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Check Who is Invisible/Online on Yahoo Messenger!

One of my Orkut friend Niharika Arora asked me on Orkut how to check if a person is online on yahoo messenger? I googled for sometime and here are my tested results…

First let me tell you coolest thing about hacks in this tutorial. They do not require a targeted yahoo user to be on your friend list! Now..

To Check Online Status:

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

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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.

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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.

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)

Related: How to go Invisible on Gmail Chat!

216 replies on “Check Who is Invisible/Online on Yahoo Messenger!”

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…

Is there a way for someone to check through their own computer who do I chat with on my yahoo messenger and how often I log in to chat? If so, how do you go about it? thanks very much for your help. A request, pls do not display my email address on yr page…thanks very much!

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

hi dear ankit bhai i got u r poient abut to how we able to do open more then 1 messenger at a time in a PC.i lernt and done it by u r priciouse help.thanks for it and i should know more abut a persion who is online but tahier yMsngr id ststus is shown is offline .so plz help to resolve this great mater wich regarding u
plz teach me how can i knw thair real status.plz thankyoue.

hi..anki..how can i detect tht any person is invisible mode.give me solid solution.thr r so many likns i have tested but i think all of them gives me different different solutions so it becomes difficult to trust them..so pls provide me a confirmed link or a confirmed tricks..pls

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 !

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 !

@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! 🙂

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 😉

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…

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…

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

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

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

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

I got buddy spy at my office and at home but the program at my office doesn’t show if the person is using the webcam or not, but my home computer does. Is that because of the firewalls? Is there a different configuration that I need to set up? Thank you.

dudes the checking incisible stuff is available in the internet…..!!!!!!!but i need a way for escaping from the checks against me wether im invisibleee…can anyone help meeee…huh????

hey does anyone know if someone is “idle” if their status when looked up will list them as invisible?? cuz my friends status on IM has said idle for the last two hours but when i checked on neostatus.com to see if he was invisible or not it said he was. how can this be if he’s clearly “idle”??? plz help this is so important thanks!

@mustangsally
These tools used to check invisible status don’t work accurately all the time. So try few of them and see on what status most of the agree! 😉

About 2nd question…
Yes it is possible. On yahoo one can control visibility settings on per user and/or per group basis.
So it may happen you and neostatus see different status.

2nd question: i can see my friend online but when i check on neostatus it shows him “invisible” he only has me on his friend list and nobody else (i know his password) so why would it be doing this? is he purposely putting invisible on for everybody else that might just know his user id so nobody will bother him but me? of course i have tried to message him and he won’t answer, he hasn’t gone “idle” yet either hmmmmmmmmmm what’s the deal i wonder???? or is he in a chat room as invisible so i won’t find him there? can u still IM in a chat room if your invisible? he now has it on his yahoo mail that when he signs on his email he automatically logs into IM does this cause any quirks that you know of? sorry for all the questions but there are some unspoken issues right now that i need to get to the bottom of. thank you in advance

Thank you for information. Other way that we can see invisible yahoo messenger by using email address, try to use send / compose, you will see an icon showing online or offline friends.

Hi rahul,
simply great work buddy. I need to ask u 3 things.

1. I have a friend added up in my messenger. it shows him as offline, but when i checked his status from http://www.imvisible.info , it showed him to be ONLINE(not invisible), then howcome iam seeing him as offline in my friends list??

2. is there a status checking website where i can put all my friend’s id’s at once and check as to who all are online/offline/invisible. coz in other sites i have to put their id’s one-by-one…..and thts kinda time taking.

2.i have a yahoo id,it got hacked by someone and i just cannot log into tht account nemore.i tried the forgot password option but i have forgotten the secret question’s answer….
is there any way to get my password??

i will b grateful to you.

thanks
Prateek

My experience with http://www.ydetective.com is that it is completely unreliable.

I have seen myself as being registered as online at times when I was fast asleep.
The first time I noticed that my ID was registered as being online when I was not I thought that perhaps my account had been hacked, so I immediately changed my password, only to find myself being registered online again at a time when I was not a day later.
So, I changed my password again, from a different computer. Yet the result was the same, I was still registered as being online when I knew for sure that I had not been online.

So, you would be wise NOT to base any conclusions about someone being online or not from ydetective.com,; it’s not a reliable site.

Yes.. all services are down… not detecting invisble users.. but detecting online users…

I tried testing with my own yahoo id… it shows offline when I was invisible…

Does anybody know the reason?

Okay, so how you do check yahoo mail and use messenger without people knowing? It seems there are far more resources dedicated to outing people who want to be left alone rather than allowing people to have a little privacy.

Um, those people who “want to be left alone” or “have a little privacy” are the ones invading the privacy of their so called buddies by watching them while hiding and they should be outed for the faceless hypocrites they are.

