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Simple way to import vcf card into an addressbook #346
Description
Maybe I'm missing something obvious but I didn't find a way to import a vcf file (as is e.g. ever so often attached to an email) into an addressbook. E.g. khal has khal import <icsfile> to import calendar entries. Would be nice to have something similar for khard.
I tried
khard new -i foo.vcf
but that raises an exception:
$ khard new -i friscobrisco.vcf
Wrapping unversioned vCard object, setting version to 3.0.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/khard", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
~~~~^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/khard/khard.py", line 1182, in main
new_subcommand(args.addressbook, input_from_stdin_or_file,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
args.open_editor)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/khard/khard.py", line 390, in new_subcommand
new_contact = CarddavObject.from_yaml(
abook, data, config.private_objects,
config.preferred_vcard_version, config.localize_dates)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/khard/carddav_object.py", line 1389, in from_yaml
contact.update(yaml)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/khard/carddav_object.py", line 1060, in update
contact_data = self._parse_yaml(input)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/khard/carddav_object.py", line 996, in _parse_yaml
if not (contact_data.get("First name") or contact_data.get("Last name")
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'get'
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lucc commentedon Sep 17, 2025
Yes an import of vcf files is not yet implemented. The
-i/--input-filecurrently only accepts yaml template files.(I am currently copying vcf files to my address book folder by hand, but that obviously does not check them for correctness in any way.)
Pull Requests for this will be welcome.
I had some external discussion with @scheibler about this some time ago, so here are some notes, if somebody wants to implement this:
--formatto thenewsubcommandyamlandvcard(like forshow)newsubcommand is fully backwards compatible