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Zoho Contact Photos

This is a Python script that adds photos to the user's contacts in Zoho Contacts in Zoho Mail.

Description

This script downloads a list of all the user's contacts from Zoho Mail, attempts to locate a photo for each one, and if found it uploads that photo to the contact.

It relies on the backdoor solution of using the user's cookies to grant access to Zoho Mail. This is partly because adding a photo to a contact is not part of their official API.

The contact photos are stored in a folder (named photos by default) and are saved in the format *Firstname*Lastname*.jpg. The * is a wildcard that represents anything, so suffixes and prefixes won't cause photos to be missed. You can get these photos anywhere, but I was able to source mine from my Google Contacts using Google Takeout.

Installation & Setup

  1. Download the script and install Python 3.8 and the requirements in requirements.txt.
  2. Have a folder named photos in the current directory with the contacts photos.
    • These should be saved in the format *Firstname*Lastname*.jpg. The * is a wildcard that represents anything ( such as spaces, suffixes, or prefixes).
    • These can be downloaded straight from Google Contacts using Google Takeout.
  3. Open Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge and log into Zoho Mail at mail.zoho.com.
  4. Open a new tab, open the developer tools (F12), and go to the Network tab.
  5. In the new tab visit https://mail.zoho.com/zm/zc/api/v1/accounts/self/contacts and look for the request to the contacts page in the Network tab (see screenshot below).
  6. Open this request, go to the Headers tab, and under the Request Headers section, copy the Cookie header value.
  7. Run the script, and paste the cookies you copied when prompted.

Screenshot of the Network tab in the developer tools

Usage

python -m update_photos will run the script. It runs completely in the terminal.

License

GNU GPLv3