.contact parser

This is a parser for Microsofts .contact format to bring contacts to a proper standardized format. I think many programs do the same job already but I didn't find a comfortable solution.

Output Formats

csv
json

Usage

brief:

./contactparser.py -o contacts.csv foo.contact bar.contact

detailed:

usage: contactparser.py [-h] [-v] [-o file] [--json] [--pretty] [--csv]
                        [--csv-dialect {excel,excel-tab,unix}]
                        file [file ...]

a command line tool to convert microsofts .contact files into a csv or json

positional arguments:
  file                  .contact files, - for stdin

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         prints debug messages to stderr, -vv for more)
  -o file, --output file
                        the output file, - for stdout

output: json:
  --json                output format is json
  --pretty              Make json pretty and not compact

output: csv:
  --csv                 output format is csv
  --csv-dialect {excel,excel-tab,unix}
                        the csv dialect

Install

./setup.py install

Contribute

Currently only Python3 is supported. If you need python2, please contribute. I think there is not much to change.
Currently there are not many fields supported. Please contribute to make this tool even mightier.
Currently only csv and json export is supported. One could also implement vcard export.

License

GPLv3

sedrubal/contactparser