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About contacts API and owner's permission

I appreciate that you can give me answer for the following questions.
1. How to understand the follow statement.

"To retrieve contacts of contacts you will need a separate operation and each contact owner's permission."(refered to contacts API document).

Iscontact owner's permission required before i can check his contacts list?

2. If the answer above is yes, then, how to achieve this purpose?

3. If I have signed in through yahooid and password, is it still needed for contacts list checking out by contacts API?

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  • zj
  • Dec 9, 2009
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  • What the statement means is that if you want to collect user data from the friend or your friend, you will need to make one request to capture the contacts of your friend and then another to collect the contacts of the friend of your friend. Within the scope of an application, the user that you are trying to get contacts for must have granted your application permission to access their contacts (by adding the app) before you can collect their contacts.

    The contacts API will require that you use OAuth to access it: http://developer.yahoo.com/oauth but we have a number of SDKs available that abstract out the OAuth pains: http://developer.yahoo.com/social/sdk/ . I would suggest using one of those libraries to create the OAuth calls to the contacts api.

    Jonathan LeBlanc
    Technology Evangelist
    Yahoo! Developer Network
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