Cool! Been wanting this for awhile, I might just need to write the vCard export so I can get these into Address Book and onto my iPhone.

First time I ran the script got a Greasemonkey error, though disabling some add-ons and restarting FF fixed that. Not sure which one did it.

On merging, seems it's getting stuck on my 101st friend. Can send you the error from Python.

Here's some dead simple vCard download code. Would be nice if a contact knew it's first name from last since right now I'm just sticking the entire name in FN which AddressBook treats as their last name. Haven't bothered embedding a photo, but that shouldn't be too hard either.

Sorry it's not a real patch (don't have Git installed) and it's my first bit of Python so pick away.

class DownloadVcard(webapp.RequestHandler):
  """Download a vCard of the contacts for a given handle."""

  def get(self):
    key = self.request.get('key')
    if not key:
      raise "Missing argument 'key'"
    post_dump = models.PostDump.get(db.Key(key))
    if not post_dump:
      raise "State lost?  Um, do it again."

    contacts = simplejson.loads(post_dump.json)
    self.response.headers['Content-Type'] = "text/x-vcard"
    self.response.headers['Content-Disposition'] = "attachment; filename=\"addressbooker.vcf\""
    for contact in contacts:
      self.response.out.write("BEGIN:VCARD\n")
      self.response.out.write("VERSION:3.0\n")
      self.response.out.write("FN:" + contact["name"] + "\n")

      for number in contact["numbers"]:
        phone = "TEL;type="
        if number["type"] == "Mobile:":
            phone += "CELL"
        elif number["type"] == "Other:":
            phone += "HOME"

        phone += ":" + number["number"]
        self.response.out.write(phone + "\n")

      self.response.out.write("END:VCARD\n")

in main():

    ('/download/vcard', DownloadVcard),

Seeing as it's presented as a picture in facebook.

Isn't this against the Facebook terms of service? There was a very useful Mac Address Book sync tool but it was shutdown because exporting contact details from Facebook is, apparently, against their TOS :(

Didn't Plaxo get a few users in trouble when they launched their Facebook sync tool as well?

Isn't this against the Facebook terms of service?

I don't know.

There was a very useful Mac Address Book sync tool but it was shutdown because exporting contact details from Facebook is, apparently, against their TOS :(

Well, this isn't a Facebook App, so not sure what would be shut down.

Didn't Plaxo get a few users in trouble when they launched their Facebook sync tool as well?

That tool slammed the hell out of Facebok's servers, so people using it (Scoble) had their accounts suspended for rate limit abuses. The Greasemonkey script I wrote does just a couple HTTP requests (one per 50 friends w/ phone numbers), spaced ~1 second apart... very human-speed.

Oh, man, I wanted this just last week.

Hmm, does it do any sort of search-and-merge with the Google contacts, or does it always create new ones?

It did some search-and-merge for me.

This rocks. You rock.

So I assume it worked for you, no issues?

Keep up the good work on K-9 Mail, btw. I use it and love it.

Worked without a hitch.
As a side note, this is what caused me to finally break down and install GreaseMonkey. Congratulations, I guess.

I really hope that someday I can buy you a beer.

Would it be possible to add more data than just phone number (email, aim sn) and including all friends even those without listed phone numbers?

Thanks for the tool, worked great!

My theorem of great software ideas, "if you think of it, it must already exist," is borne out again. FWIW, the vCard export, at least for me, put the whole name into the last name, so when I merged the new stuff with my existing (OS X 10.5) address book, I got entries like "Robert Robert Smith." A small price to pay, though!

The merge worked fine for me, but was it supposed to import the facebook default pictures into gmail? I got all of my phone numbers/names/emails merged, but no photos? When addressbooker popped up asking if the merge was correct it showed each picture...

Yeah, haven't done that yet.

Having spent a lot of time in the FB world, this is probably against the Terms of Use. http://www.facebook.com/terms.php

Specifically, the following clauses:
"All content on the Site and available through the Service, including designs, text, graphics, pictures, video, information, applications, software, music, sound and other files, and their selection and arrangement (the "Site Content"), are the proprietary property of the Company, its users or its licensors with all rights reserved. No Site Content may be modified, copied, distributed, framed, reproduced, republished, downloaded, scraped, displayed, posted, transmitted, or sold in any form or by any means, in whole or in part, without the Company's prior written permission, except that the foregoing does not apply to your own User Content (as defined below) that you legally post on the Site."

And
"In addition, you agree not to use the Service or the Site to: ... use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or the Site"

On top of the legalese, the spirit of the Facebook Terms of Use is that people should have control over their privacy through FB, no matter where that information resides. Facebook would say, "What if someone changes their privacy preferences so that you're no longer allowed access to their phone number? Or what if they change numbers? Your data will at best be out of date and at worst violate their privacy."

Since Facebook offers no controlled mechanism for accessing phone numbers I think it's a safe bet that they don't want users exporting their friends phone numbers, no matter what.

YMMV, I guess, since Facebook is notoriously inconsistent in enforcing their terms of service.

Use at your own risk, then. However, the script does do 1 second pauses between flipping pages, and HTTP requests come from your own browser's user-agent and cookies, so it'd be a little hard to fingerprint.

http://www.facebook.com/mobile/?phonebook

thanks!

Facebook Scavenger was a Firefox extension that allowedyou to export your friends' contact info, including e-mail addresses: http://www.chrisfinke.com/addons/facebook-scavenger/

Facebook will most certainly send you takedown notice as well.

Thanks for the great hack! I was just looking for a nice way to update information in my contacts list for the G1, and this seems to do the trick (at least for phone numbers). Addresses would be great too. :)

It does look like you are out of your AppEngine URL fetching quota though:

raise self.exception
OverQuotaError: The API call urlfetch.Fetch() required more quota than is available.

The GreaseMonkey script worked perfectly for me over four pages, thanks very much!

Now to merge with phonebook, WAB, Thunderbird and Google Contacts and remove duplicates - best solution I've found so far is Zyb (http://zyb.com) but it's still not ideal...

Sorry but i speak not very good english but i've a problem with Facebook:
I went into User Script Commands when i was on this page http://www.facebook.com/mobile/?phonebook but after Facebook said :

(look at the image)
http://nsa03.casimages.com/img/2009/01/05/090105060020573077.png

It only works in English mode.

You've managed to do what I've spent months looking for. Thank you!

This app is great! I can finally get the phone numbers of my contacts into a vCard! It would be better if the first/last names were separated though...