Synchronisation: Google Contacts to FastMail Address Book

14 Apr 2009, 09:17 AM	#1
kirill Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 879	Synchronisation: Google Contacts to FastMail Address Book Recently Google launched support for synchronizing contacts between Google and mobile phones. I didn't use Google's address book, but now that I can keep it synchronized with my phone I started to. Now using Google Contacts/mobile phone as a master source for my contact information, what would happen to FastMail's address book? The informaiton will slowly be outdated. I'd hate to do updates two places. Could the FM address book be kept in synch with Google Contacts? Hah! Sure thing! So please welcome a small script that basically copies Google Contacts to FastMail address book and keeps the copied contacts in sync. Updated contacts will be updated, deleted will be deleted. Just run the script. With some magic hackery it will work on windows, thanks to Strawberry Perl. The sync is going from Google to FM. It's not hard to make it happen both ways. The script uses a slightly undocumented feature of FM - SOAP access to your data that are stored at FM. Cool, huh? Subscribe to fm-talk list for more interesting discussions.

14 Apr 2009, 10:15 PM	#2
Fabaus Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 171	If I remember correctly, Fastcheck uses SOAP.... Do you think it would be possible to have something like Fastcheck do this automagically through a fastcommand or something else? Fabaus

14 Apr 2009, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by kirill

The script uses a slightly undocumented feature of FM - SOAP

14 Apr 2009, 10:52 PM	#4
kirill Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 879	It's a bit documented, but not much. There're some Database_* calls that are not documented. And the structure of the tables that these Database_* calls support is also not there. But that's not the point really.

14 Apr 2009, 11:04 PM	#5
akorvemaker Master of the @ Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Canada Posts: 1,015	While I don't really use Google's contacts, this looks really neat. Thanks for providing this for the FM community! Andy

14 Apr 2009, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by kirill

But that's not the point really.

Indeed.
Thanks for providing this

24 Apr 2009, 08:02 AM	#7
kirill Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 879	Here's some more code sharing from me. This one will dump the contents of your FM address book in JSON format. It also documents the structure of some tables a little bit. Enjoy: http://km.krot.org/code/fmab.pl Kirill P.S. There're a couple of Perl 5.10-isms in the script. If you don't have Perl 5.10 available, just replace "say" with "print" (don't forget the newline at the end of the line) and "//" with a check for definedness. You probably know what that means anyway.

9 May 2009, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ForexGuides

The iPhone is indeed a wonderful little device and ...

This is plain copy & paste (see e.g. http://theappleblog.com/2008/10/29/i...ogle-calendar/ ) and doesn't belong on this forum IMHO.

10 May 2009, 02:09 AM	#9
neilj Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Melbourne Posts: 971 Representative of: Fastmail.fm	Umm, we're getting a bit off topic here but I feel it necessary to point out that a 3rd party service is not required to sync a google calendar with an iPhone; Google supports this natively: http://www.google.com/support/mobile...ng&topic=14252 Neil

10 May 2009, 06:17 AM	#10
kirill Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Jun 2001 Posts: 879	Yes, Neil, it became slightly OT since ForexGuides' post. Actually I'd rather see that post nuked or moved away...