By praveen-sl on

Contact Grabber.

so this is the start of this new module. as you all agreed before this is one of most needed modules for drupal. so i've started developing it for drupal 5.x and 4.7.x .

these days i'm so busy developing some other custom modules for one of our customers.

so i'll do this module in my spare time and i'll share it with you all.

i've checked those open source codes with gmail and yahoo and it seems to work great. but regarding other service providers im not so sure. so for the initial phase i'll only do this gmail and yahoo.

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Praveen Gunasekara

⋅ Categories: Drupal 4.7.x, Drupal 5.x

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praveen-sl commented

thanks for your support people,

but theres no point of writing invite module again its re-inventing the wheel. shall we arrange this module with invite module so invite module can ask for the list of contacts based on the email network. i think that will be great.

comment about it guys.

thanks.

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Praveen Gunasekara

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ivrh commented

Does anybody have some real ideas?
Don't mess this thread with Good Idea Postages.

Give real ideas!!!!

I was trying to find a solution for similar task, but, as I couldn't find any APIs from Google nor Yahoo, I went different way. I used widget from plaxo.com web-site. It is free at the moment. Probably it could be integrated into Invite.module.

Of course it is better to have designated Drupal module to do this, but...

I made a form substitution for native drupal registration form with one I have created. It works well. Now I am working in the same way on changing Drupal's invite friends form.

The reason I do that this way is that Forms API - a bit complicated for Drupal's beginner and also I could not find the way to make registration form Multipage form.

Anyway, registration form works well and when I need a new field in it - I simply add the field in Profiles, then create new field in My form with the same fiels name.

If anybody of you, guys, have some idea(s) to at least show the way how to do this - this would be really helpfull, apart from Nice Try notes. Sometimes one word could change everything....

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praveen-sl commented

Hey all,

i'm hoping to deploy a restful application on contact grabbing. where we can make use of xml-rpc to get the necessary information. so then i don't have to commit all the time to make a small correction and also we don't have to worry about adding and removing web mail platforms.

at the same time it is better to do so in order to make this solution extensible.

comment on this please.

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Praveen Gunasekara

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soosa commented

Hello,
i have written a set of scripts that grabs the contact list from Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo!, Lycos, Myspace, orKut, and MSN Messenger contacts, those scripts has been grouped in one project and its already GPLed, i want to make those scripts work for Drupal as will, they are all tested and they seems to work fine, where can i find the module so i can download it and start hacking it and add my scripts to it?.
please note that the Hotmail grabber is working on the old hotmail accounts which means that it doesn't work for the windows live accounts but currently i am trying to make it working on both version of hotmail and i am also working on an AOL grabber as will.
if you want to test it you can visit https://sourceforge.net/projects/cl-grabber/ and download it.
hopefully to be able to make a small contribution in this wonderful community :)

Regards, Ma'moon

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gurukripa commented

http://drupal.org/project/invite

this module is good..but if u cls incorporate your script into it..it wld be ideal...the good thing about the invite option is that it can send emails from the inviters email id...hence making it easily recognisable by the people who are invited...

also prevents spammers...becoz the mail will go from their email id :)

hope ur tool comes soon

bye

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abqaria commented

I used the script above
i uploaded the script folder "grabbers" to my site root
i made a new page called it let us say grabbing

copied the content of main.html (in the script above zip file)
made input type php
made some directory path changes in the file main.php

it worked and imported emails

to use it further you can make the output instead of a table of
name and username

only it should output "email"
and by using the pageroute module
u can make the user copy his desired emails
and paste it in the next page which should be invite module

can someone make the output only emails instead of username and email

hope u got it
thanks

made some directory path changes in main.php

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