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Check Who is Invisible/Online on Yahoo Messenger!

by Rahul Bansal (492) on 1 March, 2008 | Categories : Hacks, Messenger, Yahoo

To Check Online Status:

This will work only if user is online and NOT into invisible mode. Invisible part is covered later…

First Official Way: Go to Yahoos profile directory and check target user profile. Say you want to check status of someone (where someone is Yahoo ID). Now suffix someone to URL http://profiles.yahoo.com/ so it will become http://profiles.yahoo.com/someone. Open final URL in browser and the profile will have status indicator!

Another Way: There are many simple sites which takes Yahoo ID and returns status of Yahoo user. I have tested http://www.blockstatus.com/yahoo/status-checker successfully!

This part is not a hack but official Yahoo feature documented here.

If you want PHP code to create a status-checker page of your own, this page may help you.

To Check Invisible Status:

I tested and used a third-party program named Buddy-Spy! Unlike above this requires a Yahoo account. I strongly discourage using your own Yahoo ID. You better create a new one!

Following is a screenshot of my test result, which says everything.

Yahoo Visible

Also point to note is that I was not in friend-list of Yahoo account used for testing!

Buddy-Spy Links: Download | Homepage | User Guide

Update: Try http://yahoostatus.ro/. Its tested, working fine and web-based! (Added October 7, 2008)

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Wulf on March 4, 2008

hey, I know of another simple trick to know if your friends are online…Open a window for a chat with them, then load the Doodle IMVironment…It will not load until your friend has your chat window open…send an IM like “hi” or something like that…This will open a chat window on their computer if they are online and the IMVironment will load completely…If it doesn’t, then it means that they really are offline…If u are on the recieving end of this trick, just disable your
IMVironments…
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Rahul Bansal on March 5, 2008

@Wulf
Is this works with new Yahoo messenger?
Actually I tried it on version 8 and above but got no results!
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soleh on March 7, 2008

Probably we can just BUZZ everybody in the group by using send to all. We might get answer from some of them.hehe
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Rahul Bansal on March 9, 2008

@soleh
Ya.. That cud be a solution too!
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Wulf on March 9, 2008

I don’t know how it works in the new versions, all my friends have disabled IMVs…
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Rahul Bansal on March 11, 2008

@Wulf
I guess it stopped working from version 7.
Cause all posts/articles mentioning IMVs hack are quite old now.
By the way some day this will also get outdated… so lets stick too wats working today!
Anyway thanks for useful comments…
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ankit agarwal on March 12, 2008

hey rahul…ths is really vry long time whn i last surf net.n ure’s site..its nice 2 c a complete change of luks of the site…watevr…ths is really a vry gud thg i learned from ths page..a new way to know if someone is oofline or online….thrs one mre site i know 2 search the same…”www.xeeber.com”u can evn add it 2 ure site…n i dnt knoe if u hav already put ths here ..bt if not i want 2 let our frns know…”HOW TO LOGIN MULTIPLE USERS IN YAHOO” VIA U.
U CAN ADD IT IF U WANT
WELLL TO STRT WIT…
1.GO TO RUN IN STRT MENU
2.TYPE “REGEDIT” THERE..PRESS OK
3.A PAGE CALLED REGISTRY EDITOR WILL OPEN
4.THN AT LEFT SIDE…U WILL FIND “MY COMPUTER ICON”IN WHICH THR R SEVERAL SUB FOLDER…
5.CHOOSE HKEY_CURRENT_USER
6.THR AGAIN U WILL FIN MANY SUBFOLDER’S…
7.CHOOSE ONE NAMED “SOFTWARE”
8.IN SOFTWARE THR U WILL FIND A YAHOO FOLDER
9.IN YAHOO FOLDER…GO TO “PAGER”
10.IN PAGER>TEST
11.CLICK ON TEST..THN AT RIGHT SIDE..ON RIGHT CLICKING…IN NEW..CHOOSE DWORD VALUE…
12.A NEW ICON GET CREATED…RENAME IT “PLURAL”
13.NOW..RIGHT CLICK ON PLURAL..THN CLICK ON “MODIFY” AND JST CHANGE THE VALUE TO “1″
14.YOU ARE DONE…NOW YOU CAN OPEN AS MANY MESSENGERS AS U WANT…N LOGIN WIT DIFFENRENT NAMES….
THXX…ANKIT AGARWAL
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ankit agarwal on March 12, 2008

