bguo 0.2.1

File-based contact management

File-based contact management

Concept

Each contact corresponds to a single file inside of the bguo directory. Contact information should be edited in this directory and then exported to various output formats for use by other programs. They can also be roughly imported to this directory, but you will have to proofread the results; the importers are intended for one-time imports, not for regular synchronization with other programs.

For our purposes, a contact is a thing with a single name, a single email address, &c. People, mailing lists, and organizations can all be contacts. bguo has no special features for grouping contacts.

Usage

Install

pip3 install bguo

Help

bguo -h

Examples

wget http://src.thomaslevine.com/bguo/tarball/bguo.tar.gz
tar xzf bguo.tar.gz
cd bguo/examples
make

Supported formats

bguo supports only the formats that I (Tom) have used.

• MH ~/.aliases file

• Mutt alias_file

• Newsbeuter ~/.newsbeuter/urls

• Plain postal addresses

• VoIP.ms phonebook export

• Seltzer CRM member listing (/?q=members)

For most of these formats, only the import or the export is supported, not both. This is summarized in the table below.

Format	Import	Export
MH	Yes	Yes
Mutt	Yes	Yes
Seltzer	Yes	No
VoIP.ms	Yes	No
Newsbeuter	No	Yes
Post	No	Yes

For imports, command-line program expects that you are converting from only one format to bguo. There was a case where I wanted to merge two formats for existing contacts, one for email addresses (MH) and the other for phone numbers (VoIP.MS). To do this, write a custom merging program with the functions in bguo.parse; examples/merge.py is an example.