Curl to connect to yahoo, hotmail etcetc

choubix · Jan 15, 2008

hello,

I'd like the users of a website to check if some of its friends are registered on mine and to recommend the website to the friends in tis address book.

to do that I need to access the email account, compare the address book to what I have in my database and then return:
- the names of the people already registered on my website
- leave the option to the user to send an email to its friends to join the website.

I have this query: (wehre "loginhere and passwordhere are the actual values of the login and password)

https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.tries=1&.src=&.md5=
&.hash=&.js=&.last=&promo=&.intl=us&.bypass=&.partner=
&.u=3l6c7pd3oof6v&.v=0&.challenge=o3Z6VTd6oA.BZzPWNOoNCq8_A8ei
&.yplus=&.emailCode=&pkg=&stepid=&.ev=&hasMsgr=0&.chkP=Y
&.done=http%3A%2F%2Fmy.yahoo.com&.pd=_ver=0
&c=&login=LOGINHERE&passwd=PASSWORDHERE

this works if I paste it in the address bar of firefox.

and I am using curl with this script:

<?php


$url = "https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?";
$url_string =  ".tries=1&.src=&.md5=&.hash=&.js=&.last=&promo=&.intl=us&.bypass=";
$url_string .= "&.partner=&.u=3l6c7pd3oof6v&.v=0&.challenge=o3Z6VTd6oA.BZzPWNOoNCq8_A8ei";
$url_string .= "&.yplus=&.emailCode=&pkg=&stepid=&.ev=&hasMsgr=0&.chkP=Y&";
$url_string .= ".done=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.yahoo.com&.pd=&login=LOGINHERE&passwd=PASSWORDHERE";

$url_login = $url . $url_string; 

$ch = curl_init();
// SET OPTIONS

# Fake the user agent as your own browser.
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "{$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']}");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "http://www.yahoo.com");  

# Return the data without printing it
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
# URL
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url_login);


# Put the data in a variable and close curl
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

# Modify the return data
echo $data; 
?>

this returns a blank page...
I am a bit puzzled...

if on that line :

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$url_login);

I use $url instead of $url_string I can see the yahoo login page.

can somehow point me in the right direction please??

thanks!
Alex

bogu · Jan 15, 2008

CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER - FALSE to stop cURL from verifying the peer's certificate. Alternate certificates to verify against can be specified with the CURLOPT_CAINFO option or a certificate directory can be specified with the CURLOPT_CAPATH option. CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST may also need to be TRUE or FALSE if CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER is disabled (it defaults to 2).

From php manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.curl-setopt.php

choubix · Jan 15, 2008

hi bogu,

thanks for your message.
yet i don't quite get it...

could you be a bit more specific (since english is not my primary language...)

thanks in advance

choubix · Jan 15, 2008

ok, after searching on a couple of website I got the hang of the SSL connection.

still it doesnt work...
if anyone knows a way of making my script work I'd be extremely grateful

thanks

sheriff26 · Jun 10, 2010

hi all .. I found a lot of examples to extract yahoo address book, but no one worked ...
here is one made from scratch works !!

set_time_limit(0);


	$php_userid = 'username';
	$php_password = 'password';


	$cookie_file_path = "./cookie.txt"; // Please set your Cookie File path


	$fp = fopen($cookie_file_path,'wb');
	fclose($fp);
	$agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)";
	$reffer = "http://mail.yahoo.com/";

	// log out.
	$LOGINURL = "http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hoqklmn/M=289534.5473431.6553392.5333790/D=mail/S=150500014:HEADR/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1135053978/A=2378664/R=4/SIG=133erplvs/*http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?logout=1&.done=http://mail.yahoo.com/&.src=ym&.lg=us&.intl=us";
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$LOGINURL);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
	$result = curl_exec ($ch);
	curl_close ($ch);

	//1. Get first login page to parse hash_u,hash_challenge

	$LOGINURL = "http://mail.yahoo.com";
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$LOGINURL);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
	$loginpage_html = curl_exec ($ch);
	curl_close ($ch);

	preg_match_all("/name=\".u\" value=\"(.*?)\"/", $loginpage_html, $arr_hash_u);
	preg_match_all("/name=\".challenge\" value=\"(.*?)\"/", $loginpage_html, $arr_hash_challenge);

	$hash_u = $arr_hash_u[1][0];
	$hash_challenge = $arr_hash_challenge[1][0];

	// 2- Post Login Data to Page https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?

	$LOGINURL = "https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?";
	$POSTFIELDS = '.tries=1&.src=ym&.md5=&.hash=&.js=&.last=&promo=&.intl=us&.bypass=&.partner=&.u='.$hash_u.'&.v=0&.challenge='.$hash_challenge.'&.yplus=&.emailCode=&pkg=&stepid=&.ev=&hasMsgr=0&.chkP=Y&.done=http%3A%2F%2Fmail.yahoo.com&login='.$php_userid.'&passwd='.$php_password;

	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$LOGINURL);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$POSTFIELDS);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $reffer);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
	$result = curl_exec ($ch);
	curl_close ($ch);

	preg_match_all("/replace\(\"(.*?)\"/", $result, $arr_url);
	$WelcomeURL = $arr_url[1][0];

	// 3- Redirect to Welcome page. (Login Success)

	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$WelcomeURL);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $reffer);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
	$result = curl_exec ($ch);
	curl_close ($ch);
	// echo $result;

	// 4- Get Address Book.
	$addressURL = 'http://address.mail.yahoo.com/index.php?.src=classic';

	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$addressURL);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $reffer);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
	$result = curl_exec ($ch);
	curl_close ($ch);

	// 5- show Address Book.
	$addressURL = 'http://address.mail.yahoo.com/?1=&VPC=print&_rand=363618207&_src=classic';
	$POSTFIELDS ='&submit[action_display]=Display%20for%20Printing&field[allc]=1&field[style]=detailed';
	$ch = curl_init();
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$addressURL);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,$POSTFIELDS);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $reffer);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $cookie_file_path);
	curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $cookie_file_path);
	$result = curl_exec ($ch);
	curl_close ($ch);

	$res = strip_tags($result,"<small>"); 
	$res = str_replace("&nbsp;","",$res);
	$lines = explode("\n",$res);

	$array = array();	
	foreach($lines as $key => $val){
		$yahooid = $this->get_string_between($val, "<small>", "</small>");
		if(strlen($yahooid) > 3) 
		{
			//echo $yahooid."<br />";
			array_push($array, $yahooid); 
		}
	}
	$this->view->iduri = $array;

bradgrafelman · Jun 10, 2010

Looks like it would be a LOT more efficient, reliable, etc. if you simply used the Yahoo! Address Book API like you're supposed to.

Curl to connect to yahoo, hotmail etcetc

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Bbogu

Cchoubix

Cchoubix

Ssheriff26

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