Hi,
I am looking for some script using which we can download/ import address book from our email. I dont want php code. If its javascript or anything please let me know. I am new into this project so please help me out.
Is there any way we can do this?

Thanks

shall we guess at what email system you are using?

email system? wat's tat?, I have a website from where i want to people to import their email address book. Got any idea how to start?

Import implies they are exporting it from somewhere.
Download/import implies it is already online.

Or are you just trying to tell us that you want to have some system where people can save their contact list.
If so, ONLY server side code can do the import and you will have to have some upload system (server side code again) and some server side parsing code that can handle the several different file formats that are exported.
email systems and email clients can export contact lists in several forms. CSV, TSV, XML, Vcard and more.
Your system must be able to handle the more common ones at the very least.

Hi,
I got a website, i want people to click on yahoo and enter their id and password after which we can import their contact list. I read few documentations and its mentioned i am supposed to use some 3rd party API's for this. Is it so? Got any idea? Please reply.

Thanks

You would probably want to use Yahoo's mail API, Google's mail API, etc, for this.

I wouldn't do it. Personally, when somebody asks me for a user name and password to my email inbox, I tell them where they can stick a password. Even the largest, most well known and reputable sites, I'm not giving out my info to. As Chris said, this will almost certainly require server side codee on your part, and that means you could easily write code to save my credentials in your database, and do anything you'd like with them. Because the code ("script") lives on your server, I have no way of knowing if it does save my stuff.

That said, it would be possible to use JavsScript and only pull data off the current page, so people would have to navigate to their address book, then run your code. I think it would have to be a browser plug in to do that, though?

Hi guys,
Thankx for info. I came across this site, www.plaxo.com, where this new widget is being used. any idea of how to embed in web application? I need to do it pretty soon. i got it working,and i am able to login to my yahoo or hotmail, but its taking long time in downloading my contacts..
Any1 used plaxo?????

Thanks. waiting for Ur reply

Hi there, to be honest, you're going to get very few people to actually enter their username and password to retrieve their address books, we do this for trusted websites such as facebook...

If you where to continue however, you need to use the API's as John said above.. check out http://developer.yahoo.com/ to get you started, this is quite a complex procedure however and would still involve your viewers putting a lot of trust into you..

Thanks,
Andy

The Plaxo widget is awesome. So easy to integrate and get access to AOL, Gmail, Yahoo, etc. Your users will love it. I've had users practically begging for this feature on my video card site Sharenik, but prior to Plaxo the best alternative I found was some downloadable PHP code which I'd have to integrate into my Java site.

The Plaxo widget took me about 45 minutes to test and integrate. Although a few users might balk at putting in their login/pw info, the vast majority will appreciate the service.