Contacts: Social Network parsing for imports

[WNYmathGuy]

When I imported from Gmail, I had a lot of URL's in peoples records that were links to their social networking profiles. Because you can detect the string of twitter.com/___, you could probably re-write many of my imported links from full URL's to social media usernames. Maybe you could even have the parsed data for username pushed into a link testing function to see if your parsing guessed right. Same goes for the Instant Messaging contact object. I had URL's for people's Skype address.

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[skjnldsv]

@WNYmathGuy what format outputted on the vcard are displayed the urls? :)

[WNYmathGuy]

@skjnldsv It was the standard Google Contacts from back then that I built the list with. I exported from Google into whatever seemed appropriate for NextCloud at the time. Probably the Outlook CSV format option.

[skjnldsv]

Nono, I meant the url in the vcards :)
We only support vcf files, so in the end that's the only thing you could have imported.

I had a lot of URL's in peoples records

When you say that, could you give a little hint on how to add a social url to a contact?
Was it done automatically or using the google contacts manager?

[WNYmathGuy]

@skjnldsv I found the old exports from Google. Here's one example:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:VOC of WNY
N:WNY;VOC;of;;
TEL;TYPE=WORK:[phone]
ADR;TYPE=WORK:;;1280 Main St.\, 2nd Floor;Buffalo;NY;14209;
ORG:Veterans One-stop Center
TITLE:Receptionist
item1.URL:http\://vocwny.org/
item1.X-ABLabel:_$!<HomePage>!$_
item2.URL:https\://twitter.com/VocofWNY
item2.X-ABLabel:Twitter
item3.URL:https\://www.linkedin.com/company/veterans-one-stop-center-of-wny
 -inc-
item3.X-ABLabel:LinkedIN
item4.URL:https\://www.facebook.com/VOCofWNY
item4.X-ABLabel:Farcebook
NOTE:Regular business hours are Monday-Friday\, from 8\:30 AM to 4\:30 PM.
END:VCARD

In the URL list, I manually labled the Twitter link in Google Contacts, but a SED type regex could identify that https\://twitter.com/ and make @VOCofWNY into a social media type in NextCloud.

Here's another example:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:July Mae Zapodafi
N:Zapodafi;July;Mae;;
NICKNAME:Juju
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=WORK:[email protected]
X-YAHOO:zapodafi432
TEL;TYPE=CELL:[phone]
ADR;TYPE=WORK:;;87 Hannibal Ct ;Hollowbrook;NJ;04532;
item1.URL:https\://www.linkedin.com/in/july-zapodafi-543b7264
item1.X-ABLabel:PROFILE
END:VCARD

In Google their native type X-YAHOO: tagged the Yahoo Messenger handle.

Is that what you were hoping to see?

_P.S. the second VCF is fictional._

[skjnldsv]

Thanks a lot! There is probably something we can do here indeed :)

[WNYmathGuy]

@skjnldsv Here's some more info for you. I built a sample contact and did screen shots. Turns out the custom fields don't seem to export correctly while the native ones do. This is what it built: _contacts.vcf_

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:John Doe
N:Doe;John;;;
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET;TYPE=WORK:[email protected]
X-GTALK:itsmejodo
item1.URL:http\://somewhere.com/
item1.X-ABLabel:I wrote this
END:VCARD

[j-ed]

I just created a test account on an iPhone 8 and added all available social media networks to that record.
After importing the data to a Nextcloud address book, all entries have shown URLs too, as described in this issue ticket.
BTW, the custom defined entry is not displayed correctly. I would assume that x-user= contains the label of the custom record and x-apple would identify the name or address of the social media record

Here you can see how the original vcf file looked like:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
PRODID:-//Apple Inc.//iPhone OS 12.1//EN
N:Ichats;Tom;;;
FN: Tom Ichats
X-SOCIALPROFILE;type=twitter:http://twitter.com/chat-twitter
X-SOCIALPROFILE;type=facebook:http://www.facebook.com/chat-fb
X-SOCIALPROFILE;type=flickr:http://www.flickr.com/photos/chat-flickr
X-SOCIALPROFILE;type=linkedin:http://www.linkedin.com/in/chat-linkedin
X-SOCIALPROFILE;type=myspace:http://www.myspace.com/chat-myspace
X-SOCIALPROFILE;type=sinaweibo:http://weibo.com/n/chat-sina-weibo
X-SOCIALPROFILE;type=Custom Chat;x-user=chat-custom:x-apple:chat-custom
END:VCARD

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[skjnldsv]

@WNYmathGuy any reason for closing? :)

[WNYmathGuy]

@WNYmathGuy any reason for closing? :)

Well @skjnldsv the bot made me do it. =)) Did I get powned by a bot?

[skjnldsv]

ahah, no, let me remove the needs info label! :)