Issues in fetching address book to fetch Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Twitter and Facebook contact list in Ruby on Rails [closed]

Question

Came across the Contacts plugin while searching.

But as per the usage, described in the readme file. It requires username and password to fetch contacts. But that's not a good approach.

Answer 1

For Gmail or for your specific purpose: Gmail Contacts.

For Yahoo contacts, as far as I know, Contacts seems to be the one that is used. If someone has a better alternative. Please do mention.

For Twitter, I would highly recommend the Twitter gem.

For Facebook, you already got your Facebook gem sorted. However, I personally use FB Graph.

Edit:

Hmm, I tried having a look at the doc. No examples mentioned. Although it does mention:

See sample/authsub.rb for an example which uses GmailContacts

Which is nowhere to be found. Perhaps a quick email to the author might help?

It also seems that the the Contacts gem is quite well documented online. If you can find a way to work it out with your project requirements. Then you can use this as a universal solution for other email providers.

Alternatively, another way for contacts retrieval, I found this which can be useful.