I CAN SHRE SUM GUD TECH OF HACKING,,IF U WANT URE USERS 2 BE SO…HEHE…..DO RTE ME BAK…
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adi on March 19, 2008

hey this buddy spy thing is nice….but is there any way to know people who r invisible on G MAIL CHAT OR ON GTALK???? pls tell me ! thanks in advance ! i got information on some pidgin or so…it claims (i havent yet tried) that it will tell me that who have deleted me from their friends list…. its 10mb huge file so any other way ???? pls tell ! thanks in advance !
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Rahul Bansal on March 20, 2008

@adi
Gmail Chat invisible feature is quite new…
So I guess it will take time before someone discover a hack for it.
Of course, if I happen to find something I will post it here!

You may subscribe to my RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic updates in future!

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adi on March 23, 2008

thanks rahul for replying me and thanks to ur e mail alerts option i subscribed it and came here as soon as i got alerted very usefull facility :)thanks to U! THAKS TO TECHNOLOGY!….
so….
mmmmm ok ….i understand that gmail invisible thingy is quiet new ….i also searched alot for the hack i want…. want to know who is UNDER THE CLOAK ! lol …ok i than u in advance for saying “Of course, if I happen to find something I will post it here! ” i will keep visiting this page then uuuuuuhhhhhhh now off to see recent entry of netmeter
bye take very good care !
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Rahul Bansal on March 24, 2008

@adi
Thanks for your appreciation buddy!
Now a small correction, by “…I will post it here…” I meant I will post new hack on this blog.
So instead of keep visiting this page,
you can subscribe to RSS feed or email alert to receive automatic in future!

If you choose to go for email alert, you will receive whatever all future posts right into your inbox!
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adi on March 24, 2008

u not poting new hack here?? not here ?? … mmmmm ok so i am going to bookmark ur whole site lol so i will come and visit ur workshop and keep track when that required hack will be out and i hope as soon as it comes out somewhere in internet,, it wont take much time to reach to this workshop site lol …. so… now off to book mark whole homepage of this site here i go to home page and here i press ctrl+D lol
bytheway,, i am ashamed to tell that i know nothing about this feed thing neither about digg nor delicious uffffff i must search wikipedia for it…. RSS i know is just one …political…erm…social party in india :P…. ok ok i am going to learn about this “FEED” THINGY at my OWN ,, I dont want spoon “FEED” this time
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Rahul Bansal on March 24, 2008

@Adi
Hey its k buddy!
Simplest you can do is put your email id in email alert form and click submit.
You will get a confirmation email from feedburner service. You have to open it and follow confirmation link .
Once you done with that anything I post here will be sent to your email address automatically…
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jashen on April 9, 2008

i installed the spyware thing. i have 1 query…well i created another yahoo address.i checked the status for my ‘real’ address by signing into yahoo. lets say my email ad. is like sammy@yahoo.com. what if there are different addresses such as sammy@yahoo.co.in or sammy@yahoo.co.uk
how do u know which address you’re checking for…i had this problem as i was trying to check the status of a @yahoo.co.in address…
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Rahul Bansal on April 9, 2008

@jashen
I got your point!
But when say first sam creates an account - sam@yahoo.co.in, other sam(s) won’t be able to create - sam@yahoo.com or sam@yahoo.co.uk or anything in another country level domain.
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Jack on April 10, 2008

There is a one click way to do this with a tiny javascript snippet saved as a bookmark in your toolbar (a bookmarklet)

copy this code, save it as a bookmark

javascript:void(q=prompt(’Enter Yahoo! user ID’,”));if(q)void(location=’ http://opi.yahoo.com/online?u=‘+q+’&m=g&t=2′+escape(q))

click on it in your toolbar, you will be prompted for the username…..
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Rahul Bansal on April 10, 2008

Jack
Will surely try this!
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tinku on April 15, 2008

but instead we can use thse sitez na

http://www.xeeber.com

http://www.invisible.ir

[:)]
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Rahul Bansal on April 15, 2008

@tinku
Thanks I will try them.
Actually I tried xeeber at the time of writing this article but it was giving error, so did not mention about it.
I will test again both now..

