facebook integration

[nolybom]

This script looks by far most promising than any comparabel i found here on github. And your todo-List is even nicer.
Too bad you this isn't maintained anymore. -_-

Could you please give us a hint on how to add location to the .ics ? And maybe how to integrate facebook?

This might help: https://github.com/chrisnoisel/FB-events-to-iCalendar

[Frimkron]

Hi @nolybom, thanks for the interest.

Adding a location field should be a relatively simple change, although I don't have much time to implement this myself. You'd need to update the input parser(s) and the iCalendar output formatter (location is just a simple text field if I remember the RFC correctly).

I did look into Facebook integration, and obviously this is a sought-after feature as so many events are organised via Facebook's system these days. From what I remember there was no option to access event data without a user login, even for public pages and groups, so there were security considerations that I hadn't quite figured out yet. I guess it would involve getting the site admin to put their access token in the config file.

Actually one of the reasons I've not updated this project in a while is because I didn't have a use case for it myself, and nor did anyone I knew! Turns out it's hard to convince people that calendar feeds are a good idea ;) So I'd be interested to know what context you're looking to use this script in. Is it a static website, or php application (what framework, if any?), or CMS instance e.g. Wordpress, or a web application in some other language (Rails? Node?). Is there some kind of package or plugin manager that your platform uses? I'm a little out of the loop when it comes to PHP but I'm thinking this might be more useful as a Wordpress or Symphony plugin or something.

[nolybom]

What you need is just the facebook ID of a public facebook page and a access_token. The json-feed has all information which are needed to create the .ics file.
Since the location info is also available it could be easily integrated.
I am currently looking for a plain PHP solution and trying to combine your and the above script with limited programming knowHow. My goal is to offer an event calendar on a website the user could add to his own calendar.