How do I retrieve Hotmail contacts with python

How can I retrieve contacts from hotmail with python?

Is there an开发者_开发百科y example?

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Hotmail: Windows Live Contacts API

If a python interface doesn't exist you may have to resort to screen scraping.

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use octazen, but you have to pay for it

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IIRC Hotmail has POP access, so just use the poplib library.

Usage is something like this (NOT tested):

hotmail = poplib.POP3_SSL('pop3.live.com', 995)
hotmail.user(USERNAME)
hotmail.pass_(PASSWORD)

message_count = len(hotmail.list()[1])

for i in range(message_count):
    for message in hotmail.retr(i+1)[1]
        print message

Some connectivity info here (might be old).