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VCF test files

Contact files for testing address book imports and CRM uploads, in vCard 3.0 or 4.0.

Open the .vcf generator

Or start from a preset

What is a VCF file?

Short answer

A VCF file holds one or more vCards: BEGIN:VCARD, a VERSION line, properties like FN, N, EMAIL and TEL, and END:VCARD. vCard 4.0 is RFC 6350; 3.0 is RFC 2426 and still the most common.

Importers get tripped by the differences between versions (how TEL and PHOTO are written), by escaped commas and semicolons in structured values, by folded lines, and by large embedded photos.

Anatomy of a VCF file

  • BEGIN:VCARDStarts a contact
  • VERSION:4.0Must come right after BEGIN
  • FN / NFormatted and structured name
  • EMAIL / TELWith TYPE parameters
  • ADRSeven components separated by ;
  • PHOTOBase64 image, written per version

What you can generate

  • vCard 4.0 or 3.0
  • Unicode names
  • Several emails and phones, with PREF
  • Addresses, organisation and title with escaped commas and semicolons
  • Birthdays, notes with line breaks, categories
  • Base64 PNG photos
  • Lines folded at 75 octets

How to make one

  1. Open the VCF generator, or start from a preset above.
  2. Set the size and switch on the edge cases you need; the preview and size estimate follow every change.
  3. Generate, then download. The file is made in your browser, and the same preset and seed always give you the same file.

Questions

Use 3.0 for the widest support (older Outlook and phones), and 4.0 to test modern parsers.

No. They use the 555-01xx range set aside for fiction, and emails are on example.test.

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