I've noticed a lot of sites have started doing automatic searches for people that are in your gmail address book to let you quickly send them invites to sign up. ( tagged.com, stumbleupon.com ... ) Does anybody know how this is possible? I was a bit shocked that my contact lists was accessible but I can see massive potential for marketing my own sites if I did the same thing.
Yeah, i've searched around for an API that i can use but haven't found anything. There must be something out there unless these larger sites have some kind of an arrangment with google etc, which i doubt
There are tons of them out there. Just search for gmail in the package repository of your favorite language. For example, there's libgmail for python.
Found a company thats selling scripts to do it , $40 for each system , gmail yahoo etc. http://www.addressbookimport.com/purchase/ Think i'll try and do it myself though. Thanks for the tip bigspaces
nialler, there are scripts already available for free. I've posted about, and even created a couple, on my blog Grabbing a Gmail contact list Grabbing a yahoo contact list - The MSN and Gmail grabbers in this post don't seem to work Grabbing AIM instant messenger screen names Grabbing MSN instant messenger contacts
Excellent , thanks for that streety I'll check them out! Sorry for the late reply by the way, been on holidays