import requests import json import icalendar import datetime import hashlib import time import sys OFFSET = -time.timezone events_url = "https://bitlair.nl/Special:Ask/-5B-5BCategory:Event-5D-5D-20-5B-5BStart::%E2%89%A519-20January-202023-5D-5D/-3FStart/-3FEnd/-3FEvent-20location/mainlabel%3D/limit%3D50/order%3DASC/sort%3DStart/prettyprint%3Dtrue/format%3Djson" # above URL asks for all events and returns their name, start, end and location events_page = requests.get(events_url) # remove first line from output because the first line is '' # which is not valid JSON, believe it or not events = json.loads(''.join(events_page.text.splitlines(keepends=True)[1:])) cal = icalendar.Calendar() # Some properties are required to be compliant cal.add('prodid', '-//Bitlair event calendar//bitlair.nl//') cal.add('version', '2.0') for key, value in events['results'].items(): # unix timestamps from semwiki are not in UTC but in $localtime start_time = int(value['printouts']['Start'][0]['timestamp']) - OFFSET end_time = int(value['printouts']['End'][0]['timestamp']) - OFFSET # remove preceding 'Events/YYYY-MM-DD ' from pagename to result in the actual event name eventname = key[18:] event = icalendar.Event() event.add('summary', eventname) event.add('description', f'{key}\n {value["fullurl"]}') event.add('dtstamp', datetime.datetime.now()) event.add('dtstart', datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(start_time)) event.add('dtend', datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(end_time)) event.add('url', value['fullurl']) event['location'] = icalendar.vText(value['printouts']['Event location'][0]['fulltext']) url_hash_substr = hashlib.md5(value["fullurl"].encode()).hexdigest()[0:10] # we need to use something that is relatively safe as a UID, so use the first 10 characters of the hexdigest of the wikiurl event['uid'] = f'{url_hash_substr}@bitlair.nl' # Add the event to the calendar cal.add_component(event) f = open(sys.argv[1], 'wb') f.write(cal.to_ical()) f.close()