On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 08:07, Dan Hensley wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 02:06, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > Yes - but I've got a relatively large address book.
> > I can't seem to find a way to export my address book to a text file.
> > I poked around and tried evolution-addressbook-export but I don't get
> > any output :(
> > Basically - I don't want to have to manually go through my huge address
> > book and manually create a white list, and furthermore, I don't want to
> > have to update two files for every contact.
> >
> > Is there any way to export the address book to a text file? Then at
> > least I could script it and throw it into a crontab or something ...
>
> This was discussed a couple of months ago on the list, and I think it's
> been discussed several times. I don't remember what came of it. Seems
> like someone was going to try to write a script to access Evo's contact
> list directly. Not sure if that ever got done. You might try searching
> the archives to find out more.
Here's a Python script I hacked up a a few minutes ago.
exportcontacts.py > whitelist
will give you a list of all the email addresses in your Evo contacts
database.
If you needed something different, let me know.
Of course, you'll need to have Python installed, but I think that's a
pretty common part of most distros these days.
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Cliff Wells, Software Engineer
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#!/usr/bin/python
import bsddb, os, re
home = os.getenv('HOME')
dbname = '%s/evolution/local/Contacts/addressbook.db' % home
db = bsddb.hashopen(dbname, 'r')
regex = re.compile('EMAIL;INTERNET:(?P<contact>.*)')
for k in db.keys():
for line in db[k].split('\n'):
mo = regex.search(line)
if mo:
contact = mo.group('contact').strip()
if contact:
print contact
break
db.close()
