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This is my secound attempt at a hCard to gmail converter and the first using hKit this bookmark passes the Page URL to
www.jkg3.com/x2gmail/convert.php?url=[url here]
You can call this directly and it will produce the CSV download file.
To use this bookmarklet, just drag this to you bookmark folders.
have fun.
a few weeks ago, i had the pleasure of going to Bristol with my freinds sue and her charge. yesterday we returned.
Last time we went, myself and her charge went onto the SS great briston which is Brunels great steamship. This time i went on again with her new charge. he didnt seem very intrested, but this time i took the time to read all the history of the ship and to get a good look at all the displays. some of them are very intresting.
Here is one of the many photos i took while we were in bristol. (click for larger view)
see my flickr acount for more photos.
Last time after we went abord the SS Great Britain we took a ferry around the harbour and into the center of Bristol.
As we propelled our way up the harbour, the sun was setting. There was a man on the boat who was deaf, and i enjpyed signing with him for a few minites. Its very rare i get a chance to use my sign language.
When we got back into the town we walked back toward where the car was parked and we looked into an archutechture shop, and we had a look around thier gallery.
from there we walked back to the car and then traveled home.
however, this time, we went further into the center of bristol and we went and ate at the pizza hut. in centeral bristol.
from there we walked back though all the different bulding and traveld back to taunton from there.
My thanks to Sue for a nice day out and an escape from this hell hole where i live. Thanks Sue
hCard, as you may well know is a way of adding semantic value to information about people on webpage’s. This is great, but for it to be really useful there needs a service which takes advantage of this and formats the data in a usable way.
There have been a few hCard to vCard sevices which are great, enabling you to get those bleeding edge hCard into contact applications like outlook, Mac address book, and even many phones, but what about internet clients?
How to get hCard to gmail
I am a prolific gmail user, being online it means that i can store things in one place and access it on my travels. However, gmail does not currently work with vCards, so if I wish to add a contact I have no way to do it automatically using the hCard data.
Well, I didn’t but I do now. I have been developing a conversion service just like the hCard to vCard but from hCard to the .CSV file gmail needs. This converter is only in the early stages yet, but should be online and open for use by the general public soon.
Also in development is a bookmarklet that will allow you to extract any hCard to you gmail contacts. Currently the system has some limitations but I am hoping to sort these out before it goes live… all I need now is the XSLT extension on my host to be sorted.
My converter is based on the awesome code of x2v written by Brian Suda, and Thomas Bruederli’s wonderfully useful vCard to CSV which is released under GNU GPL and was immensely useful when writing my hCard to vCard, Thanks Guys.
As soon as I get a service with XSLT up and running I will be placing the converter service online and I will be releasing all the code back out under the open source GNU GPL.
Untill i release my code i relise there is no service to convert hCard to the gmail CSV if that is what you are trying to do then i recommend this method.
Get the hCard converted from the page with the following bookmarklet (just drag it to the favorites bar, or add to favorites)
Then upload that vCard to the service at:
http://labs.brotherli.ch/vcfconvert/
Then import that file to gmail contacts.
If you have found this article useful, or want to contact me regarding the hCard to CSV converter then please comment or e-mail me.