Gmail API

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Has anyone written or used any rails tools to access the Gmail API from their rails applications?

I want to give my users the option of inviting all of their gmail contacts to my service.

Thanks, Chad

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I also want to know about it

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I used http://rubyforge.org/projects/gmailutils/, though I didn't try accessing contacts with it.

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Thank you that's perfect... and easy to use with contacts.

Chad

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Has anyone written or used any rails tools to access the Gmail API from

their rails applications?

I want to give my users the option of inviting all of their gmail contacts to my service.

I used http://rubyforge.org/projects/gmailutils/ , though I didn’t try accessing contacts with it.

Worked like a charm. Does anyone know of similar plugins for other services such as hotmail, yahoo, msn, aol, etc?

thanks, -harlan

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Worked like a charm. Does anyone know of similar plugins for other services such as hotmail, yahoo, msn, aol, etc?

http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=hotmail&Search=Search http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=yahoo&Search=Search http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=msn&Search=Search http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=aol&Search=Search

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Worked like a charm. Does anyone know of similar plugins for other services

such as hotmail, yahoo, msn, aol, etc?

http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=hotmail&Search=Search http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=yahoo&Search=Search http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=msn&Search=Search http://rubyforge.org/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=aol&Search=Search

duh, thanks! I tried searching google for said items and nothing came.

local search! -harlan

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I've used http://www.getmycontacts.com/

Can't beat the price, although, runs via php so you'd have to consume the web form as some sort of service. I only used the AOL import, but works fairly painlessly. I ended up hacking their default forms to output nicer/cleaner html to make the screen scrape easier.

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Thanks Rick, that's a great package. Does anyone know if gmail.com monitors usage and shuts down accounts and seem to be getting accessed via an API? Is there any sort of rate-limiting? I remember getting 'lockdown in sector 4' a long time ago when using POP to pull emails from Gmail.

Greg

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Just got locked down in Sector 4. Does anyone know how to stay below the lockdown threshhold? I was pausing 1 second between every email. Greg

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I'm using pop to check it now. I tried several ways to get pop3/ssl to work in ruby, but gave up and used python instead.