title: programmatically log into Yahoo/MSN(Hotmail) using python Django code and get the contact list?
body: <p>Is there a way to programmatically log into Yahoo!, providing email id and password as inputs, and fetch the user's contacts?</p>
  
  <p>I've achieved the same thing with Gmail, using BeautifulSoup.py</p>
  
  <p>Yahoo Address book API provides BBAuth, which requires the user to be redirected to Yahoo login page. But I'm looking for a way to authenticate the user with Yahoo without the redirection.
  I have tried this :
  <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ContactGrabber/0.1" rel="nofollow">http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ContactGrabber/0.1</a></p>
  
  <p>but I am getting this Error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Warning (from warnings module):   File
    "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\contactgrabber-0.1-py2.6.egg\contactgrabber\base.py",
    line 31</p>
    
    <p>RuntimeWarning: tempnam is a potential security risk to your program</p>
    
    <p>Invalid UserID/Password</p>
    
    <p>Exception WindowsError: (2, 'The system cannot find the file
    specified', 'C:\DOCUME~1\sjain\LOCALS~1\Temp\2') in > ignored</p>
  </blockquote>