Re: Converting org-mode/org-contacts to VCard (importing to Android)

[Feng Shu <tumashu@gmail.com>]

Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at> writes:

> * Rüdiger Sonderfeld <ruediger@c-plusplus.de> wrote:
>> On Friday 22 November 2013 17:37:01 Karl Voit wrote:
>>> The reason I wrote it in Python is that I don't know ELISP well
>>> enough. The reason I wrote the script instead of using existing
>>> export methods: I only want to export a small sub-set (names, phone
>>> numbers, email addresses, contact image) due to privacy reasons.
>>
>> That should be possible with the existing VCard export.  See `org-contacts-
>> ignore-property' to ignore specific properties.  And `org-contacts-export-as-
>> vcard' takes a NAME parameter to limit the names.
>
> Fair enough :-)
>
> However, I did additional things like checks, filtering, and so
> forth that were important to my data-set. E.g., my contact template
> does contain "0043/" as a pre-filled content for phone numbers. I
> wanted to ignore those fields that got only this template and not a
> complete phone number. I also wanted to get warnings in case some
> data does not fulfill certain other requirements.

use (replace-regexp-in-string "^[0-9]\\{4,4\\}/" "" "0043/333/333")

#+begin_src
(defun org-contacts-vcard-format (contact)
  "Formats CONTACT in VCard 3.0 format."
  (let* ((properties (caddr contact))
	 (name (org-contacts-vcard-escape (car contact)))
	 (n (org-contacts-vcard-encode-name name))
	 (email (cdr (assoc-string org-contacts-email-property properties)))
	 (tel (cdr (assoc-string org-contacts-tel-property properties)))
	 (ignore-list (cdr (assoc-string org-contacts-ignore-property properties)))
	 (ignore-list (when ignore-list
			(org-contacts-split-property ignore-list)))
	 (note (cdr (assoc-string org-contacts-note-property properties)))
	 (bday (org-contacts-vcard-escape (cdr (assoc-string org-contacts-birthday-property properties))))
	 (addr (cdr (assoc-string org-contacts-address-property properties)))
	 (nick (org-contacts-vcard-escape (cdr (assoc-string org-contacts-nickname-property properties))))
	 (head (format "BEGIN:VCARD\nVERSION:3.0\nN:%s\nFN:%s\n" n name))
	 emails-list result phones-list)
    (concat head
	    (when email (progn
			  (setq emails-list (org-contacts-remove-ignored-property-values ignore-list (org-contacts-split-property email)))
			  (setq result "")
			  (while emails-list
			    (setq result (concat result  "EMAIL:" (org-contacts-strip-link (car emails-list)) "\n"))
			    (setq emails-list (cdr emails-list)))
			  result))
	    (when addr
	      (format "ADR:;;%s\n" (replace-regexp-in-string "\\, ?" ";" addr)))
	    (when tel (progn
			(setq phones-list (org-contacts-remove-ignored-property-values ignore-list (org-contacts-split-property tel)))
			(setq result "")
			(while phones-list
			  (setq result (concat result  "TEL:"  (replace-regexp-in-string "^[0-9]\\{4,4\\}/" ""  (org-link-unescape (org-contacts-strip-link (car phones-list)))) "\n"))
			  (setq phones-list (cdr phones-list)))
			result))
	    (when bday
	      (let ((cal-bday (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute (org-time-string-to-absolute bday))))
		(format "BDAY:%04d-%02d-%02d\n"
			(calendar-extract-year cal-bday)
			(calendar-extract-month cal-bday)
			(calendar-extract-day cal-bday))))
	    (when nick (format "NICKNAME:%s\n" nick))
	    (when note (format "NOTE:%s\n" note))
	    "END:VCARD\n\n")))

#+end_src

>
> I have to admit that I don't know the feature-set of the Org-mode
> export. I would be very surprised, if the Org-mode export method is
> able to follow my custom "photo:" link I am using, grab the image
> file, test if it has a image format that works with VCard
> 2.1 on Android, and encodes it in base64 accordingly.
>
> You see: I want to have ways to tweak the export process. And as
> long as I don't know ELISP that well, I stick to the tools I know.
>
>
> A side remark of mine: a couple of months ago I tried to find out
> how to store address information, phone numbers, and so on in
> org-contact properties. AFAIR I could not find anything except the
> :EMAIL: property. Is there a standard out there that answers
> questions like "separate street from house number?", "how to cope
> with multiple addresses for one contact?", and so forth? I created
> something on my own as you can see on [1].
>
>
> I am happy if you can get benefit from my little project and I am
> also happy when Org-mode offers a great export functionality for the
> rest of us :-)
>
>   1. https://raw.github.com/novoid/org-contacts2vcard/master/testdata/testcontacts.org-- 
> mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML to Org-mode:
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>
> https://github.com/novoid/extract_pdf_annotations_to_orgmode + more on github

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