chrisbarrett / osx-bbdb

Import OS X Contacts into Emacs' BBDB.

OS X bbdb importer

Description

Provides a command, import-osx-contacts-to-bbdb, that will copy contacts from your OS X Address Book into BBDB. It also uses a timer to periodically add new contacts.

Requires Emacs 24+, tested on OS X 10.8.

Installation

brew install contacts

then paste the code below into an elisp buffer, then M-x eval-buffer.

(require 'package)
;; Ensure melpa repository is added.
(add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.milkbox.net/packages/"))
(package-initialize)
;; Install directly from github.
(with-current-buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously
                      "https://raw.github.com/chrisbarrett/osx-bbdb/master/osx-bbdb.el")
  (call-interactively 'package-install-from-buffer))

This utility requires a few additional packages, which will be automatically downloaded by Emacs’ package manager.

Once you’ve installed the package, add the following to your init.el:

(when (equal system-type 'darwin)
  (require 'osx-bbdb))

Contributing

• TODO Merge fields for existing contacts, instead of skipping.