Simple vCard to CSV converter (only uses name, phone, email info)

vcf2csv.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Parse phone and email records out of vCard file and store them in a CSV.

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"""

import csv
import sys
import logging
import vobject

log = logging.getLogger(__name__)


def sanitize_phone(num, country_prefix):
    """
    Convert phone numbers into standard +<ccode><phonenum> format, without
    spaces, dashes or slashes. The default country prefix used is +385
    (Croatia).
    """

    orig = num
    num = num.replace(' ', '').replace('-', '').replace('/', '')
    if num.startswith('0'):
        if num.startswith('00'):
            num = '+' + num[2:]
        else:
            num = '+' + country_prefix + num[1:]
    elif not num.startswith('+') and len(num) > 5:
        num = '+' + num

    if num != orig:
        log.debug('[sanitize_phone] %s -> %s' % (orig, num))
    return num


def parse(fname, country_prefix):
    """
    Parse vCard file. Returns a generator producing dicts with 'name' (string),
    'emails' (list of strings) and 'phones' (list of strings) fields.
    """

    for vobj in vobject.readComponents(open(fname)):
        if not hasattr(vobj, 'fn'):
            log.warning('[parse] skipping entry with no name: ' + repr(vobj))
            continue

        entry = {
            'name': vobj.fn.value.strip(),
            'emails': [],
            'phones': []
        }

        if hasattr(vobj, 'email_list'):
            entry['emails'] = [e.value.strip() for e in vobj.email_list]

        if hasattr(vobj, 'tel_list'):
            entry['phones'] = [sanitize_phone(t.value, country_prefix)
                for t in vobj.tel_list]

        log.debug('[parse] got entry for ' + entry['name'])
        yield entry


def csv_output(fname, entries):
    """
    Write the entries generated by parse() to a UTF-8 encoded CSV file with
    three columns: Name, Phones and Emails.
    """

    with open(fname, 'wb') as fd:
        writer = csv.writer(fd)
        writer.writerow(['Name', 'Phones', 'Emails'])
        for e in entries:
            writer.writerow([
                e['name'].encode('utf-8'),
                ','.join(e['phones']),
                ','.join(e['emails'])
            ])


def vcf2csv(infile, outfile, country_prefix):
    """
    Parse entries out of vCard 'infile' and store them to CSV 'outfile'.
    """

    csv_output(outfile, parse(infile, country_prefix))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    if len(sys.argv) != 3 and len(sys.argv) != 4:
        print "Usage: %s <infile.vcf> <outfile.csv> [<prefix>]" % sys.argv[0]
        print "Default country prefix: 385 (Croatia)"
        sys.exit(-1)
    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
    vcf2csv(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2],
        sys.argv[3] if len(sys.argv) == 4 else '385')

Hi,
I found your code looking for a way to import a vcf to a grandstream ip-phone, but unfortunately I get an error running your code:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "vcf2csv.py", line 117, in
sys.argv[3] if len(sys.argv) == 4 else '49')
File "vcf2csv.py", line 107, in vcf2csv
csv_output(outfile, parse(infile, country_prefix))
File "vcf2csv.py", line 96, in csv_output
e['name'].encode('utf-8'),
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)

I found out that this has something to do with the handling of unicode resp. UTF8 encoding, But I dont know any python :-)

so, can you help me with this?

thanks a lot,
greetings blitzdesigner