MSN contacts grabber
Of all the contact grabbing scripts I've looked at this MSNM script has received the most attention and also the most coverage on the blog.
- Grabbing contact list from yahoo, MSN & Gmail
- Grabbing an MSN contact list
- Contacting a contact list: A tutorial
- Development on the MSNM contacts grabber
- MSN contact grab web service is finally up
- Privacy when using the MSN contacts web service
- Update to msn messenger contact grab class
- Source code for the contacts web service
- Is my MSNM contacts script obsolete?
9 posts and well over 50 comments have been made. Part of the reason for so much being written about it is that when first launched it wasn't without problems. Thankfully those that can be fixed have been fixed and workarounds have been created for the rest
Demo
A demo of the script is available here
Download the Script
The script is available in a zip archive here.
Options if it doesn't work on your server
Unfortunately the script doesn't work on all servers and this is where the workaround mentioned above comes in. For the script to work you need to connect to the ports that the MSN messenger service expects you to connect on. Some hosts, notably godaddy, prevent you accessing these ports and so the script doesn't work.
To get around this problem I've released a web service which allows you to connect to my server via http and then my server runs the contact grab script on your behalf. This solution is far from perfect but it does work.
The script you need to connect to the web service is available here.
There have also been some requests for the source code you would need to set up your own we service and this can be downloaded here.
