Here is the code to import Gmail address book using curl and php. This is very helpful if we want to import the contacts into our site from Gmail. Give a try and please comment on this script.
<?php
$location = "";
$cookiearr = array();
$csv_source_encoding='utf-8';
#function get_contacts, accepts as arguments $login (the username) and $password
#returns array of: array of the names and array of the emails if login successful
#otherwise returns 1 if login is invalid and 2 if username or password was not specified
function get_contacts($login, $password)
{
#the globals will be updated/used in the read_header function
global $csv_source_encoding;
global $location;
global $cookiearr;
global $ch;
#check if username and password was given:
if ((isset($login) && trim($login)=="") || (isset($password) && trim($password)==""))
{
#return error code if they weren't
return 2;
}
#initialize the curl session
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,"https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth?service=mail");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, "");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADERFUNCTION, 'read_header');
#get the html from gmail.com
$html = curl_exec($ch);
$matches = array();
$actionarr = array();
$action = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLoginAuth?service=mail";
#parse the login form:
#parse all the hidden elements of the form
preg_match_all('/]*name\="([^"]+)"[^>]*value\="([^"]*)"[^>]*>/si', $html, $matches);
$values = $matches[2];
$params = "";
$i=0;
foreach ($matches[1] as $name)
{
$params .= "$name=" . urlencode($values[$i]) . "&";
++$i;
}
$login = urlencode($login);
$password = urlencode($password);
#submit the login form:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL,$action);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params ."Email=$login&Passwd=$password&PersistentCookie=");
$html = curl_exec($ch);
#test if login was successful:
if (!isset($cookiearr['GX']) && (!isset($cookiearr['LSID']) || $cookiearr['LSID'] == "EXPIRED"))
{
return 1;
}
#this is the new csv url:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://mail.google.com/mail/contacts/data/export?exportType=ALL&groupToExport=&out=GMAIL_CSV");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPGET, 1);
$html = curl_exec($ch);
$html = iconv ($csv_source_encoding,'utf-8',$html);
$csvrows = explode("\n", $html);
array_shift($csvrows);
$names = array();
$emails = array();
foreach ($csvrows as $row)
{
if (preg_match('/^((?:"[^"]*")|(?:[^,]*)).*?([^,@]+@[^,]+)/', $row, $matches))
{
$names[] = trim( ( trim($matches[1] )=="" ) ? current(explode("@",$matches[2])) : $matches[1] , '" ');
$emails[] = trim( $matches[2] );
}
}
return array($names, $emails);
}
#read_header is essential as it processes all cookies and keeps track of the current location url
#leave unchanged, include it with get_contacts
function read_header($ch, $string)
{
global $location;
global $cookiearr;
global $ch;
global $csv_source_encoding;
$length = strlen($string);
if (preg_match("/Content-Type: text\\/csv; charset=([^\s;$]+)/",$string,$matches))
$csv_source_encoding=$matches[1];
if(!strncmp($string, "Location:", 9))
{
$location = trim(substr($string, 9, -1));
}
if(!strncmp($string, "Set-Cookie:", 11))
{
$cookiestr = trim(substr($string, 11, -1));
$cookie = explode(';', $cookiestr);
$cookie = explode('=', $cookie[0]);
$cookiename = trim(array_shift($cookie));
$cookiearr[$cookiename] = trim(implode('=', $cookie));
}
$cookie = "";
if(trim($string) == "")
{
foreach ($cookiearr as $key=>$value)
{
$cookie .= "$key=$value; ";
}
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIE, $cookie);
}
return $length;
}
#function to trim the whitespace around names and email addresses
#used by get_contacts when parsing the csv file
function trimvals($val)
{
return trim ($val, "\" \n");
}
function getContacts($username = null, $password = null){
$login = $username;
$password = $password;
$resultarray = get_contacts($login, $password);
foreach($resultarray as $res){
$emailArray['email'] = $res;
}
return $emailArray;
}
print_r(getContacts("GMAIL_USERNAME","GMAIL_PASSWORD"));
?>
