Contacts.app command line interface

Question

Is there a CLI front-end to the Contacts.app (formerly Address Book.app) database?

Example:

mycontacts --email '*@google.com' # to get Googlers

Answer 1

Contacts still has AppleScript support. You can see documentation for the supported properties and commands by opening its dictionary in AppleScript Editor.

osascript -e 'tell app "Contacts" to properties of people where vcard contains "@gmail.com"'

I didn't find a way to check the actual email fields using a single specifier.

set l to {}
tell application "Contacts"
    repeat with p in people
        repeat with e in (get value of emails of p)
            if contents of e ends with "@gmail.com" then set end of l to name of p
        end repeat
    end repeat
end tell
l