get buddy list from hotmail, AOL etc account

[phparion]

Hi,

i want to fetch the contact list(people added with you) from HOTMAIL, AOL and OUTLOOK, does anyone know any link to such FREE scripts, or any tutorial to do this? please help,

thanks in advance

[jatar_k]

did you find anything about this? I haven't heard of ways to do it. I would imagine it would involve sopme type of licensing.

[phparion]

well, i find many scripts doing this but none of their developers was agreed to provide under GPL. :D .. this is first time i have seen that they are using Open Source technology but are not agreed to provide Openly :),, anyway, i have done it for Yahoo and its working, (Dont ask me to give it to you i will also sell it :)) ) and working on Hotmail, gmail is tricky coz it uses AJAX, but i will do it in some time, .. if you want to learn it you should search on cURL in php, www.php.net/curl. its done with this function.

[coopster]

You could always monitor your pc's outgoing requests and imitate the same, reading the feedback to try and determine what is going on. Looks like somebody else has done this at least once before with ICQ -- if you check the user-contributed notes on PHP's fsockopen [php.net] function page you can see an example.