Re: Obtain data from an Address Book card

The script below creates a CSV file with all records in de AddressBook using the AddresBook framework. (This is the exportBooks.py script from the examples directory in the pyobjc-framework-AddressBook archive).

The Python API to AddressBook is the same as the Objective-C one, in general Objective-C based examples should help to get you going with accessing the same APIs using PyObjC.

Ronald


# ===

#!/usr/bin/env python2.3
"""
This script gives a short example on how to use the addressbook framework,
it creates an CSV file containing information about all entries in the
addressbook.

Usage:
    python exportBook.py output.csv
"""
import csv
import sys

import AddressBook

# The names of fields in the export, and the corresponding property.
FIELD_NAMES=(
    ('Last Name',  AddressBook.kABLastNameProperty),
    ('First Name', AddressBook.kABFirstNameProperty),
    ('E-mail',     AddressBook.kABEmailProperty),
)

def encodeField(value):
    """
    Encode a value into an UTF-8 string
    """
    if value is None:
        return ''

    if isinstance(value, AddressBook.ABMultiValue):
        # A multi-valued property, merge them into a single string
        result = []
        for i in range(len(value)):
            result.append(value.valueAtIndex_(i).encode('utf-8'))
        return ', '.join(result)

    return value.encode('utf-8')

def personToFields(person, fieldnames):
    """ Extract the specified fields from a person object """
    return [ encodeField(person.valueForProperty_(nm)) for nm in fieldnames ]     

def bookFields(book, fieldnames):
    """ Generate the records for all people in the book """
    for person in book.people():
        yield personToFields(person, fieldnames)

def main(argv = None):
    """ main entry point """

    if argv is None:
        argv = sys.argv[1:]

    if len(argv) != 1:
        print "Usage: python exportBook.py output.csv"
        sys.exit(1)

    book = AddressBook.ABAddressBook.sharedAddressBook()

    fp = open(argv[0], 'wb')
    csvStream = csv.writer(fp)
    csvStream.writerow([ f[0] for f in FIELD_NAMES])
    for row in bookFields(book, [ f[1] for f in FIELD_NAMES]):
        csvStream.writerow(row)
    fp.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

#====

On 14 Oct, 2010,at 11:28 PM, Ned Deily <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <C8DCC28D.2B7B7%[email protected]>,
Jeremy Reichman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does anyone have any examples of how to obtain data from cards via the
> Address Book API with PyObjC? I'm not finding much (at least at my skill
> level) via searching.
> 
> My goal is to output a few of the fields from "my card." I'm interested in
> this from the scripting perspective, not doing so in a full-fledged app. I'd
> like to do it with Python, partly as a learning exercise. The little bit
> I've done with PyObjC has been trying to update a script I wrote that used
> the old Core Graphics bindings.
> 
> If I were doing this via a shell script, I could get information with an
> osascript line like this:
> 
> $ osascript -e 'tell application "Address Book" to get the {first name, last
> name, organization} of my card'
> Leonardo, Flathead, GUE Tech

You might consider using py-appscript instead:

>>> from appscript import *
>>> my_card = app("Address Book").my_card.properties()
>>> [my_card.get(f) for f in (k.first_name, k.last_name, k.organization)]
[u'Ned', u'Deily', k.missing_value]

http://appscript.sourceforge.net/

-- 
Ned Deily,
[email protected]


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