Highrise Backup
I no longer use Highrise, but when I did, I used this Python script to back up my contacts. Hope it’s helpful to someone.
Updated 2009-12-14: Added license
#!/usr/bin/python
#
# Copyright (c) 2009, Andrew Ferrier All rights reserved.
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import httplib2
import getopt
import sys
try:
opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "a:d:", ["user-auth-token=", "domain="])
except getopt.GetoptError, err:
print str(err)
sys.exit(2)
userauthtoken = None
domain = None
for o, a in opts:
if o in ("-a", "--user-auth-token"):
userauthtoken = a
elif o in ("-d", "--domain"):
domain = a
else:
assert False, "unhandled option"
if userauthtoken == None or domain == None:
print "You must specify both the user-auth-token and the domain"
sys.exit(2)
url = "http://" + domain + ".highrisehq.com/people.xml"
http = httplib2.Http()
http.add_credentials(userauthtoken, "x")
offset = 0
content = ""
while True:
response, newContent = http.request(url + "?n=" + str(offset))
if response.status != 200:
sys.exit(response.status)
numContacts = newContent.count("")
offset += numContacts
content += newContent
if numContacts < 500:
break
print content
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