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 alejandrolopezparra 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 v1.0 supports:
- Android Contacts Database format (SQLite3).
- Account type filtering: Google, Exchange, WhatsApp, Telegram, Phone, SIM, ...
- N, FN, ADR, BDAY, EMAIL, NOTE, ORG, ROLE, TEL properties from vCard 3.0 standard.
acdb2vcf.py v1.0 depends on:
- Python 2 by default but Python 3 is also supported.
- sqlite3 Python module.
acdb2vcf.py [options] <db_input> <vcf_output>
Arguments:
[options]
--all All contacts will be exported. By default
--google Google contacts will be exported
--exchange Exchange contacts will be exported
--telegram Telegram contacts will be exported
--twitter Twitter contacts will be exported
--phone Phone contacts will be exported
--tuenti Tuenti contacts will be exported
--whatsapp Whatsapp contacts will be exported
--imap Imap contacts will be exported
--sim Sim contacts will be exported
<db_input> Input Android Contact Database (SQLite3), e.g. contacts2.db
<vcf_output> Output Virtual Contact File (vCard) filename, e.g. MyContacts.vcf
It's based on the original tool and instructions by Andreas Böhler on https://www.aboehler.at/doku/doku.php/blog:2012:1007_recovering_contacts_from_dead_android_phone
It's also based on modifications by Ian Worthington on https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/extract-contacts-backup-t3307684
Information about vCard 3.0 can be found at: