diff --git a/mod/contacts.php b/mod/contacts.php
index 4a0d34a46..5d40ff994 100644
--- a/mod/contacts.php
+++ b/mod/contacts.php
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@
 require_once('include/Contact.php');
 require_once('include/socgraph.php');
 require_once('include/contact_selectors.php');
+require_once('include/Scrape.php');
 require_once('mod/proxy.php');
+require_once('include/Photo.php');
 
 function contacts_init(&$a) {
 	if(! local_user())
@@ -205,8 +207,70 @@ function contacts_post(&$a) {
 /*contact actions*/
 function _contact_update($contact_id) {
 	// pull feed and consume it, which should subscribe to the hub.
-	proc_run('php',"include/poller.php","$contact_id"); 
+	proc_run('php',"include/poller.php","$contact_id");
 }
+
+function _contact_update_profile($contact_id) {
+	$r = q("SELECT `url`, `network` FROM `contact` WHERE `id` = %d", intval($contact_id));
+	if (!$r)
+		return;
+
+	$data = probe_url($r[0]["url"]);
+
+	// "Feed" is mostly a sign of communication problems
+	if (($data["network"] == NETWORK_FEED) AND ($data["network"] != $r[0]["network"]))
+		return;
+
+	$updatefields = array("name", "nick", "url", "addr", "batch", "notify", "poll", "request", "confirm",
+				"poco", "network", "alias", "pubkey");
+	$update = array();
+
+	foreach($updatefields AS $field)
+		if (isset($data[$field]) AND ($data[$field] != ""))
+			$update[$field] = $data[$field];
+
+	$update["nurl"] = normalise_link($data["url"]);
+
+	$query = "";
+
+	if (isset($data["priority"]) AND ($data["priority"] != 0))
+		$query = "`priority` = ".intval($data["priority"]);
+
+	foreach($update AS $key => $value) {
+		if ($query != "")
+			$query .= ", ";
+
+		$query .= "`".$key."` = '".dbesc($value)."'";
+	}
+
+	if ($query == "")
+		return;
+
+	$r = q("UPDATE `contact` SET $query WHERE `id` = %d AND `uid` = %d",
+		intval($contact_id),
+		intval(local_user())
+	);
+
+	$photos = import_profile_photo($data['photo'], local_user(), $contact_id);
+
+	$r = q("UPDATE `contact` SET `photo` = '%s',
+			`thumb` = '%s',
+			`micro` = '%s',
+			`name-date` = '%s',
+			`uri-date` = '%s',
+			`avatar-date` = '%s'
+			WHERE `id` = %d",
+			dbesc($photos[0]),
+			dbesc($photos[1]),
+			dbesc($photos[2]),
+			dbesc(datetime_convert()),
+			dbesc(datetime_convert()),
+			dbesc(datetime_convert()),
+			intval($contact_id)
+		);
+
+}
+
 function _contact_block($contact_id, $orig_record) {
 	$blocked = (($orig_record['blocked']) ? 0 : 1);
 	$r = q("UPDATE `contact` SET `blocked` = %d WHERE `id` = %d AND `uid` = %d",
@@ -284,6 +348,12 @@ function contacts_content(&$a) {
 			// NOTREACHED
 		}
 
+		if($cmd === 'updateprofile') {
+			_contact_update_profile($contact_id);
+			goaway($a->get_baseurl(true) . '/crepair/' . $contact_id);
+			// NOTREACHED
+		}
+
 		if($cmd === 'block') {
 			$r = _contact_block($contact_id, $orig_record[0]);
 			if($r) {
@@ -734,7 +804,7 @@ function contacts_content(&$a) {
 		),
 		'$paginate' => paginate($a),
 
-	)); 
-	
+	));
+
 	return $o;
 }
diff --git a/mod/crepair.php b/mod/crepair.php
index 400817d6f..55231faf7 100644
--- a/mod/crepair.php
+++ b/mod/crepair.php
@@ -160,8 +160,12 @@ function crepair_content(&$a) {
 	else
 		$remote_self_options = array('0'=>t('No mirroring'), '2'=>t('Mirror as my own posting'));
 
+	$update_profile = in_array($contact['network'], array(NETWORK_DFRN, NETWORK_DSPR, NETWORK_OSTATUS));
+
 	$tpl = get_markup_template('crepair.tpl');
 	$o .= replace_macros($tpl, array(
+		'$update_profile' => update_profile,
+		'$udprofilenow' => t('Refetch contact data'),
 		'$label_name' => t('Name'),
 		'$label_nick' => t('Account Nickname'),
 		'$label_attag' => t('@Tagname - overrides Name/Nickname'),
diff --git a/view/templates/crepair.tpl b/view/templates/crepair.tpl
index a94f1f2d3..5b3a6281e 100644
--- a/view/templates/crepair.tpl
+++ b/view/templates/crepair.tpl
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 
 <h4>{{$contact_name}}</h4>
 
+<div id="contact-update-profile-wrapper">
+{{if $update_profile}}
+	<span id="contact-update-profile-now" class="button"><a href="contacts/{{$contact_id}}/updateprofile" >{{$udprofilenow}}</a></span>
+{{/if}}
+</div>
+
 <label id="crepair-name-label" class="crepair-label" for="crepair-name">{{$label_name}}</label>
 <input type="text" id="crepair-name" class="crepair-input" name="name" value="{{$contact_name|escape:'html'}}" />
 <div class="clear"></div>