Gmail – export the Facebook friends’ contact info to Gmail

I also have this need, but have not found a perfect solution yet. Here is my semi-painful solution:

First I registered at Backupify, they generate a backup of my Facebook data once in a while.
And here is what I do when I want to sync from Facebook to my address book:

1. In the Backupify, open the `***_MetaData` file, where *** is your Facebook name.
2. In each line of this file, retrieve facebook id, name, birthday, current location.

I actually wrote a trivial script that filters out the friends whose facebook id is not already in my address book, to produce an HTML list of links to the missing friends' Facebook info pages, from where I can copy-paste.

Getting the phone numbers automatically would probably require screen-scraping, which I don't do.

I have given up on:

• Full automation.
• Synchronization of contacts that I have already in my address book.

But I would be glad if someone came with a better solution.

Sounds like you're looking for WriteThat.name:

http://writethat.name

It's a service that scans your incoming emails and adds their signature info to your Google Contacts address book automatically. (& supposedly also updates them over time). I haven't tried it, but have recently heard at least 5 people give it good reviews.

It's Google-centric, but since you're talking about Goggles, I assume that might be of interest to you.