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dole doug
dole doug

Reputation: 36048

retrieve email address from inbox

Services as linkedin, facebook, etc, can import email addresses(contacts) from my Inbox if I provide my gmail/yahoo password. How are they doing it? Can I do it too, using PHP?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 503

Answers (5)

S Pangborn
S Pangborn

Reputation: 12729

ContactGrabber looks like it should work for GMail, Yahoo, Hotmail and other services.

A PHP API for retrieving Mail From Yahoo, GMail, Hotmail

Upvotes: 0

Dave
Dave

Reputation: 5173

Use the google contacts API.

Upvotes: 0

David Glass
David Glass

Reputation: 2384

The Google Contacts Data API allows you to own your own contact data. We expect the API to be useful for a big range of applications. For example, developers can use it to:

  • Import a user's Google contacts into their web or desktop application
  • Export their application's contact list to Google
  • Write sync applications for mobile devices or popular, desktop-based contact management applications

Upvotes: 3

Julian Davchev
Julian Davchev

Reputation: 256

Yes you can. You need imap extension to make your live easier. Here is sample example howto do this for gmail. Yahoo should be similer if not same.

http://davidwalsh.name/gmail-php-imap

Hope that helps. Cheers

Edit: Got questions wrong.sry

Upvotes: 1

Trevor
Trevor

Reputation: 6689

You can use libgmailer for accessing Gmail in PHP

Upvotes: 0

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