diff --git a/mod/update_contacts.php b/mod/update_contacts.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..863542e66
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mod/update_contacts.php
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+<?php
+
+// See update_profile.php for documentation
+
+use Friendica\App;
+use Friendica\Core\L10n;
+use Friendica\Core\PConfig;
+
+require_once 'mod/contacts.php';
+
+function update_contacts_content(App $a)
+{
+	header("Content-type: text/html");
+	echo "<!DOCTYPE html><html><body>\r\n";
+	echo "<section>";
+
+	if ($_GET["force"] == 1) {
+		$text = contacts_content($a, true);
+	} else {
+		$text = '';
+	}
+
+	if (PConfig::get(local_user(), "system", "bandwidth_saver")) {
+		$replace = "<br />".L10n::t("[Embedded content - reload page to view]")."<br />";
+		$pattern = "/<\s*audio[^>]*>(.*?)<\s*\/\s*audio>/i";
+		$text = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $text);
+		$pattern = "/<\s*video[^>]*>(.*?)<\s*\/\s*video>/i";
+		$text = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $text);
+		$pattern = "/<\s*embed[^>]*>(.*?)<\s*\/\s*embed>/i";
+		$text = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $text);
+		$pattern = "/<\s*iframe[^>]*>(.*?)<\s*\/\s*iframe>/i";
+		$text = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $text);
+	}
+
+	echo str_replace("\t", "       ", $text);
+	echo "</section>";
+	echo "</body></html>\r\n";
+	killme();
+}
