the e-mail provider breaks the chain somehow, you're broken until Rapleaf catches up.

Answer 3

Some pointers:

• Gmail: Google Contacts Data API
• Yahoo:
  • Address Book API (deprecated)
  • Contacts API
• Hotmail: Windows Live Contacts API

Most of the scripts, etc. I found didn't really work. There's a commercial one which uses scraping to retrieve the contacts but I think those attempts are rather flawed. The above links should give you an example of how to access the address books on each service.