Update:Both are not working! Giving “Server is busy” error message.
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Tim on April 16, 2008

http://lolemxixon.com/yahoo you can check invisible there.
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Neo on April 17, 2008

xeeber and invisible.ir dont work anymore
this one is better at finding meebo users
http://invisible-scanner.com/
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sushant on April 17, 2008

hi friends
may i find how i know of my friends online on orkut
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Rahul Bansal on April 18, 2008

@sushant
There is no formal way but generally friends shown in profile or homepage sidebar are sorted accoriding to their online status.
Order is - Most recently online friend shown first!
So you can count on it somewhat…
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Rahul Bansal on April 18, 2008

@Neo
Thanks Neo.
Link given by you really works…
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Rahul Bansal on April 18, 2008

@Tim
Thanks to u 2 buddy!
http://lolemxixon.com/yahoo also works…

But I guess their server is having downtime issues…
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tinku on April 19, 2008

they work for me seriously
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ollie on April 21, 2008

buddy spy works well for me.
What I want to know is how to tell when an ID was first registered or what the person ‘join’date was.
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Rahul Bansal on April 24, 2008

@tinku
Yep… Thanks for positive feedback…

@Ollie
I guess finding joining date will be hard. It may not be available publicly…
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adi on April 24, 2008

i have a wild method to guess joining date lol its not accurate but just for fun u can try this…. applicable for yahoo only… see,, normally atleast a non techie person doesnt update his or her profile in yahoo account… so when we see yahoo profile it says last modified or last updated and i consider that date is the joining date itself … just a wild guess…
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tester on April 25, 2008

i download buddy spy2.2.19, i can not use bot to log in yahoo sever, someone can help me? thank you.
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Dunn on April 26, 2008

Hi Rahul! How about checking the invisible in MSN messenger?
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Rahul Bansal on May 3, 2008

@adi
Hey buddy sorry for late reply as I was offline on a long vacation…

Yeah, I agree with you as most yahoo profiles never updated. May be yahoo users are more interested in their profiles at social networking sites like facebook, orkut, etc…
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Rahul Bansal on May 3, 2008

@tester
First sorry for late reply as I was offline on a long vacation.

Now about your problem… You may use your yahoo account to login or create a fake one!
Rest you can use some online status checker as mentioned above…:-)

@Dunn
I have 2-3 options for MSN messenger in testing. Will post about them if anyone of them work!
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Drebowlegs on May 13, 2008

That audible one worked i just tried it and it worked
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Rahul Bansal on May 13, 2008

@Drebowlegs
What audible r u talking about???
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prasoon on May 28, 2008

niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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Rahul Bansal on June 3, 2008

@prasoon
Glad to now that you like it sooooooooooooooooo much
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desertRose on June 4, 2008

Hi Guys ,

Please help me , when i scan on a yahoo id in buddy spy , it doesn’t show anything for the online status (the column remains blank) . why is it happening so ?

Thanks
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Rahul Bansal on June 8, 2008

@desertRose
May be there was some problem when you tried it…
Why don’t you check again using another yahoo account?
Let me know if it works…
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sadique on June 11, 2008

please tel me wat shud i select in YMSG server,CAm server. YMSG port, WEB server..:( i want to use this software really very urgently on my buddies…
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Rahul Bansal on June 12, 2008

@sadique
Better try following online tools…
http://lolemxixon.com/yahoo
http://invisible-scanner.com/

If you still get some problem, let me know…
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miapx on June 27, 2008

uhmm hi everyone… just wanna share..
if you want to check if your friend is appearing incvisible.. http://www.persiangap.com
http://www.myspytool.com ( if you want to check the online activity of your friend for the last 24 hours)
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Rahul Bansal on June 27, 2008

@miapx
Thanks for info.. :-)Will check and let you know…
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Check Yahoo ID on July 7, 2008

