Hackin inta' ICQ!!!

How do you find out if an ICQ user is online?
I'd like a function that accepts an icq number and returns true or false as to whether or not they are online.

Also can you get other info on users too...like their last ip, age, nick name, address etc... an ocx or dll will do, but I'd rather have the actual code.

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Matthew Ralston
E-Mail: m.ralston@mediavault.co.uk
ICQ:31422892 (http://www.thebluelink.cjb.net/icq.html)
Web Sites:The Blue Link (http://www.thebluelink.cjb.net) My Home Page (http://mralston.cjb.net)

[KENNNY]

well go download icq :)
or askj them for their source code.. fat chance

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[CarlosTheJackal]

Hey- Check www.icq.com (http://www.icq.com) somewhere on the site they have a developers sdk that i think includes functions for seeing if a user is online (plus a ton of other stuff) in a dll
Hope this helps

Thnx for your time,
CarlosTheJackal

[lumin]

you can use some of their ocx's that are installed when you install icq..(look in your system folder or use VB to browse it) or you can just install a old version.. (it somehow got a conflict with the newer versions so you can see the users IP)

anyway I got a ICQ spoofer that can read the IP from the ICQ number. but since I think that you are gona abuse it I wont give it to you :)


-Lumin

[KENNNY]

and what exactly do u use it for? :)

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[Drinky]

I know how to do it in HTML

<img src="http://online.mirabilis.com/scripts/online.dll?icq=16061000&img=5" width="19" height="18">


This piece of HTML will show the icq flower in green if I am online when you view the page, and i Red if I am offline.

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[cjwares]

Yeah that ICQ DLL can be dl'ed from here

http://www.icq.com/api/

hope that's what u wanted.

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[This message has been edited by cjwares (edited 01-08-2000).]

Well, well... some of you trust me, some don't! Thanks for the tip, Kennn, that's a lot of help...but I'm already using ICQ!

All I really want to do is make a program that launches ICQ when certain users come online...not runn it all the time 'cos it takes up resources an it's distracting an I'm just bee'in fussy an cos I want to OK?! (An no, I don't really want to do any major hacks - that Subject Title was just to grab attention, an no, I'm not tryin' to get peoples IP addresses!)

Might have a look at the ocx's though...I never even thought about using them...some programmer I turned out to be!! :)

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Matthew Ralston
E-Mail: m.ralston@mediavault.co.uk
ICQ:31422892 (http://www.thebluelink.cjb.net/icq.html)
Web Sites:The Blue Link (http://www.thebluelink.cjb.net) My Home Page (http://mralston.cjb.net) (Not up at the moment!)

Thanks for the "ICQ API" link, it's downloading now... :)

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Matthew Ralston
E-Mail: m.ralston@mediavault.co.uk
ICQ:31422892 (http://www.thebluelink.cjb.net/icq.html)
Web Sites:The Blue Link (http://www.thebluelink.cjb.net) My Home Page (http://mralston.cjb.net) (Not up at the moment!)

Has anybody else used the ICQ API DLL? I'm trying to declare and use functions from it like the normal Windows API and can I get it to work?

For example, one function in this DLL is ICQAPICall_GetOnlineListDetails. Can somebody give me a demo on how to declare and use this function? The documentation says:

BOOL WINAPI ICQAPICall_GetOnlineListDetails(int &iCount, BPSICQAPI_User **ppUsers);

In (Arguments): None
Out (Returns): iCount, ppUsers
iCount - the number of Users to follow
ppUsers - a pointer to the users’ array.
Description: The data returned is in the order of the online list, top to bottom. The users array is initialized with the user’s ICQ# (m_iUIN field) and the Window Handle (m_hFloatWindow) if the user is “floating”. The users array should be freed by calling ICQAPIUtil_FreeUsers to free each user structure and the array itself.

That's gobbledy-geek to me!! Help!

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Matthew Ralston
E-Mail: m.ralston@mediavault.co.uk
ICQ:31422892 (http://www.thebluelink.cjb.net/icq.html)
Web Sites:The Blue Link (http://www.thebluelink.cjb.net) My Home Page (http://mralston.cjb.net) (Not up at the moment!)

[Mc Brain]

You could try this way:


Private Declare Function ICQAPICall_GetOnlineListDetails Lib "ICQMapi.dll" _
(iCount As Integer, ppUsers() As BSICQAPI_User) As Boolean



Despite it answers with success when you call it, and get the number of people online, the array of struct (ppUsers() ) remains empty. Let me know if you make it work.

I guess you already know you should always call this function once:


Private Declare Function ICQAPICall_SetLicenseKey Lib "ICQMapi.dll" _
(ByVal pszName As String, ByVal pszPassword As String, ByVal pszLicense As String) As Boolean


where the arguments are the one you got in the email confirmation when you downloaded the API.