Import Gmail contacts into BBDB

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  • Go to http://contacts.google.com, click the menu "More>>Export…>>vCard format (blah, blah …)".
  • Click "Export" button. Download the contacts.vcf.
  • Make sure bbdb-vcard.el installed.
  • In Emacs run "M-x bbdb-vcard-import-file" and input the full path of contacts.vcf
  • In Emacs run "M-x bbdb-save"
  • Remove contacts whose names are empty. These are Google Plus people inserted automatically by Gmail:

Run the command in shell: 

# the orginal ~/.bbdb will be saved as ~/.bbdb.bak
sed -i.bak '/["" ""/d' ~/.bbdb
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