Check a Yahoo ID if is offline or invisible using Detect Invisible .com. You can download someone else avatar too.
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fahd on July 8, 2008

thank you for creating this
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Rahul Bansal on July 8, 2008

@Check Yahoo Id
Thanks for sharing…

@fahd
I haven’t created this checkers.
I just posted them here.
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luckyhoe on July 16, 2008

is there anyway to see if that person is idle or not while there not on your list ??
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khan on July 19, 2008

is it possible to c when some one online last time in yahoo messenger?if u know plz write it down.thanxx
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Rahul Bansal on July 20, 2008

@luckyhoe
Not sure. Check above tools. You may find a useful one.
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Rahul Bansal on July 20, 2008

@khan
No I guess.
Such information must be there maintained by Yahoo but it may not be accessible to outside world.
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isha desai on July 21, 2008

TRY Yahoo Tracker best result with lil time hope to get ya best result with it
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Rahul Bansal on July 23, 2008

@isha
Thanks but I guess all these tools use Yahoo tracker behind the scene!
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andrews on July 24, 2008

well … if tried everything, cause i think a friend of mine is hidding from me, so i tried a few sites.

http://detectinvisible.com/

http://www.invisible.ir/

http://www.myspytool.com/members.php

but all sites gave all different messages … one said offline and the other said online … so it’s confussing. best thing is (i think) to ask the person, hope she tells the truth, altough the doodle thing was right. it stayed so i think she was realy off-line .. hmm
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Aydin on July 25, 2008

With http://www.4invisible.com/ You Can Find an Invisible User on Yahoo! Messenger.
%100 TRUE RESPONSE!
Test it and say your opinion.

http://www.4invisible.com/
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Rahul Bansal on July 27, 2008

@Andrews
Have you tried services listed in comments?
Personally you can go invisible and check which service is showing your yahoo ID online. You can count on them…

@Aydin
Thanks
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www.yahoostatus.ro on July 28, 2008

http://www.yahoostatus.ro , works 100 % perfect
yahoo programs , avatars , statuses

check who is invisible on yahoo !

http://www.yahoostatus.ro
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SunKist on July 29, 2008

is there a way to check

1. if the perticular user is using the webcam and to whom? in buddyspy it only shows whether the webcam is on/off.

2. to which ids the user is chatting to?

thankssss
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Rahul Bansal on July 31, 2008

@SunKist
I don’t think that is possible.
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venus on August 16, 2008

hi
is there any way to get notified if a person comes online in yahoo messenger without adding the person.
I know about the online status checkers but its not efficient as we have to keep on checking over and over again
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Rahul Bansal on August 19, 2008

@venus
Sorry. I dont know one…
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mar on October 8, 2008

Hi i was wondering if you could help me.
See my boyfriend has many id’s on yahoo
he knows i know but how can i find if he has made more id’s under some other name i need HELP PLEASE thanks
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Rahul Bansal on October 8, 2008

@mar -
Sorry mar… I guess such things will be hard to track…
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Deepak on October 8, 2008

@mar -
Use key loggers on your boy friend’s computer
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harman on October 17, 2008

hiii nybody can tell me how can i remain invisible as people r using sites to know dat i m online(invisible) or not????thanx
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irasp on November 2, 2008

Hi
You can detect invisible buddies on Yahoo! messenger from this website: http://invcheck.com

invcheck.com

and you can get invisible checker Code and put it in your website or weblog for free!!!!!!!

Test it
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ridz on November 4, 2008

@www.yahoostatus.ro -

thz iz awsoomm..
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Deepak Jain on November 4, 2008

@ridz -
Thank ‘Q’
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Misa on November 11, 2008

http://younup.com

100% correct! Tested!
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nimi on November 12, 2008

thanks
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gabi on November 13, 2008

Also a good website http://www.yahoostatus.org works perfect
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preet on November 16, 2008

Hi, could you please help me , how do i know how many people use my pc for messenger or check the mail on diffrent id.
Thanks
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Xpl0si0n on November 16, 2008

other website with you can detect status is http://www.yahooscan.eu also with website you cand download your buddies avatar.
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Xpl0si0n on November 20, 2008

other website with you can detect status is http://www.yahooscan.eu also with website you can download your buddies avatar.
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