blackbook gem

Gem details

Blackbook automates the nitty-gritty of importing contacts from various services and files and exporting them as VCard, XML, or simple Hash. Utilize those contacts from services like AOL, GMail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail or CSV to help your social networking site become GIGANTIC overnight! You‘ll be able to get big and sell for millions before anyone figures out it‘s just like every other social network.

Websitehttp://contentfree.rubyforge.org/blackbook/ Tags Contacts, VCard, AOL, GMail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, csv

Documentation

Install the Gem: 
gem install blackbook

GEM REQUIREMENTS:

* Mechanize and its dependencies, for interacting with online providers
* Fastercsv for reading CSV, Mechanize >= 0.7.0 for page scraping

EXAMPLE
# An example of fetching Gmail contacts - by default, returns an array of hashes with :name and :email 

  contacts = Blackbook.get :username => 'me@gmail.com', :password => 'whatever'



# or returning XML 

  contacts = Blackbook.get :username => 'me@gmail.com', :password => 'whatever', :as => :xml



# or importing from a CSV file 

  contacts = Blackbook.get :csv, :file => #


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