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Re: address book data without opening app?
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Re: address book data without opening app?


  • Subject: Re: address book data without opening app?
  • From: Michael Grant <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 22:02:20 -0500

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Philip Aker <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 2009-05-27, at 10:05:16, Michael Grant wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to access Mac Address Book data in AppleScript
>> without actually opening the application? Maybe through shell
>> commands?
>
> There are interfaces available in C and Objective-C.
> The framework for both is /System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework.

Can you point me to any documentation on how to use that stuff in AS?
Actually I've been making some progress today with sqlite in the
terminal and using "do shell script", so that'll probably be
sufficient, although the AB schema's a little cryptic in places.

Thanks,
Michael


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