I have the same question: how do sites like Facebook access a user's
gmail contacts given their username and password? Does the site need
to register with google? How would one do this?

- Naomi

On Jan 28, 2:45 pm, Timothy Parez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What I don't understand is that
> while nobody seems to know about a data API,
> sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook have the ability
> to search friends through yourGMailaccount.
>
> How does that work?
>
> Timothy.
>
> On 28 Jan 2008, at 20:14, Jeff Fisher (Google) wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Avi,
>
> > A "Contacts API" has been a long standing request:
>
> >http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=25
>
> > Cheers,
> > -Jeff
>
> > On Jan 28, 12:56 am, Avi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
>
> >> Is there any API provied by Google to access theGmailAddress
> >> book  ?
>
> >> Thanks
> >> Avi
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