Export Hotmail Contacts

Hotmail provides the ability to import contacts into Hotmail but not the ability to export them. If you use Hotmail in conjunction with Outlook Express how do you get the contacts from hotmail into Outlook Express without having to do it manually?

Extract Contacts Using Extraction Software

To export the contacts you need to extract the addresses form the contacts web page using Email Extraction software.

Email Extractor Lite is a free email extractor script for extracting email addresses from text documents usually web pages. If you are still using email extractor Lite 1.4 or 1.5 you can view the version history and download the latest version- email extractor Lite 1.6.1 at surf7.net. (Note: The download has been removed since writing this article. If anyone knows of a similar free tool please let me know using the contact page.)

To Export the contacts you need to:

Logon to your hotmail account and
Click the contacts tab and open up the contacts page
Select list view and view all of the contacts
Type CTRL+A to select all and CTRL+C to copy the contents
Open email extractor lite -it opens as a web page
Click the mouse pointer in the left window of the extractor page and Type CTRL+V to paste the contents. (fig 1)
Select new line as the formatting character and Click extract.
The addresses appear in the output window (fig 2)
Click copy output (below output window).
Open Notepad again and then Type CTRL+V to paste the addresses into Notepad.
Save it as a .csv file i.e. addresses.csv.

export hotmail contacts -1 Fig 1

export hotmail contacts -2 Fig 2

Note:

You should note that only email addresses are extracted and not the names. You will also need to edit the text file and place a header line if you are going to import it into Outlook Express.

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Export Hotmail Contacts