Tools to extract data from Android Contacts Database (SQLite3). By default, it's located at /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.db although some manufacturers may change it.
The easy way to get contacts2.db is using adb tool:
$# adb pull /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/contacts2.dbMore information about Android Contacts Database can be found on:
Python tool by to export contacts data from Android Contacts Databases (SQLite3) to vCard 3.0 text files. It's useful to recover contacts data from an Android phone (contacts2.db) into Google Contacts or other services supporting vCard file format (.vcf).
acdb2vcf.py v2.0 supports:
- Android Contacts Database format (SQLite3).
- Account type filtering: Google, Exchange, WhatsApp, Telegram, Phone, SIM, ...
- Custom account types
- N, FN, ADR, BDAY, EMAIL, NOTE, ORG, ROLE, TEL properties from vCard 3.0 standard.
usage: acdb2vcf.py [-h] [--all] [--exchange] [--google] [--imap] [--phone] [--sim] [--telegram] [--tuenti] [--twitter] [--whatsapp] [--list-accounts] [--account [ACCOUNTS ...]] db_path [vcf_path]
positional arguments:
db_path Path to input contacts2.db
vcf_path Path to output vcf file
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--all, -a Export all accounts
--exchange Export contacts associated with "exchange" account
--google Export contacts associated with "google" account
--imap Export contacts associated with "imap" account
--phone Export contacts associated with "phone" account
--sim Export contacts associated with "sim" account
--telegram Export contacts associated with "telegram" account
--tuenti Export contacts associated with "tuenti" account
--twitter Export contacts associated with "twitter" account
--whatsapp Export contacts associated with "whatsapp" account
--list-accounts Just list accounts
--account [ACCOUNTS ...]
Export account that is not listed above
It's based on Python2 tool AndroidContactsDatabase-tools
Information about vCard 3.0 can be found at: