Where to find a java library to read vcard files?

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I need a java library to read vcard files (vcf).

Answer 1

Cardme seems to be the best vcard library around with active development and there is even a wiki site up.

Check the project homepage.

Answer 2

ez-vcard supports versions 2.1, 3.0, and 4.0 of the vCard standard, as well as XML-encoded vCards ("xCard" standard), HTML-encoded vCards ("hCard" microformat), and JSON-encoded vCards ("jCard" standard).

https://github.com/mangstadt/ez-vcard

To read a vCard file, use the Ezvcard.parse() method. Then, call the various getter methods on the returned VCard object to retrieve the vCard data fields.

File file = new File("my-vcard.vcf");
VCard vcard = Ezvcard.parse(file).first();
System.out.println("Name: " + vcard.getFormattedName().getValue());
System.out.println("Email: " + vcard.getEmails().get(0).getValue());

Answer 3

A search for Java and vcard yields quite a few results.

In particular there's the Mime-Dir-j which is no longer under active development, but may be all you need, and vcard4j which seems to have been dormant for even longer (last release 2003!).

Answer 4

Try Google, Yahoo, whatever and find http://vcard4j.sourceforge.net/

Answer 5

Well, just in case you want to use a mobile phone, JSR75 does it right out of the box:

javax.microedition.pim.PIM.fromSerialFormat is specified as supporting vCard 3.0

Answer 6

Haven't used it yet (about to try it out), but this looks promising.

http://code.google.com/p/android-vcard/