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Matthew
Matthew

Reputation: 865

Parse events from an .ics file in Python

Basically my goal is I want to be able to take an ics file as the input and be able to parse out a date's events and then from each event break down the information from it. I have been attempting to figure it out with http://pypi.python.org/pypi/icalendar

This is as far as I've gotten..

from icalendar import Calendar, Event
cal = Calendar.from_ical(open('Work.ics','rb').read())

for component in cal.walk():
    print component

Upvotes: 2

Views: 6242

Answers (2)

Auberon Vacher
Auberon Vacher

Reputation: 4785

depending what you mean by 'parse events dates': should you mean the ability to know all instances dates (RRULE, RDATE, EXDATE) you could also try pyICSParser a ics events enumerator, to list instances of events:

mycal = icalendar.ics()
mycal.local_load("work.ics")
dates = mycal.get_event_instances(start,end)
#dates will contain the json with all explicit dates of the events spec'ed by the iCalendar file

PS: disclaimer - I wrote/still writing this module and it so far only handles DATE not DATE-TIME properties values.

Upvotes: 3

Morten Larsen
Morten Larsen

Reputation: 503

Maybe try:

with Calendar.from_ical(open("work.ics")) as FileObj:
    for components in FileObj:
        print components

This should print every line in file (untested).

Upvotes: 0

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