[Owncloud] Is exporting of addressbooks possible - maybe using cron?

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 02:41:03PM +0100, Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> On Friday 08 March 2013 10:19 Chris Green wrote:
> > I want to be able to copy addressbooks in and out of owncloud
> > automatically.  I have owncloud running on my own server at home so I
> > have direct access to it.
> > 
> > What would be useful would be a way to export the addressbook at
> > intervals.  Could this be done using cron?  I can't find any
> > documentation on the owncloud cron.
> > 
> > I guess I could simply DIY it by reading the database directly, that's
> > not so difficult but I was just wondering if someone had done it
> > already.
> 
> In the Contacts UI settings you get the CardDAV URL, something like 
> http://localhost/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/chris/contacts
> 
> Append '?export' to the end of that URL and enter your credentials.
> 
> Test with wget or curl. I use wget for my backups:
> 
> wget --auth-no-challenge --http-user=chris --http-password=xxxxxxxx -O \
>     backup.vcf http://localhost/owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/chris/contacts?export
> 
Brilliant, thank you.

-- 
Chris Green