Is it possible to programmatically talk to MSN messenger / Live messenger?

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Published on 2009-02-03T11:49:43Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 6:11 UTC
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Hi chaps, I've been researching how to interact with the MSN messenger / Live messenger service programmatically and I can't find any real documentation on this. The documentation for the Live services only seem to implement in Javascript (they're here: http://dev.live.com/Messenger/)

It would be possible to reverse engineer this API to obtain the web services that it is actually using, but I am guessing that they didn't provide the sources for a reason (which means that those web services aren't meant for direct access).

However I can't find any other official APIs that allow programmatic access (more specifically no APIs that mention sockets, web services, or a proper programming language like Java or .Net).

Does anyone know if an API like that exists?

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