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Exporter for Contacts (was "Export Address Book") is a popular Mac app to export contact data from Address Book to EXCEL, CSV and other formats, capable of organizing export setups in customizable templates to make repeated exports a lot easier.
The app lets you export selected contacts, groups and whole address books. It lets you decide which contact fields will be exported and in what order. 
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Overview of the Contacts app we will be using in this video series.
The Contacts app is a FileMaker Starter file with dummy data for demonstration.
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Apple’s Contacts app is much more than Grandma’s little black book, and its integration with your Mac gives it a lot of flexibility. For what it can’t do, others have picked up the slack.
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Exporting Your Address Book
Sometimes it’s easy to provide your contacts to other applications: a program may simply ask permission, and the transport happens seamlessly. At other times, though, you must export your contact data before you can import it elsewhere.
Contacts provides two export formats: vCard or a Contacts Archive.
vCard is useful for importing into many programs on a variety of platforms. A Contacts Archive, on the other hand, is only used to transfer your contacts to another Mac that is also running Contacts.
What if your destination app doesn’t understand vCard and wants a text file? Unfortunately, Contacts lacks a simple text export option that puts your contacts into the common tab-delimited or comma-separated text formats. Luckily, there are utilities that can read your contacts list and export it as a comma-separated or tab-separated text file, suitable for import into such programs as Excel, FileMaker, Outlook, and Sales Force.
One such app is Subclassed’s Export Address Book ($3.99). http://www.subclassed.com/software/export_address_book/details
This little gem even includes hidden fields like Creation and Modification Date in the exported text file.
Didier Daglinckx's insight:
When you want a basic way to get your contacts from OSX Address book into Filemaker look at Export Address Book.
If you need to go deeper on that road you will probably need the Address Book Manipulator plugin
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Contacts plugin
With the iPhone, iPad and iCloud services the need for a good connection between Apple's contacts and your Filemaker solutions is becoming more and more important
that's why Froodware developed the address book plugin for Filemaker, a plugin that enables you to copy and update contacts from Apple's contacts to Filemaker, and the other way around
included is a people-picker window from which you can select Apple contacts directly from within your Filemaker database
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You can export your Contacts and insert them in FileMaker.
Also look at : http://www.scoop.it/t/learning-filemaker?q=contact+export
and http://www.productivecomputing.com/address-book-integration if you want a full bi-directional tool.