jzohrab / py-ical-to-org

A python replacement for the awk script https://github.com/msherry/ical2org

Python download google ical and write to org file.

A replacement for the nice ical-to-org-via-awk script, https://github.com/msherry/ical2org/blob/master/ical2org.awk

ical2org.awk is nice, but it wasn't working for me for a few important things:

• Wasn't correctly interpreting scheduled events with special rules (e.g., "repeat every 2 weeks on M, W, F")
• Wouldn't let me mark past events as DONE (at least, not easily!)
• Tricky/sometimes flaky processing of repeated events
• ... it's written in awk. Which is great, but Python is easier to grok. :-P

This script doesn't print all of the details that ical2org.awk does (such as various properties), it prints out the bare minimum that I needed for my calendar; namely, the calendar entry title, and the start and end dates.

Sample schedule.org output:

* training
SCHEDULED: <2022-05-23 Mon 13:00-14:00>

* do that thing
SCHEDULED: <2022-05-24 Mon 17:30-18:00>

* Flight to Victoria
SCHEDULED: <2022-05-31 Tue 09:15-14:20>

Install and Usage

This assumes you have python, venv, and pip (or something like venv and pip).

Get the code

git clone etc.

Initial install

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
.venv/bin/pip3 install -r requirements.txt
deactivate

Config

Copy config.ini.example to config.ini, and fill in your values.

Usage

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python main.py
deactivate

or ...

./update-schedule.sh

Cron job

Cron job

For example, sync things every hour.

* */1 * * * pushd /path/to/this/dir && ./update-schedule.sh && popd >> /tmp/cron.out 2>&1

Dev notes

There are just a few tests:

python3 -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
python -m unittest discover -s test
deactivate