Yahoo! Messenger (sometimes abbreviated YIM or YM) is an advertisement-supported instant messaging client and associated protocol provided by Yahoo!.
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How can I send message to MSN contact using YAHOO IM SDK
I am writing a IM client and am using YAHOO SDK ported to C#. I am able to send and receive message to and from yahoo contacts by calling a getContactList method in the sdk and just then just simply send message to that contact. However, the…

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Unable to get crumb for Yahoo Messenger API
I am writing a Java application to connect to Yahoo Messenger. I am reusing the java code found on Yahoo's Github, but am running into the following error:
java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL
Here is the full…

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Launch an application using HTML
I know that
Send me a message
will launch Yahoo Messenger.
can I create something like this to launch MSWord or my own application?

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Monitor Yahoo! Instant Messages in Python?
I am trying to add some security to my computer at home and would like to have a copy of all Yahoo! IMs sent to me. I am using Python 2.6 on Windows.
I would also like to have every URL in Internet Explorer sent to me.

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Instant Messenger: How does gtalk/yahoo messenger populate the contact list?
We are currently working on a small IM project which pretty much works like gtalk and yahoo messenger. We came across a problem that puzzled us how gtalk/ym populate their contact lists. Given that the user has let's say more or less 500 contacts,…

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How to make a Yahoo 10 IM Auto Reply program in C++?
How to make a Yahoo Auto Reply program in C++?

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Does Yahoo prevents checking online/offline status?
I want to add yahoo chat icon inside my website. To detect ID status (online/offline), and opening messenger tool, I've wrote the PHP codes below (given from a website). But it always returns ID is offline. Does Yahoo prevents checking status?…

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How can I detect if a user is invisible on Yahoo Messenger
There are some existing online services (like this one) where you can enter a yahoo user, and it will tell you if the user is online, invisible or offline.
Is there a way I can do that? (using some Yahoo API? or using some tricks?)
Note: The…

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PHP Issue - function output is 000
I've been trying to make a CLI application that logs Yahoo! messenger login dates/times for certain users using a third party, but this isn't really getting anywhere. Even though checking iself works when used individually, it does not seem to when…

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Yahoo Messenger Library C#
I'm planning to create Yahoo Messenger bot using C#, but until now, I cant find a reliable Yahoo Messenger, except in PHP, Java and C++. Is there a library like this in C#?

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Chat on behalf of user in GTalk,yahoo, MSN?
I want to develop application in Asp.net in Which user can send message to me and on behalf of them i need to send chat message to Gtalk,MSN or Yahoo. and also recieve messages for Same.
Please let me know if anyone have idea?
Thanks in Advance..

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Yahoo Messenger API For PHP
I've asked the same question before for Flex, but due to some restrictions, I'm gonna have to do all the communication from the back end.
I googled all day, I just can't find anything that works.
Thanks,

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Can you capture the event of sending instant message from Yahoo Messenger and replace text using C#?
I've just made a quick research about that but there is nothing about that in C#.
Is this a lost cause or it can be made?

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Yahoo messenger API - error when open a long-lived connection for Comet-style notification
I'm trying to get Yahoo messenger notifications (comet style) to work on my Android app but I got a problem:
I have all the oauth tokens + IM cookie, I make the call to notify server but it responds with
403 Bad IM cookie or URI credential
The IM…

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Yahoo Messenger API For Flex
Is there an API to implement Yahoo chat in Flex? Or at least some calls?

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