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Description:

Pulls contact lists from EVERYWHERE! (Some sites not included.) Originally based on Blackbook, but heavily modified and simplified.

Features:

The current list of supported services and file types:

Services:

- AOL/AIM
- Yahoo
- Hotmail/Live/MSN
- Google Mail

Synopsis:

Returns an array of hashes containing a name key and an email key can be used as is oreasily be converted into a JSON that can be iterated though.

>> contacts = Graybook.get :service,

:username => '[email protected]',
:password => 'supersecret'

> [=> ‘john doe’, :email => ‘[email protected]’,

{:named => 'jane doe', :email => '[email protected]'}]

Requirements:

  • Mechanize >= 0.7.0 for page scraping

  • FasterCSV >= 1.2.0 for Yahoo CSV format parsing

Install:

  1. gem install gemcutter

  2. gem tumble

  3. gem install graybook

Thanks:

Big thanks to the peoples of Contentfree for making Blackbook. More thanks to everyone else who maintained working forks of Blackbook.

License:

Copyright © 2009, kojul.com Copyright © 2007, Contentfree

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.