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6 items tagged “ical”

2022

GAS-ICS-Sync (via) Google Calendar can subscribe to ICS calendar feeds... but polls for updates less than once every 24 hours (as far as I can tell) greatly limiting their usefulness. Derek Antrican wrote a script using Google App Script which fixes this by polling calendar URLs more often and writing them to your calendar via the write API.

# 30th July 2022, 11:47 pm / google-calendar, ical

2020

Weeknotes: datasette-ics, datasette-upload-csvs, datasette-configure-fts, asgi-csrf

I’ve been preparing for the NICAR 2020 Data Journalism conference this week which has lead me into a flurry of activity across a plethora of different projects and plugins.

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2008

We’re added some iCal views to BBC Programmes. BBC /programmes is one of the most exciting public facing parts of the BBC’s online offerings.

# 19th July 2008, 11:48 pm / bbc, duncanrobertson, ical, slashprogrammes

sfical.py. Neat idea: write a CGI script that turns a proprietary API (in this case the SalesForce events API) in to standard ical format, then run it on your Mac’s local Apache server and subscribe to it from iCal.

# 27th June 2008, 8:09 am / apache, cgi, ical, mac, osx, salesforce, simon-fell

2007

Django, iCal and vObject. Easy iCal generation for Django using vObject.

# 1st August 2007, 11:09 am / derek-willis, django, ical, python, vobject

iConcertCal (via) “iConcertCal is a free iTunes plug-in that monitors your music library and generates a personalized calendar of upcoming concerts in your city.”

# 1st February 2007, 5:12 pm / ical, iconcertcal, music