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Is there a way to programmatically import ICS into Google Calendar?

I don't see any obvious way to import ICS files into Google Calendar from the API docs here: http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/developers_guide_protocol.html And I'd greatly prefer not to have to parse them myself just to send the appointments into GCal. I'm looking for a programmatic solution, not something like import plugins for...

HTML viewer for ics (iCal) files

I'm creating a small app in ASP.NET MVC that generates ics (iCal) files based on certain criterias. The generated files are accessible through a permanent URL (http://myserver/some/criterias.ics). I am looking for a way to display the calendar data on the page to give the user a preview of the generated file. Ideally, I'd like a Google ...

Redialing a PPPOE connection programatically

I have a PPPOE connection on a computer . That computer has two LAN cards and I activated ICS on it . The problem is , the connection kinda degrades over time ( don't know why ) , and a redial would be nice , hourly maybe . I was thinking of writing an AutoIT script that would do this , if , for example I'm sending some data to a port th...

Delphi 7 & ICS sending DELETE requests

How can I send a DELETE request with delphi 7 and the ICS component so that I can access a REST api? ...

parser for ics files in .net

I'm trying to figure out the best way take a ics file and convert it into a format I can put into a database. Can anyone recommend how to do this? ...

How to send email through GMail using ICS?

How can I send email through gmail smtp account using ICS component? ...

icalender reader for python

I'm looking to automate the status reports that I have to send to my manager. Since I use a todo software that writes to icalendar format, I would like be able to format an email out of the ics file. I'm starting my work with : http://codespeak.net/icalendar/ which looks pretty good, but it does have some rough edges. What icalender re...

What's the best iCalendar (ics, ical) library in Ruby?

I'm looking for a good library to output iCalendar formatted files. Good time zone support, or (better yet) UTC-only dates is a requirement. ...

PHP script: download ics file

Hello, I'm setting up a feature for "exporting as ics file" (iCal) our weekly school agenda. The download prompt works but when opening it in iCal (Mac OS X), iCal tells me the calendar is invalid. I opened the file in a text editor and it looks ok to me. I suspect my download.php script is wrong or setting the wrong mimetype. I trie...

How do I create an iCal-type .ics file that can be downloaded by other users?

I want to create an iCal Calendar that can be downloaded from my website to the users Calendar program or imported to Google Calendar. What I want to know is if I do a direct Export from iCal on Mac OS X is that the file that I upload to my server? Any catches or caveats I should be aware of? Or is there a better way? ...

Should a colon character be escaped in TEXT values in iCalendar (rfc2445)?

My understanding from reading the specification (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2445.txt) is that the ":" character should not be escaped in text values like DESCRIPTION. From the RFC: The "TEXT" property values may also contain special characters that are used to signify delimiters, such as a COMMA character for lists of va...

Single day all day appointments in .ics files

I'm creating an ics file using ASP.NET for importing holiday into Outlook 2007 and trying to set the all-day-event flag. This works fine on multi-day holidays, but for single days, it doesn't seem to be registering, I just get a 'singularity holiday' booked from midnight to midnight. According to MSDN, setting the start and end times to...

ICS replace events

We have developed a calendar for our extranet. Each week we update it with next week's courses schedule for all teachers and students of the school. This also triggers the sending per email of ICS files to those users who chose that option. Now, it almost always happens that there are last minute changes, so a need to do a new schedule ...

Grouping multiple events in a single ics file (icalendar stream)

Hi, I want to group multiple events in a single ics file (icalendar stream) according to the RFC this can be done. but o have no idea how , anyone can help me , give me an example ? Thanks Here is what rfc says: However, multiple iCalendar objects can be sequentially grouped together in an iCalendar stream. The first line and las...

Google Calendar .ics import Standards

I have a .ics file that I generate from our database that works correctly in iCal, but is flaky in Google Calendar. Sometimes Google Calendar will import the file, but it does not pick up all the events. Does anyone have any tips on the REQUIRED fields that Google needs? I am at a loss here as to why sometimes it won't import, or why ...

ics file mime type

I'm trying to upload an ics file to my site. It was exported from iCal on Mac OSX. I thought that ics files had a mime type of text/calendar, but for some reason this file seems to be of type Application/octet-stream. This makes the upload fail my verification tests. Anyone have any ideas why the type isn't what I expect?! ...

Delphi: problem with httpcli (ICS) post method

Hello I am using HttpCli component form ICS to POST a request. I use an example that comes with the component. It says: procedure TForm4.Button2Click(Sender: TObject); var Data : String; begin Data:='status=no'; HttpCli1.SendStream := TMemoryStream.Create; HttpCli1.SendStream.Write(Data[1], Length(Data)); HttpCli1.S...

Managing timezone in php with ics date/time format

Ok, I'm using an ICS parser utility to parse google calendar ICS files. It works great, except google is feeding me the times of the events at UCT.. so I need to subtract 5 hours now, and 6 hours when daylight savings happens. To get the start time I'm using: $timestart = date("g:iA",strtotime(substr($event['DTSTART'], 9, -3))); //$eve...

Consuming an iCal/.ics file in YQL

How would one consume an iCal/.ics file in YQL? Given an .ics such as: http://www.hebcal.com/export/ba/8a35a5efbb27548bc0272b94b8de96.ics?subscribe=1&v=1&year=2010&month=x&nh=on&tag=fp.ql&c=off How would I go about using YQL to select certain events based on fields, etc. I've tried the standard formats, and th...

Creating .ics file from code sometimes gives "The file <filename>[<index>].ics" is not a valid internet Calendar file

Hi! I am building an ASP site where I use response.write to create an ics file where a user can choose open or save dialog for the event. When the user chooses open, Outlook sometimes gives the error "The file [].ics" is not a valid internet Calendar file". It is always the same event that is written to the response. The code looks like ...