Comments on: Convert VCF to CSV

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:12:47 +0000

I can’t believe people are happily putting all of their private data into a webpage with no thought of the risks involved.

Anyone know of an easy to use application that can be downloaded?

By: odiyya

odiyya — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:58:17 +0000

you can also use this site by simply uploading your vcf file and choosing your desired output. two step process and works great.

http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/

By: Callum

Callum — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:48:17 +0000

Thanks for the feedback steg.

By: steg

steg — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 05:02:02 +0000

If you have to go back the other way vcf ( vcard ) to csv for like gmail or something use this site which has both.

http://www.vcf2csv.com/

Also the javascript converter at the bottom is the only one I’ve found to accept multiple record vcf files which is what OS X’s Address Book creates. Outlook can’t handle this format even though it conforms to vcard standards, so you’d have to import an address book db as a collated csv actually.

By: j harake

j harake — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:29:42 +0000

I am very grateful

By: Luiz Bonetti

Luiz Bonetti — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:05:21 +0000

Thanks!

By: Callum

Callum — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:31:51 +0000

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

By: James Jones

James Jones — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:11:17 +0000

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.

By: Callum

Callum — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:21:31 +0000

@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.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:42:23 +0000

where can i get shell and php

By: Ralf Engels

Ralf Engels — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:38:15 +0000

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.

By: cubny

cubny — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:37:46 +0000

thank you very much

By: Kim Connors

Kim Connors — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:18:33 +0000

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

Script works very well.

Thanks Much!

Kim

By: spidersddd

spidersddd — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 20:26:36 +0000

Thanks for the link. It worked great for me.

SPIDERSDDD

By: Mexy

Mexy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:53:32 +0000

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

Cheers

By: fime

fime — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:47:45 +0000

thanks for the link. very useful.

By: Macsico

Macsico — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 16:03:14 +0000

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.

By: Callum

Callum — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:59:37 +0000

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

By: joost

joost — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 14:00:03 +0000

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.