Humans are visual 👀 beings. And me personally maybe even more than the average (I love emoji 🙈). So naturally, working with a contacts / address book 📔 like this:

isn’t very appealing to me. Now of course, I can go about an over time manually add pictures. But I have 400+ contacts in my address book. That wouldn’t scale 😞.

Soooo 💡: let’s find them on the web 🌐. Let’s program ⌨️ something 🎉🙌.

Long story short: check out patzm/contacts-updater on GitHub. A tiny Python-based command line tool for macOS 🍏. It has multiple profile picture providers, which I might extend over time. Also, open source collaborators are always welcome 🤗.

With this tool, I managed to find profile pictures for roughly 50% of my contacts 🚀. And I can re-run it whenever I want. No API rate limitations.

Now, my address book looks much more colorful 🧡💙💚💜❤️