how to get Yahoo n Hotmail buddy list

[phparion]

hi
i want to make a feature in my website where my visitors can login to either yahoo, hotmail or gmail and then their buddy list(persons added with them) can be shown on the page and then they can send invitations to dicussion forum from there easily,,,,,,,,,
i have done all the stuff only the module in which a user can login to yahoo, hotmail or gmail and then his contacts list is shown in the page is left,,,,,,

please guide me how to get the Buddy list of a user from relative domain...
thanks in advance

[jatar_k]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld phparion,

we've played around with messenger and things like this

it was a royal pain to say the least, there were no good docs around. I would advise against it unless you can find some good yahoo or msn docs about it.

[phparion]

i dont want to use the names of website which are doing this already..... only for reference guess from this www.hi( ).com.... they have a feature, that you can login to yahoo, hotmail or gmail etc and then your buddy list is shown on their website page and then you can easily send invitations to your buddies from that list... i want to make the same feature,i can login to yahoo and hotmail and gmail too, but how to get the buddy list from the contact of respective domain?
please help me in this, i am curiously waiting for your reponse. thanks

[phparion]

anyone dare to answer this?

[jatar_k]

to be honest I have no idea how to get the buddy list

I dare to answer, or fail to actually ;)

have you looked to see if there is anything at hotscripts and the like?

[dwighty]

Hi, I dont have a reply to your question, but i have a question myself on a similar matter.

I want to have a area in a members section where users logged in can see if other members are logged onto msn or not. i.e. either have a green msn man or an red one.

is this easy to do or will the response be similar to the ones already given?

Thanks

[phparion]

this is webmasters world.. the most famous forum to get solutions to problems, please dont do this with me :((... i am stuck with this problem i know many of the php programmers here can answer this please help me,....

[coopster]

trillian is a client solution that monitors multiple buddy lists. It is not a PHP solution though.