If they don’t want to be seen then they should automatically forfeit the right to see and be invisiblised by a default setting.

hi rahul.. gr8 work..
but i am having some problem logging into buddy spy. its saying that the protocol no longer supported. what cn i do to login to my yahoo messenger.. pls forward the deatils to my id if possible..
thankyou in advacne..
bye:-h

how can i search my frends id in yahoo chat, suppose we want to know that in which chat room my fren is chatting.
i think you all can understand what i want to say

Hello rahul

My name is shailesh. Actually i want to know that how to get information about one friend is online on yahoo msger ( invisible status)so how can i get that he is online on mobile device. most of the what happen. some one msging than after i get msg he/she online. but i want to know other person is online(invisible status) i get alert from him without he msging me. just mail me. this is very important to me

at last. how can i get know he/she is online without alert. actually the person is online(invisible status)

Thanking YOu

hi friends
i hv tried all the sites , but its not showing current status of id when i m log in and make it invisible to evryone and i check the id as above sites its showing me OFFline when actually im login to ym
if any other trics let me know

guys please check again there is problem in all sites , when u check first time its shows offline and click second time its show invisible how u know which one is right

Hi, is there anyway or any version of yahoo messenger or program you can download to check if you are in a person’s contact list or not. I added this guy’s email (msn messenger id) onto my yahoo messenger list and would love to know if i’m in his list or not.
Thanks. Can you also tell me how to tell when he was last online on yahoo messenger?

thanks.

hi,once i was chating in mail and someone sent a pm to me,the words that was written in the chat window for his id was just:d mmmmm
i don’t know who is he but he completely knows eveything about me
is there a way to know who he is or what is his ID?

None of these online invisibility checkers seem to work with Yahoo 10 anymore.

I have 2 ways that willwork but has the side-effect that they might know you are checking them.

#1# If the buddy you want to check is on your list, then (1) open an IM message to the person, (2) load the IM Environment under Yahoo Tools->Doodle. It will say “Waiting for your buddy to load Doodle.” (3) send a simple message, like “Hello” or “miss you, send me a message when you are online next time” (4) if they are really offline, it will continue to say “waiting for your buddy to load Doodle” forever. If they are invisible, it will clear that message when you send your message. The buddy will not need to reply to you, but he/she will see Doodle loaded in their IM window. If they are not too bright they might not know what you just did.

#2# send a file to your buddy. If they are invisible and either decline the file or close the IM window without accepting or declining, or they logoff Yahoo, you will see they declined your file transfer. If they ignore you, you won’t know, until they logoff, which might be a long time if they never log off and stay invisible a long time. You will eventually know if your out-wait them 🙂

can any one please let me know how to Scan the complete buddy list at one click to know who are online and offline or invisible?

Its very difficult to check each and every id one by one as i have more then 490 people in my list.

dear Rahul:i ever download the latest version of ym but all of the invisible detector site give me the wrong answer.what is the problem?is the problem with my pc?what should i do?i need a site for invisible-detector.introduce me a site please.tanx

hi, same with me here , the website all of them give me the wrong status of a person,
well i try from a different pc an ip address it works like a charm
so i guess u have to change the pc and ip address,
to confirm that try checking the status from a diff internet connection , and not from ur pc an let me know if it worked for u

cheeeeeers ^_^

sure , see the only way i know how to change the ip is to contact ur provider, also what i mean is like this ,
go to ur friend house and try from his computer and his connection
thats what i mean by different computer and different ip address
cuz to me it does the same , but when i use a different pc and connection it works like a charm ^_^

so try it like that. if u still dont understand let me know.

cheeeeeeers.

No it is not working.
I went to invisible mode in yahoo messenger and entered my id here, but it shows as offline istead of invisible.

It is not detecting yahoo messenger invisible, but it is detecting yahoo mail and invisible(Yahoo mail has inside chating option there if you are in invisible mode then it is telling here invisible but when I am in yahoo messenger invisible it is not finding). Please help

there was a problem while i was chatting in yahoo room someone stopped my yahoo messenger and it was not responding. And that was stopped by other chatter deliberately using virus or any other setting. can anyone help me to this problem. I also want to know that how did he do that.

they used a boot program on you they are all over the place do a search and you can find them, but if you get caught you will lose that ID’s and maybe access based on your IP.

There are many sites for yahoo…but NO ONE PERFECT for msn..i read all the comments here & tries all suggestions for msn..but are shows ofline which is conformly online…Does anybody know the exact & accurate site for msn invisible checker..thnks

is there a messenger scanner that tells you if someone is mobile? Vizgin did tell you and peoples status example * in kitchen bb soon * but that service has not worked for months and i loved it

well i know why u would say it dosent work, see it something like this

it works for a while and sometimes not at all , i never understood why though
but it does work just try couple of times , and watch out sometimes it gives fake status
dont know why but it works in a way lol \m/ xD.

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