Thursday 6th November 2008
by Sajith M.RIf 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
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
Tags: access, AOL, code, contact, download, email, fetch, get, gmail, grab, grabber, Hotmail, Indiatimes, Linkedin, lycos, MySpace, orkut, password, php, Rediff, yahoo


Nothing is working.
this not work i cant retrive any datya frm any site
Hello Friends,
I know most of them are not satisfy with the existing code. Even i faced this problem a lot. After a long search on internet i just found a powerful code that can really help you all.
Please follow tthe link and download openinviter.
http://openinviter.com/download.php
If you face any problem let me know on anil.k@witinnovation.com
Bye & Have a nice Day.
it not working..its shows contact not found..
Hi,
I download grabberzip and implement in my staging machine. Is not working.. Please give me some idea.. Or send me bug free version.
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.
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
For me nothing works at all.
Can any one have working example ?
php_nine@yahoo.com
Nice Content,But some of them are not working
thank u
Yahoo contact grabber is not working in PHP.Please help me .
I used the same script but sometimes it works or sometimes it dosent. Is there any blocking by the respective email provider.
Hello, Can any body tell me how to use this tool for my site?
Thanks in Advance
not working gmail,rediff. please help me
Not working fr me…
If yu hv latest version mail me to arundavid.info@gmail.com
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I need a contact grabber programme. Any ideas of the best and cheapest. Thanks?
contact grabber is not working for anyone. if you have the new version please send it to. silent_hell4u@hotmail.com . thanks
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
please do email me
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
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
i download the zip file but its working for yahoo only , why its not working for other ?
if anyone knows about working script of aol please let me know. but it should be in php. thanks in advance
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
still not working for gmail and other only working for yahoo
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.
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
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
Its only working for yahoo
could you please upload a bug free code in which I can grab all services contacts
Nice Tutorial…..The code worked….Thks Sajith MR
hai
not working gmail, hotmail, rediff etc except yahoo.. plz help me
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
Hi sajith,
Greate work! But only works with yahoo, do you have a bug free version for other services?
Thanks,
VKS
accept yahoo nothing is working it saying no contact found
aol, hotmail is not working
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.
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.
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.
Lovely blog worth following.Thanx a lot.
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
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.