cardmagic / contacts

== Welcome to Contacts

Contacts is a universal interface to grab contact list information from various providers including Hotmail, Gmail and 
Yahoo.

== Download

* gem install contacts
* http://rubyforge.org/projects/contacts
* svn co svn://rubyforge.org/var/svn/contacts

== Background

For a long time, the only way to get a list of contacts from your free online email accounts was with proprietary PHP 
scripts that would cost you $50. The act of grabbing that list is a simple matter of screen scrapping and this library 
gives you all the functionality you need. Thanks to the generosity of the highly popular Rails website MOG 
(http://mog.com) for allowing this library to be released open-source to the world. It is easy to extend this library to 
add new free email providers, so please contact the author if you would like to help.

== Usage

  Contacts::Hotmail.new(login, password).contacts # => [["name", "foo@bar.com"], ["another name", "bow@wow.com"]]
  Contacts::Yahoo.new(login, password).contacts
  Contacts::Gmail.new(login, password).contacts
  
  Contacts.new(:gmail, login, password).contacts
  Contacts.new(:hotmail, login, password).contacts
  Contacts.new(:yahoo, login, password).contacts
  
  Contacts.guess(login, password).contacts

Notice there are three ways to use this library so that you can limit the use as much as you would like in your 
particular application. The Contacts.guess method will automatically concatenate all the address book contacts from each 
of the successful logins in the case that a username password works across multiple services.

== Examples

See the examples/ directory.

== Authors

* Lucas Carlson from MOG (mailto:lucas@rufy.com) - http://mog.com

== Contributors

* Britt Selvitelle from Twitter (mailto:anotherbritt@gmail.com) - http://twitter.com
* Tony Targonski from GigPark (mailto:tony@gigpark.com) - http://gigpark.com

This library is released under the terms of the BSD.