title: Export contacts from ACT, Salesforce, Outlook, QuickBooks, etc
body: <p>What API's / SDK's / software tools are available to export contacts from popular CRM and accounting packages?</p>
  
  <p>What I'd like to do is offer an address book in my web application and have a button that says "Upload your contacts from X".  The user could then click a few buttons and his contacts would be automagically uploaded from X.</p>
  
  <p>A company called <a href="http://www.plaxo.com/api/widget" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Plaxo has a widget</a> that does exactly what I am looking for, BUT:</p>
  
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  <li>They only support a limited number of data sources (I am most interested in ACT, Salesforce, Outlook, and QuickBooks), and </li>
  <li>They only support e-mail addresses.  I am most interested in street addresses ("123 Main St, Anywhere, CA, 90123")</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>A company called Constant Contact has various tools for popular CRM packages, such as ACT, QuickBooks, and Salesforce.   These tools upload contacts into their Constant Contact web application.   When you login to Constant Contact, click on "Contacts" and click on "Import Tools," you get presented with a number of tools.  Most require a download.  This is basically what I want for my web app.</p>