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Give your users access to their up-to-date address book from your website.

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Synchronize your users' address book.

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Plaxo Toolbar for Thunderbird as Example Code

The Thunderbird toolbar allows you to synchronize your existing Thunderbird address book to your Plaxo address book. Download it, unzip it (by changing the .xpi and .jar extension to .zip), and examine the JavaScript files with your favorite editor. Download it now.
You can download and run the Plaxo Toolbar for Thunderbird to understand how it works. To see how it builds and uses the REST API commands, follow these steps:
  1. Download the Plaxo Toolbar for Thunderbird XPI file
    Click here to download the Plaxo Toolbar for Thunderbird. Save the file to a location you can easily remember. You will need to find the file in step 2.
  2. Unzip the .xpi file
    Change the filename from plaxotbird.xpi to plaxotbird.xpi.zip Right click on this file and choose the 'Extract All' option. This will give you the folder plaxotbird.xpi and all of its contents.
  3. Unzip the .jar file
    Open the folder plaxotbird.xpi and the folder in it named chrome. In chrome, there is the plaxotbird.jar file. Change the filename to plaxotbird.jar.zip and right click on this file and choose the 'Extract All' option. This will give you access to a folder named chrome and all of its contents.
  4. Explore the code in the .js files
    In the folder chrome/content/plaxotbird, there are the JavaScript files that perform the synchronization process between the Thunderbird client and the Plaxo server. You can use your favorite editor to view them.

More Examples

Here's a bunch of examples of basic API calls to see the REST API in action.

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