Circles Takeout Export to Google Contacts Import.
Choose Takeout G+Circles, CSV format. If you have any circles of > 3000 break it into multiple sheets each of < 3000 rows.
Go to https://contacts.google.com/ Choose more, import CSV file. Choose one of your circle files, Import. Merge Duplicates. Repeat for each file. At the end run a find duplicates.
It looks to me like Google is querying the G+ Profiles for public information as part of the import. There are no emails or contact info in the Takeout Export. But the Contacts Import was finding them.
At the the end, Google Contacts can export the merged files to CSV or VCF for onward export into other systems.
https://contacts.google.com/
Choose Takeout G+Circles, CSV format. If you have any circles of > 3000 break it into multiple sheets each of < 3000 rows.
Go to https://contacts.google.com/ Choose more, import CSV file. Choose one of your circle files, Import. Merge Duplicates. Repeat for each file. At the end run a find duplicates.
It looks to me like Google is querying the G+ Profiles for public information as part of the import. There are no emails or contact info in the Takeout Export. But the Contacts Import was finding them.
At the the end, Google Contacts can export the merged files to CSV or VCF for onward export into other systems.
https://contacts.google.com/
I don’t understand why you would need to do this. Google Contacts already shows all of my G+ circles in it.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne yeah, but will that be the case once G+ dies ?
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne Hmmm. I was using the new contacts preview. And that doesn't have circle options in the left hand sidepane. But maybe the circle entries are already in there. Except that after doing the import above, I gained 1000 or so contacts.
ReplyDeleteAren't these already in your Gmail?
ReplyDeleteJamez Frondeskias See above comments.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure at all, at all. In the old gmail contacts, there are sections for your circles. But does that mean that people in your circles are in your main contacts list? Or simply that the interface provides a look into the circles and they are actually separate. The new gmail interface doesn't have sections for G+ Circles.