.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