Address Book XML/JSON API Developer Guide

BBAuth described above satisfies both user authentication and application authentication requirements. See the BBAuth documentation on how to obtain the cookie and WSSID needed to access the Address Book XML/JSON API.

The following example shows how to authenticate users and the application.

$appid = // The application ID registered with YDN
$cookie = // The cookie obtained from the login WS
$wssid = // The WSSID string obtained from the login WS

$url = "http://address.yahooapis.com/v1/searchContacts?format=json
        &fields=name&email.is=happy.user%40yahoo.com";
$url .= "&appid=$appid&WSSID=$wssid";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Cookie: $cookie"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$result = curl_exec($ch);