This blog entry will briefly note the steps to export your friendfeed subscribers name and emails. I imagine this will work w/ any social networking site that forwards email addresses (Plurk for example) but today I'm doing friendfeed. Tools used; Thunderbird, VIM, and Gmail.
In gmail create a filter to tag subscriptions from friendfeed.
Matches: subject:(subscribed to your <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed" title="FriendFeed" rel="wikipedia" class="zem_slink">FriendFeed</a>)
Do this: Apply label "freindfeed"Then, enable IMAP in gmail and synchronize with thunderbird to read your gmail email messages.
Next, copy the friendfeed folder to your Local Folder creating a duplicate mbox (ready to be edited and saved.) Now, browse to your thunderbird profile directory and open the frendfeed file. Example:
vi /home/czar/.thunderbird/3l3e7.default/Mail/Local\ Folders/freindfeedThen, friendfeed forwards subscribers email in the "Reply-To" section. To strip everything but this line us the following (in VIM.) *plurk users will need to change this to :v/Return-Path/d*
:v/Reply-To/dNote to self: :g/patern/d to delete all lines matching the pattern.
To convert this flat contacts listen into CSV ready is a trick. Using gedit (or OOo spreadsheet) search and replace the spaces and bracket into commas. Example:
First Name, Last Name, Email
john,doe,jdoe@gmail.com,
j,doe,doe@gmail.com,
,,nobody@gmail.com,Not all contacts were exported, yet 75% of my contacts completed name and email. The others were empty spaces or randomness. Once imported into gmail you can clean, add pictures, web-address, etc... and export into vCard or a clean CSV file.
It's not auto-magic, so if you need some help converting or backing from one social site to another post a comment...
