# Address Book Import

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/address-book-import/113278>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 29, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/address-book-import/113278 "2007-08-29T14:26:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![pradeep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@pradeep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pradeep)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 2:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/address-book-import/113278/1 "2007-08-29T14:26:28Z")

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Hi All,

Is there any way to import address book of rediffmail and indiatimes  
using ruby. Please let me know the details.

Thanks in Advance

Regards,  
Pradeep

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**Author:** ![pradeep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f0a364/32.png) [@pradeep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pradeep)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/address-book-import/113278/2 "2007-08-29T15:52:45Z")

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On 8/29/07, Pradeep [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Is there any way to import address book of rediffmail and indiatimes  
> using ruby. Please let me know the details.

Well, the contacts gem seems to do a good job of Gmail, Y! and  
Hotmail. Why not just use Mechanize to fill in the blanks and scrape  
the sites yourself…? Its really a blast, you just need to keep tabs  
on when the sites change cause scraping is generally very brittle…

Best

–

Kenneth K.  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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