An AppleScript to publish Address Book as HTML

May 19, '05 09:13:00AM

Contributed by: robophilosopher

I'm not sure what sort of tools DotMac may or may not have for this, but I've once or twice thought "gee, I wish I had a copy of my Mac address book online somewhere, so I could get to it from away from my Mac." Now that school is over for the year and I've had time to teach myself some more AppleScript, I wrote a little AppleScript to save my Address Book in HTML form. It doesn't do anything fancy, and isn't very easy on the eyes (a cost of having very readable code). If anyone out there wants to make the page prettier, I'd love to see (and use) the changes. Here's what you need to do to run the script:

Some things that still remain to be done: [robg adds: I tested this script, and it worked as described.]

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