A command-line uploader for the telephone directory (phone book) of a Fritz!Box. This software has been tested on a
- FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7270
- FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN 7390
This program can do all sorts of bad things for you, so be warned.
It begins with a simple CSV file which can easily be generated from, say, LDAP, or CouchDB, MySQL or whatever other database you have your contacts in. The input file is the CSV such as
#Name;home;work;mobile;quickdial;main
Jolie, Jane;+1-555-1234;+49 555 6302547;0171-1234567;3;home
Jones, Catherine;[email protected];994995;;64;home
Lines beginning with a hash (#) are ignored, as are blank lines. Use the csv2xml script included herein to translate that to the XML required by the Fritz!Box. The program creates (or clobbers) a file called phonebook.xml.
$ ./csv2xml < phonebook.csv
Before uploading your phonebook.xml to the Fritz!Box, you'll want to backup the current telephone book; do so within the Web interface of the Fritz!Box.
To upload the phonebook.xml, run
$ ./fritzuploader password
Success: phonebook uploaded
where password is the password you use to log in to your Fritz!Box Web interface. (Note this password will be visible by tools such as ps and it will be in your shell history. If you're not alone on your machine, fix it by hardcoding it into the program.)
Beware: the phone book is written into flash memory on the Fritz!Box -- don't run this program too frequently.
Yeah, sure.
If the upload fails, e.g. because the XML contains rubbish, we don't get an HTTP error code or such; instead, the Fritzbox returns an HTML page from which you'll have to determine what went wrong.