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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 targeted yahoo user to be on your friend list! Now..

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 toURL http://profiles.yahoo.com/ so it will becomehttp://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-checkersuccessfully!

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.

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)