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How do I get other email addresses?

How does Quora get the email addresses for the "Invite People to Join Quora" section?

  • On the right side of the home page, Quora displays your Facebook friends who have not joined Quora.  When you click "Invite" an email is sent to that person.  How does Quora get these email addresses?  In other words, how does Quora get the email addresses of your Facebook friends who are NOT on Quora?

  • Answer:

    One of the ways Quora imports email addresses is from Google Contacts API.  Once they get the email address, getting information from Facebook is easily done using the graph APIs.

Jaya Hangal at Quora Visit the source

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My guess: Quora gets email address of a person (who's not on Quora yet) when an answer, question or invitation is sent to them. Quora pulls up their Facebook ID (FB API supports this) Now, Quora looks up this FB ID in the friend's graph of all the registered users, and displays the FB friends invite feature to them.

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