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theuser
theuser

Reputation: 1

Get Yahoo email address using yahoo ID or yahoo guid?

How to Get Yahoo email address using yahoo ID or yahoo guid?

I completed the yahoo API Outh to obtain the data of a user of Yahoo! Messenger, but can not directly send email to them, because there is no email address in the data, but there yahooid ...

e.g. yahooid => john123

If appending @yahoo.com to its yahooid field. As I see, this is totally wrong. Because with a yahooid, say john123, the associated email may have an international domain like [email protected], [email protected] etc.

I can use yahooid to get his guid, using YQL:

select guid from yahoo.identity where yid='john123'

How to get Yahoo email address using yahoo ID or yahoo guid?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3861

Answers (2)

xicooc
xicooc

Reputation: 851

Use YQL XML or JSON to get user's email (after user login) http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/?q=select%20%2a%20from%20social.profile%20where%20guid%20=%20me

Upvotes: 0

BrianC
BrianC

Reputation: 10721

By design, you can't get the Yahoo email address from either a Yahoo ID or GUID. In the early days you could usually infer that for a given id "yournamehere", the email address would be "[email protected]". That's no longer a safe assumption in part due to the international domains as you mentioned, and to help prevent spammers.

Typically application or website developers would solve this by asking the user for their email address as part of the OAuth or OpenID authentication flow.

Upvotes: 1

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