Re: BBDB related Firefox extension

[Daniel Brooks]

Gernot Hassenpflug <gernot@mb3.seikyou.ne.jp> writes:

> Daniel Brooks <db48x@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> I imagine that not everyone on this group follows Firefox extensions,
>> but there's a really interesting one that was released a few days
>> ago. It's called Operator (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4106/),
>> and basically it parses information from webpages that use
>> microformats (microformats.org) and gives the user ways to actually
>> use that information, such as sending the data to an address book, or
>> a mapping website.
>>
>> Since I use Gnus and BBDB for my email and address book, I wrote an
>> extension to it that takes contact information from an hCard and uses
>> emacsclient to insert it into the BBDB. It's available from
>> http://db48x.net/microformats/bbdb.js. It's still in the very early
>> stages, and all it can do is send the data to emacs. It can't detect
>> duplicate entries or try to merge them or anything like that, but I
>> thought someone might be interested.
>
> Wow! That sounds great. I will try this tonight. Hmm, never used the
> vCard/hCard microformats (although many MS Windows OS users have
> vCards attached to their emails), missed that bit of web magic!
>
> Would it be possible to modify such an extension in Thunderbird (or
> mozilla) also, read email adddresses from BBDB and add them to the
> Thunderbird (or mozilla) addressbook?

Yea, you could write an extension to do that. This one wouldn't be
suitable to modify for that purpose though. The easiest way to go
would be to read and parse the .bbdb file and put it's contents into
Thunderbird's address book.

Also, in case you've upgraded to Operator .6.1, there's a small change
that will need to be made to bbdb.js in order for it to work. I'll try
to make that change over the weekend.

db48x