Convert VCF to CSV

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Callum
1 year, 8 months ago
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I spent ages looking for a way to convert a VCF file (output from Evolution) to a simple CSV (to mail merge). I found a fantastic solution which you can either use online, or for the security conscious (or paranoid) you can also download an run on your own server. VCF-Convert from brotherli.ch (new window).

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  1. 1 joost
    1 year, 7 months ago.

    I am delighted with your program, but…
    Online it works fine.
    On my computer I get the error:
    ‘.$GLOBALS['error_msg'].”\n”; ?>
    Instead the converted testfile it gives a index.php file.
    I use Apple G4, OsX10.4.8, Firefox 1.5.0.9
    Probably it must run on a server.

  2. 2 Callum
    1 year, 7 months ago.

    Hi Joost, the program is not mine, I simply linked to it. I uploaded my file and it worked fine. Good luck - Callum.

  3. 3 Macsico
    1 year, 6 months ago.

    The page states below th online convert form:

    “You can also download the script and run it locally. All you need is a shell with PHP installed.”

    Shell means Terminal and PHP means PHP environment.

    Maybe an additional local MAMP installation could help here if the information is too confident.

  4. 4 fime
    1 year, 6 months ago.

    thanks for the link. very useful.

  5. 5 Mexy
    1 year, 2 months ago.

    WOWWWWWWWWWWW ….. great!
    Thanx!! Also spent ages looking for a way … was even trying to so it manually (hit head against wall!!!!)

    Cheers

  6. 6 spidersddd
    1 year, 2 months ago.

    Thanks for the link. It worked great for me.

    SPIDERSDDD

  7. 7 Kim Connors
    1 year ago.

    You saved my bacon! and a lot of tedious work.

    Script works very well.

    Thanks Much!

    Kim

  8. 8 cubny
    11 months, 3 weeks ago.

    thank you very much

  9. 9 Ralf Engels
    9 months, 3 weeks ago.

    Nice but not perfect. E.g. it will swallow postbox and extended address. It will also not extract uncommon tags like TITLE or GEO.

    My own page (http://www.tomota.de) should do a better job in converting. If you are just interested in learning more about parsing vcards I propose to have a look at the evolution-server source code.

  10. 10 Nick
    7 months, 3 weeks ago.

    where can i get shell and php

  11. 11 Callum
    7 months, 3 weeks ago.

    @Nick: If you don’t know where to get a shell with PHP, I’d suggest you upload your file and let their site do the conversion for you.

  12. 12 James Jones
    6 months, 3 weeks ago.

    Thank you for the help converting my iPod contacts file to my Outlook Express address book. I searched for quite some time to make it happen, to no avail. That is until I tried your converter. I had to figure out what format to convert it to, but that took a whole 3 minutes. Then, poof…it worked great. Thanks again.

  13. 13 Callum
    6 months, 2 weeks ago.

    Glad it worked for you. Just to be clear, the script is not mine, it’s a provided by brotherli.ch.

  14. 14 Luiz Bonetti
    5 months, 1 week ago.

    Thanks!

  15. 15 j harake
    5 months ago.

    I am very grateful

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