This will/should be possible though the data API, these have not been
implemented/made available by most containers yet though.

See
http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/docs/gdata/people/developers_guide_protocol.html


On 12/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Are you sure that's the only way to do this?  The pubs that jamerson
> pointed to
> above seem to imply that you can have the user login to their account
> (either through ClientLogin or Authsub methods), then access the
> people/friends/activity data directly, without needing a gadget on the
> target website.
>
> On Dec 18, 8:36 am, Didier DURAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > HI Frank,
> >
> > To achieve what you want, you have to write a gadget that will be
> > installed by the user (as a sign of its willingness to have his data
> > data exported to your website)
> >
> > That gadget will export the date through IGFetchContent for example
> >
> > That's what I did in my IGCHeck gadget: have a look
> athttp://www.toojoor.com/blog/2007/12/09/opensocial-containers-check-go...
> >
> > Let me know if you need more
> > didier
> >
> > On Dec 17, 10:05 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > New user question - looking through the OpenSocial Javascript API, it
> > > only
> > > seems to be for writing gadgets that are running directly on the
> > > social websites.
> > > (i.e. newFetchPersonRequest assumes you are already logged in)
> > > What I want is to be able to write code that runs on my website, but
> > > retrieves
> > > person/friend data from the social websites like Myspace or Orkut.
> > > Is this possible, and if so, how?
> >
>

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