QR Code For Contact Info Using Python

I wanted to learn how to make QR codes, so that I could make one with my contact information.

Contact Information:
The first step is to put together a contact file. You can export contact information you already have to a .vcf file, or you can put together a text file with your information. A sample would look like this:

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
N:Scout;Mark;;;
FN:Mark Scout
TEL;CELL:000-555-1234
EMAIL;HOME:user@example.com
ORG:Lumon Industries
TITLE:Macrodata Refiner
URL:https://lumon.industries/home/
URL:www.linkedin.com/company/lum0n-industries
END:VCARD

Save as a .vcf file.
Wikipedia has a list of VCF attributes.

QR Code:
There’s a Python library (qrcode) that will create our QR code our of our .vcf file.

pip install qrcode

We just have to run our VCF file through a Python call to get an image file (a PNG) with our QR code.

import qrcode

file1 = open('C:\\Temp\Contact.vcf')

data = file1.read()

img = qrcode.make(data)

file1.close()

img.save('C:\\Temp\Contact.png')

Having someone scan the QR code with their phone will create a contact with the information you entered in the VCF.