Re: [Evolution] export local addressbook to HTML by cron

[Brad Warkentin <brad warkentin rogers com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 02:39, Ludek Safar wrote:
> V Ät, 27. 05. 2004 v 08:27, Eric Lambart pÃÅe:
> > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 07:58 +0200, Stan Pinte wrote:
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > some of my users would like to have a web page, accessible from home,
> > > wich would contain all their contacts...
> > >
> > > is it possible to export the contacts in the local addressbook (using a
> > > script), in a readable format? 
> >
> > Yes.  Go to your contects, select all (or whichever ones you like), and
> > do File->Save as VCard.  They'll all be saved in the standard VCard
> > format (I forget the RFC but you can find it on the web) in the file of
> > your choice.
>
>
> Well, it doesn't sound really fully automatic ;-). You should be able to
> call evolution-addressbook-export from cron, then convert to whatever
> you want and make accessible through webserver in the script.

The addressbook is Berkley database formatted file. Accessable via
defined libraries in Python (shudder) or Perl (Ah) [no biases here...
:-) ]

I am using a Perl script to do whitelisting. Could use something similar
and cron to automagically generate the web page. I have an example
python script somewhere as well.

cheers,
brad