Contact Grabber
Posted on 06. Nov, 2008 by Sajith M.R in Downloads, php, php source code
If you are a social media website developer , sometimes you might search for grabbing contacts from a particular email account if the password is given. I also did the same. In most of the cases it did not work properly. But recently i got a contact grabber from phpclasses.org which works perfectly on Gmail, Hotmail, Rediff, Yahoo, Orkut, MySpace, Indiatimes, Linkedin , AOL and lycos
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But the zip file i got is not well arranged, so it shows some errors . I arranged it in proper way and uploaded here:
Download:
http://sajithmr.com/downloads/grabber.zip
(Under GNU Public License)
Using this php code , you can export the email contacts as csv file.
Here is the actual source website : http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/3895.html
Sridhar
Nov 7th, 2008
Yes, these kind of tools do add a great value to the social media websites.
While working with one our clients, we used a similar open source php class/function. Sooner, we found that, the login script/method kept changing for most of the service providers (Gmail, Hotmail, AOL, etc). For sure, these providers dont use the same methods, atleast the login variables are called differently and the contacts are stored different. Particularly, AOL at times have had different scripts for emails with AOL.com & different for AOL.in.
Since, then have used the contact importer script provided by Svetlozar Petrov (paid service) and they have kept up by giving constant updates in the last year (about one update every two months for each of the email hosts). This is where OpenId / Oauth become more useful.
TheAnand
Nov 7th, 2008
This is a interesting concept. If you can integrate a mail() into this, it will be very useful to grabbing contacts from yahoo, msn and gmail.
I particularly like the way it works with orkut. Thanks a lot of sharing
Jhangora
Nov 11th, 2008
Lovely blog worth following.Thanx a lot.
Hari Kishan
Nov 20th, 2008
Hi friend i had downloaded the contact grabber and uploaded in my site.but its only working with yahoo.I mean i am not getting the remaining mails like gmail,orcut etc working.
Pls check it out and send me the bug free version.
Thanks
Kishan.
X
Nov 27th, 2008
great find, but mail services update their site designs from time to time (the for $$$ importer from improsys gets updates every 4-5 months)… I wonder if this class also gets updated when mail services change their sites.
Nagpur
Dec 6th, 2008
Hi author
great work done. I appreciate your team work. I downloaded code and tried to grab the contacts. It works fine with gmail, yahoo and hotmail only. Will you please help me to find contacts from orkut, rediff, linkedin ect.
I need to enabled your code in cakephp project.
waiting for your bug free code.
riya
Dec 8th, 2008
aol, hotmail is not working
fakhru
Jan 12th, 2009
accept yahoo nothing is working it saying no contact found
vks
Jan 14th, 2009
Hi sajith,
Greate work! But only works with yahoo, do you have a bug free version for other services?
Thanks,
VKS
amar
Feb 2nd, 2009
hi friends
i downloded it and it is only working with yahoo .
how can i get contacts from gmail and all others can anybody help me
rosemathi
Feb 19th, 2009
hai
not working gmail, hotmail, rediff etc except yahoo.. plz help me
OSTNews
Feb 22nd, 2009
Nice Tutorial…..The code worked….Thks Sajith MR
Waqas
Feb 22nd, 2009
Its only working for yahoo
could you please upload a bug free code in which I can grab all services contacts
Rohit
Mar 2nd, 2009
Hey
I wanna to implemented this in the site it gives error.It is installed in this link .Please check this error and help me . http://iceagevideo.com/grabber/index.php
Thanks
Rohit
Mar 3rd, 2009
Hey
It is working only for the yahoo, nothing for all the others please send me bug free code that will be work for all. Thanks for your help
Ash
Mar 16th, 2009
Hi still contacts grabbing for gmail is not working, Can anyone from u tell me any opensource which can grab the contacts list from gmail.
fakhru
Mar 20th, 2009
still not working for gmail and other only working for yahoo
Ash
Mar 27th, 2009
If u want to have working script of gmail please get it from the following url. its working fine i have used it in my web. this is absolutely fine and price free. http://svetlozar.net/page/free-gmail-script.html
Ash
Mar 27th, 2009
if anyone knows about working script of aol please let me know. but it should be in php. thanks in advance
Umesh Machewar
Mar 27th, 2009
i download the zip file but its working for yahoo only , why its not working for other ?
virginboy
Apr 1st, 2009
hi
can have your script iceberg? http://iceagevideo.com/grabber/index.php. I have a functioning gmail, yahoo ang AOL but my hotmail isnt. Your hotmail seems to be working while mine isnt.
you can send it to my email address sai95652000@yahoo.com
virginboy
Apr 1st, 2009
hi
can have your script Rohit? http://iceagevideo.com/grabber/index.php. I have a functioning gmail, yahoo ang AOL but my hotmail isnt. Your hotmail seems to be working while mine isnt.
you can send it to my email address sai95652000@yahoo.com
virginboy
Apr 1st, 2009
please do email me
siva
May 18th, 2009
contact grabber script works only for yahoo it is not working with other provider.. pls.. kindly.. help me.. if any one have correct version then send it to my mail address… sivakumar.bdu@gmail.com
fawad
Jun 3rd, 2009
contact grabber is not working for anyone. if you have the new version please send it to. silent_hell4u@hotmail.com . thanks
Cartoon Bears
Jun 4th, 2009
I need a contact grabber programme. Any ideas of the best and cheapest. Thanks?
Soopafly
Aug 11th, 2009
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ArunDavid
Aug 16th, 2009
Not working fr me…
If yu hv latest version mail me to arundavid.info@gmail.com
zone7
Nov 4th, 2009
not working gmail,rediff. please help me
Nidhi
Nov 7th, 2009
Hello, Can any body tell me how to use this tool for my site?
Thanks in Advance
Shalini
Dec 8th, 2009
I used the same script but sometimes it works or sometimes it dosent. Is there any blocking by the respective email provider.
Susanta
Dec 10th, 2009
Yahoo contact grabber is not working in PHP.Please help me .
Yein
Dec 13th, 2009
thank u
Alex Mathew
Dec 16th, 2009
Nice Content,But some of them are not working
Vasim Padhiyar
Dec 22nd, 2009
For me nothing works at all.
Can any one have working example ?
php_nine@yahoo.com
GIrish
Jan 6th, 2010
Hi Sridhar,
I downloaded the Script of urs, while executing in my form i am getting these errors
1.Deprecated: Function eregi() is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\project\grabber\index.php on line 32
After Replacing eregi by preg replace
1. Warning: preg_replace() expects at least 3 parameters, 2 given in C:\wamp\www\project\contact\index.php on line 32
Request : Suggestion required
Regard’s
Girish
Prashant Patil
Jan 27th, 2010
Hi,
I downloded it and it is not working. Even i made path changes in config file but still its not working.
how can i get contacts from yahoo,gmail and all others? can anybody help me..?
Thanks in advance.
suresh kumar
Feb 1st, 2010
Hi,
I download grabberzip and implement in my staging machine. Is not working.. Please give me some idea.. Or send me bug free version.