Importing user/buddy lists from instant messangers

rsitogp · May 24th, 2001, 12:48 PM

I'm working on an instant messanger, and wanted to allow users to import their user/buddy lists from AIM/ICQ/MSNMessanger?

Thanks in advance!

rsitogp · May 24th, 2001, 10:50 PM

anyone?

**sail3005** · May 25th, 2001, 07:22 AM

You didn't post any problems...Did you start writing the code? What are you having trouble with?

rsitogp · May 25th, 2001, 12:14 PM

How can import user/buddy lists from instant messangers?

**sail3005** · May 25th, 2001, 06:42 PM

Ok, well, in the AIM buddy lists, if you open it in notepad, you can see all of the screen names in the list. Maybe you could parse down and get all the names you want.

rsitogp · May 26th, 2001, 01:44 AM

Can you give me an example of it, I don't use aim.

**Olly** · May 26th, 2001, 04:41 AM

There's no sense of doing that. Let's say you get the users list of icq. And then? You will have their names but they won't have your program and just having names and icq numbers won't give you the possibility fo find them.

**sail3005** · May 26th, 2001, 11:08 AM

Yeah, unless you can somehow integreate all the client together, like ICQ, MSN, AIM, etc. it is pointless. They are just random names then.

**Sastraxi** · May 26th, 2001, 11:12 AM

Well, if you click it mebbe you could go to their profile on the MSN/ICQ/AIM page, or whatever.

**sail3005** · May 26th, 2001, 11:24 AM

Ok...but still, who wants to look at someones profile if they can't talk to them?

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