News
- 06.06.2012: pyCardDAV v0.3.4 released:
- this fixes an issue with davical > 1.1
- 27.01.2012: pyCardDAV v0.3.3 released:
New sabredav/owncloud support, thanks Davide Gerhard.
Fixes a bug where properties with no type parameters were not printed.
This release also fixes a small database bug.
The config file has a new entry (davserver) which you can set to either davical or sabredav (depending on your CardDAV server).
Future: The source code has been cleaned up quite a bit (nearly every line of code has been touched) and some features have been added. Write support is nearly finished in the backend (but will probably not be included in the next release yet), but the frontend is still really buggy and a pain to use. If you want to have a look, check the repository out at github and check the branch write_support (but it might me broken).
- 06.01.2012: pyCardDAV v0.3.2 released:
- this is a minor bugfix update, db deleting should not be necessary. If everything is working fine at the moment, there is no need to upgrade.
- 06.01.2012: pyCardDAV v0.3.1 released:
this bugfix release fixes some bugs on Debian and a formatting bug (thanks to Antoine Sirinelli) and one more unicode bug (thanks to Thomas Klausner). Also, some more meaningful error messages were added.
Attention if you are upgrading: you should delete the old database again and resync using pycardsyncer
- 08.12.2011: pyCardDAV v0.3 released:
this fixes an unicode bug and has a lot of internal changes
Attention pc-query has been renamed to pc_query, make sure to delete the old database, also the config file format has somewhat changed
- 10.10.2011: pyCardDAV v0.2.1 released
- this fixes a minor bug in the example config file
- 14.09.2011: pyCardDAV v0.2 released
- New config files are now supported
- 13.09.2011: pyCardDAV moved to github
- feel free to fork etc.
- 12.08.2011: pyCardDAV v0.1 released
- first public version
About
pyCardDAV is supposed to provide a simple way of accessing a CardDAV resource, mainly for use with mutt's query_command, but it might be of some use solo. pyCardDAV consists of pycardsyncer, a program for syncing your CardDAV resource into a local database and of pc_query, a program for querying the local database. pyCardDAV is some ugly python code that holds together vobject, lxml, PyCurl and pysqlite.
Features
(or rather: limitations)
- pyCardDAV can only use one addressbook resource at the moment
- pyCardDAV is read-only for now
- pyCardDAV is only tested against davical and owncloud/sabredav
- Warning your password is stored in cleartext in the config file
Installation
You can download pyCardDAV either from the above download link or check it out at github. Move pc_query and pycardsyncer to some folder in your PATH. Copy and edit the supplied pycard.conf.sample file (default location is ~/.pycard/pycard.conf). Beware that only you can access this file, if you have untrusted users on your machine, since the password is stored in cleartext.
Make sure you have pysqlite3, py-vobject, pycurl and py-lxml installed. Users of python versions < 2.7 will also need to install argparse.
pyCardDAV has so far been successfully tested on recent versions of FreeBSD, NetBSD, Debian and Ubuntu with python 2.6 and 2.7 and against davical 0.9.9.4 - 1.0.1 (later versions should be ok, too, but 0.9.9.3 and earlier don't seem to work) and owncloud (which uses sabredav).
NetBSD/pkgsrc users can install pyCardDAV via pkgsrc.
Usage
Execute pycardsyncer to sync your addresses to the local database (I am doing this every 60 minutes via cronjob). You can test pc_query with:
% pc_query searchstring
By default pyCardDAV only prints the names, email addresses and telephone numbers of contacts matching the search string, to see all vCard properties use the "-a" option.
For usage with mutt etc., pyCardDAV can also print only email addresses in a mutt friendly format (with the "-m" option). Edit your mutt configuration so that query_command uses pc_query:
Example from .muttrc:
set query_command="/home/username/bin/pc_query -m '%s'"
Feedback
Please do provide feedback if pyCardDAV works for you or even more importantly if it doesn't. You can reach me by email at pycarddav@lostpackets.de , by jabber/XMPP at geier@jabber.ccc.de or via github
License
pyCardDAV is released as beer-ware
"THE BEER-WARE LICENSE" (Revision 42): Christian Geier wrote this file. As long as you retain this notice you can do whatever you want with this stuff. If we meet some day, and you think this stuff is worth it, you can buy me a beer in return Christian Geier