ical2org.py

ical2org.py

[aitor]

Hi,

I've implemented a little script which converts ics files to
org-mode. You can find the script here:

https://github.com/asoroa/ical2org.py

It is equivalent to the awk script from Eric S. Fraga located here:

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html

It's main differences being:

- it only converts the events which fall into a timeframe (by default 3
  months before and after the current day)

- it handles recurrent events of 'dayly', 'weekly' and 'yearly' types.

- it also deals correctly with timezones etc.


best,
                        aitor

Re: ical2org.py

[Bastien]

aitor <aitors2005@gmail.org> writes:

> I've implemented a little script which converts ics files to
> org-mode. You can find the script here:
>
> https://github.com/asoroa/ical2org.py

Great -- would be nice to add this to Worg!

-- 
 Bastien

Re: ical2org.py

[Simon Thum]

On 05/14/2013 10:37 AM, Bastien wrote:
> aitor <aitors2005@gmail.org> writes:
>
>> I've implemented a little script which converts ics files to
>> org-mode. You can find the script here:
>>
>> https://github.com/asoroa/ical2org.py
>
> Great -- would be nice to add this to Worg!

Yes, more or less.

We now have (if I did not miscount someting) 3 python, 2 elisp and one 
ruby implementation of ical2org. I did not even look for those named in 
less obvious ways, although I know there is at least one.

It's going to be confusing if we add them all.

Cheers,

Simon

Re: ical2org.py

[Bastien]

Hi Simon,

Simon Thum <simon.thum@gmx.de> writes:

> It's going to be confusing if we add them all.

On the contrary -- I think collecting all the information about
various solutions in the same place is the only way to encourage
comparisons, which is the best way to let one solution emerge,
if needed.

2 cts of course,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: ical2org.py

[aitor]

Hi,

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:56:02AM +0200, Bastien wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> Simon Thum <simon.thum@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > It's going to be confusing if we add them all.
> 
> On the contrary -- I think collecting all the information about
> various solutions in the same place is the only way to encourage
> comparisons, which is the best way to let one solution emerge,
> if needed.

indeed. Should I've known there were already so many implementations of
ical2org I wouldn't have created mine! Silly thing is, it never ocurred
to me to just search "ical2org" on google.


best,
                                aitor

Re: ical2org.py

[Simon Thum]

On 05/15/2013 10:01 AM, aitor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:56:02AM +0200, Bastien wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> Simon Thum <simon.thum@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> It's going to be confusing if we add them all.
>>
>> On the contrary -- I think collecting all the information about
>> various solutions in the same place is the only way to encourage
>> comparisons, which is the best way to let one solution emerge,
>> if needed.
>
> indeed. Should I've known there were already so many implementations of
> ical2org I wouldn't have created mine! Silly thing is, it never ocurred
> to me to just search "ical2org" on google.
Similar here, I just checked Worg. However I had some special wishes 
unlikely to be covered, so I was prepared to hack anyway.

I recall to have lost my worg pushability, Bastien can you check? I 
would reorganize this a bit to make it clearer, and do not want to push 
something just to know.

@aitor if you have some info how your impl compares let the list know.

Cheers,

Simon

Re: ical2org.py

[Bastien]

Simon Thum <simon.thum@gmx.de> writes:

> I recall to have lost my worg pushability, Bastien can you check?

Please send me your public key in private.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien

Re: ical2org.py

[Eric S Fraga]

aitor <aitors2005@gmail.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I've implemented a little script which converts ics files to
> org-mode. You can find the script here:
>
> https://github.com/asoroa/ical2org.py

Aitor,

I would like to try this out but, as I am not a python user, I have no
idea how to get the two bits you indicate being necessary (icalendar,
pytz) installed.  I have installed python-dateutil and python-pycalendar
as these looked the most obvious candidates for icalendar but no
luck.  Searching the repositories for pytz draws a blank as well.

,----
| $ ~/git/ical2org.py/ical2org.py 
| Traceback (most recent call last):
|   File "/home/ucecesf/git/ical2org.py/ical2org.py", line 5, in <module>
|     from icalendar import Calendar
| ImportError: No module named icalendar
| $ 
`----

I am using Ubuntu.

Anyway help would be most welcome.

thanks,
eric
-- 
: Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D
: in Emacs 24.3.50.1 and Org release_8.0.2-94-g5a1400

Re: ical2org.py

[François Pinard]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> I am not a python user [...]

Hi, Eric.  Nobody is perfect :-).  Regards, François

Re: ical2org.py

[Guido Van Hoecke]

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> aitor <aitors2005@gmail.org> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've implemented a little script which converts ics files to
>> org-mode. You can find the script here:
>>
>> https://github.com/asoroa/ical2org.py
>
> Aitor,
>
> I would like to try this out but, as I am not a python user, I have no
> idea how to get the two bits you indicate being necessary (icalendar,
> pytz) installed.  I have installed python-dateutil and python-pycalendar
> as these looked the most obvious candidates for icalendar but no
> luck.  Searching the repositories for pytz draws a blank as well.

I got iCalendar from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/icalendar, untarred it
and ran `sudo python setup.py install'

Got pytz from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/. It comes as an egg
file so you just run `sudo easy-install pytz-2013b-py2.7.egg'

This command should get you going:
`./ical2org.py input.ics > output.org

Hope this helps,


Guido

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Re: ical2org.py

[aitor]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 03:10:51PM +0200, Guido Van Hoecke wrote:
>
> I got iCalendar from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/icalendar, untarred it
> and ran `sudo python setup.py install'
> 
> Got pytz from https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/. It comes as an egg
> file so you just run `sudo easy-install pytz-2013b-py2.7.egg'
> 
> This command should get you going:
> `./ical2org.py input.ics > output.org

Hi Guido,

thanks for the help! If the script gets enough interest I can sort out
an easy installation method for it.

best,
                                aitor