My project requires that I should let the user using my website to either import his/her contacts from gmail,yahoo, hotmail,facebook,linkedin so that I can save them their contacts email id in our database and send them invitation email to join our website or if importing from all these websites is not possible then directly using some api to directly send invitations via these websites.
I will really appreciate any sort of help as I am new to wordpress and hence not aware about lot of plugins and searched the internet a lot but didn’t find anything constructive. I have visited my yahoo mail id and can see I can import my contacts from facebook,gmail,outlook and other yahoo accounts so that means there is 100% some API which yahoo guys are using.
Please help.
Your question is very, very broad, but here are the APIs you might want to look into:
Google Contacts API Version 3.0 Look under Retrieving all contacts.
Yahoo Contacts API
Hotmail doesn't seem to have a proper way of getting the contacts.
Facebook
LinkedIn Check out the example "Get My Connections".
Good luck!
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Years ago, someone asked on Stack Overflow if it were possible to retrieve a list of all employees who work at a company. I can do this through the LinkedIn UI, but I cannot seem to find any mechanism for this using the v2 API. The SO response mentions this used to be possible on the v1 API, but you had to request access through LinkedIn's "Vetted API Access Program." Unfortunately, the link on this response is now obsolete and does not send users to any such program.
How could I apply for this program nowadays? This is a specific situation to me and my company, so I would very much like to discuss this with someone at LinkedIn if some form of this Vetted API Access Program still exists. I do not wish to disclose the details of this request to the open internet.
I have confirmed through contacts inside LinkedIn that this API functionality has been removed. No further information has been provided, and LinkedIn tech support refuses to comment any more on this issue. Furthermore, no LinkedIn engineers will comment on this thread here.
This is bizarre since any regular user can do this functionality through the web front-end, but for some reason LinkedIn believes this would be a violation of privacy/security if we could do this programmatically.
Therefore, the only way to obtain this data would be through screen scraping. I wish I had better news, and I wish that LinkedIn would provide some reasoning for their changes, but alas this is where we are.
I just posted a very similar question because I ran into the same problem as you.
The application forms for Linkedin's current partner programs seem to be located here, however I can't tell you which one of those programs comes with the necessary API access rights and I am in general not sure if this API request is still allowed.
Edit: The Linkedin Help page states that applications for partner programs are currently unavailable?
In general, you can get a list of employees of a company if you scrape Linkedin profiles exhaustively, or if you have an exhaustive dataset of Linkedin profiles.
Each Linkedin profile contains a list of experiences that links to the company profile URL.
Thereafter, you will filter the dataset into profiles currently working at X company to get a list of employees currently working in a company. The same technique can also be used to retrieve a list of past employees.
And that is what we did. We scraped all public Linkedin profiles based in the US and made an alternative API known as Proxycurl Employee Listing API to Linkedin API to provide employee listing functionality.
Proxycurl's Employee Listing API will never be as exhaustive as Linkedin's dataset because not all profiles are made public, but most are. But will suffice to meet your needs.
I am working on a project in ASP.NET MVC4 which require that I go through the user's email when provided, retrieve the contact email and send an email invite to all the users.
Can someone help me to with accomplishing this step by step.
Thanks in anticipation.
There is a number of projects on sourceforge, which you can use for importing contacts from yahoo and gmail, for example, OpenContacts.NET
If you want to write your own code, see Google Contacts API and Yahoo! Address Book API
How can i access various contacts associated with my any of gmail/yahoo/rediff account Or can i load inbox from there to my website. Just like gmail imports contacts from others sites or loading emails from other sites. I gone through thread How to import email contacts from various email service providers in a website? but could not find way to use this API.
Thanks
Just download the general API here. Assuming you have some basic php understanding you simply use the classes within the API to get the list of emails. check out the documentation for gmail here.
Hope this helps,
I am trying to get latest 3 public activities of our company from linkedin (ex: http://www.linkedin.com/company/4043/activity) and present it on our website but unfortunately I dont see a clear explanation to do so in the API documentations. I registered an API Key but I am confused if I need to do OAuth if so against what and then what API to call to get publicly available info?
Is OAuth really needed for something that is available?
Can I store an OAuth token for an internal user and keep fetching data on that? I would really do not want to authenticated the site visitors with oauth to get free linkedin content.
This question is on the lines of this one, but I still wanted to ask and see if I could get a better response/answer.
To get the company updates from the LinkedIn API, you will need to reference the following document:
https://developer.linkedin.com/reading-company-updates
The API is currently in preview mode, but the above document addresses your question re: OAuth as well as shows the specific calls as well as sample output. If you have any questions after reviewing the docs, please feel free to visit our developer forums at:
https://developer.linkedin.com/forums/rest
And one of someone from our team would be more than happy to help you further.
Enjoy!
-Jeremy
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I am using linkedin-j apis and trying to search the available public feeds for a set of keywords say oracle and google. That is, i should get all the feeds which mentions either oracle or google in it.
It is possible in facebook and twitter. Is it doable in linkedin-j as well? I could not find apis other then search people, job and companies.
If yes please guide which api to use? site does not seems to have relevant docs.
I found from documentation that linkedIn does not allow all that. It only can pull information specific to the authenticated user.