Out of the box, Skype doesn’t have a bulk import feature. I only found one extra and it costs 15$.
Here’s a tip how to do it for free.
- Open Skype and go to ‘Contacts’
- Go to Advanced
- Backup contacts to file
- Open the backup with Notepad or another text editor
- The file is full of vcards, just copy a vcard, and past it at the bottom. All you have to do is alter the info. (ref is reference to importtime so you don’t have to alter this tag)
- if you need to import many contacts, write a script to add extra vcards.
- When your file is ready, go back to Skype/Advanced and import restore the backup.
An autoit script to do this might look something like the code below (untested)
Phone.xls has a column with nummers and a column with names
#include
$oExcel = _ExcelBookOpen("phone.xls")
_ExcelSheetActivate($oExcel,"sheetName")
For $i = 1 To 3 ;Loop
$phone = _ExcelReadCell($oExcel, 1, $i);cell with phone
$name = _ExcelReadCell($oExcel, 1, $i);cell with name
$file = FileOpen("backupfile.vcf", 1)
; Check if file opened for writing OK
If $file = -1 Then
MsgBox(0, "Error", "Unable to open file.")
Exit
EndIf
FileWriteLine($file, "BEGIN:VCARD")
FileWriteLine($file, "VERSION:3.0")
FileWriteLine($file, "N:"+$phone)
FileWriteLine($file, "X-SKYPE-PSTNNUMBER:"+ $phone)
FileWriteLine($file, "X-SKYPE-DISPLAYNAME:"+ $name + " " + $phone)
FileWriteLine($file, "REV:01091022T130411Z")
FileWriteLine($file, "END:VCARD")
FileClose($file)
Next
_ExcelBookClose($oExcel)