Check mail is registered on Facebook or not

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C#5.0

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Hi,
i have some mails and want to check if those mails already registered on Facebook and Hotmail or not .
any help ?

Posted 24-Nov-14 2:06am

Heba Kamel

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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 24-Nov-14 8:19am

- not a good idea, why not simply use their API. Did you even look into their API at all?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Nov-14 11:43am

You are right, the idea is really bad. I would say: it such check was possible, I would never use such services. They are not supposed to leak member's information, especially such sensitive as non-public e-mail.
—SA

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 24-Nov-14 11:45am

Exactly, the only possible way to do this is to create a new account, if created then there was no such email account present - uh oh now there is one! :D

Heba Kamel 25-Nov-14 8:08am

:Dok, how i can create new account from my desktop application ? :D

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 25-Nov-14 8:16am

Same - use the API, or to be precise, use a WebClient and send an HTTP request to their server but again a stupid idea Heba.

Heba Kamel 25-Nov-14 14:32pm

Why stupid idea? i have some mails and want to know if those already registered on Facebook and Hotmail or not (that's a project purpose)
Do you mean stupid on purpose or on the way to solve it ?

Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan 25-Nov-14 15:23pm

I mean stupid the way to solve it, I mean if you are to check whether it exists or not then you would have to try some form, like register - if you register, voila! It is there.

One idea I can give you, is that you should send an email to that account. If the email account exists the email would be recieved otherwise the email will bounce back and your client would tell you that the address was not found. Try this one.

Heba Kamel 26-Nov-14 15:33pm

Ok, sending email will solve my problem with Hotmail
but Facebook ?

Heba Kamel 24-Nov-14 10:00am

No, i didn't know more about Facebook API
but I'll search on it now
thanks..

Heba Kamel 24-Nov-14 11:31am

Do you have any links ?

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