Skype: bulk import

westworld — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:05:41 +0000

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)

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