How to add an address from the web to Contacts

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How to add an address from the web to Contacts

Ok, so I've been searching high and low and maybe I'm just not wording my search query properly but here's what I want to do, if it's at all possible:

I want to be able to google an address, say for a restaurant or my denstist, then take the resulting information and add it to my mac contacts without having to manually open Contacts and input the information into each individual field. Like perhaps a plugin that will allow me to right click that address and add it to my contacts into their respective fields?

Anyone know how I can achieve this? Frankly, I don't know why it isn't built into Safari, as it is something that I constantly find myself needing to do. I know that you can set location based reminders with Siri on iPhone, but what good does it do me if I don't add the grocery store address to my contacts? I don't want to manually look for each location, add in it's information, just to have a location based reminder. Seems like a very ***-backwards and lengthy route for the simplicity a location-based-reminder is supposed to support.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2), iMessages

Posted on May 20, 2013 2:14 PM

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Answer 1

May 20, 2013 5:07 PM in response to Barney-15E

Barney,

Thanks a bunch and yes, I had already seen that. Guess I'll just have to settle for Apple to add proper data detectors to Safari. I did acknowledge that I would need something that would create a new contact with passed info, unfortunately, that isn't an option that I could find. Also, I assume since that option is available in Mail, there must be some form of string query/script/automation buried inside the Mail package contents that could possible be mimicked to the desired effect in Safari.

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May 20, 2013 4:08 PM in response to Mike From O'ahu

So, I have found that if I email the webpage with the address in it, I can use mail to add to Contacts. My current solution, but there MUST be a way to do it via Safari...

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Barney-15E

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May 20, 2013 4:43 PM in response to Mike From O'ahu

For your Automator Workflow, I think you need to accept text from Safari, not Addresses. I think Addresses in this context are URLs, but I'm not sure. I don't have a Mac right now to check.

The last Action is also wrong. You need something that Creates a new Contact with passed information. Again, not at my Mac, so I can't look it up.

I thought Safari used the Data Detectors, too. Based on this: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071108065202610,

I guess it hasn't ever supported them. They recommend doing what you have been doing, email the page to yourself.

And, I assume you've seen this: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4519

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Barney-15E

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May 20, 2013 2:34 PM in response to Mike From O'ahu

The Data Detectors will usually identify address information and add a popup menu to add it to Contacts. If it is coded into the website such that it isn't detected, then I don't know if there is something that can parse it and insert.

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May 20, 2013 2:43 PM in response to Barney-15E

Barney,

Fantastic, this looks like it could potentially help me, but when I go to substittutions in Safari, they're all greyed out and only two of them are checkmarked. Any clue how I can get them to function?

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Answer 6

May 20, 2013 2:47 PM in response to Barney-15E

Nevermind, I somehow found them active on a different search. Now I checkmarked all substitutions, but unfortunately, it still won't allow me to add an address from a google search to my contacts. I'm going to attempt to automate a service and seeing if it's possible through there.

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Answer 7

May 20, 2013 3:50 PM in response to Mike From O'ahu

Well, my attempted automation yielded no results. Perhaps my inputs were out of order? I attempted to use the following string, but to no avail 😟 Guess I'll continue to wait for a fix....

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May 20, 2013 5:45 PM in response to Mike From O'ahu

Data Detectors is what it is, but it is not a script or such, that I'm aware of.

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