[Remind-Fans] From remind to Google calendar

[Monty Zukowski]

This script doesn't handle all day events.  It doesn't create
recurring vevents either, just one event per line of output of remind
-s.  It works for me though.

First I tried iCalendar.py, but that didn't seem to do timezones
automatically.  Then I tried vObject.py.  That handles timezones, but
the standard python example timezones weren't up to date for
US/Pacific.  I noticed in vObject the program to_pst.py.  It used
PyICU.  That depended on ibm's ICU library.  The debian package is
libicu36-dev, which I installed.  Then PyICU's binaries wouldn't link
to that, so I built it from source instead.  With that in place, I
finally seem to have timezone support working properly.

http://www.thescoop.org/archives/2007/07/31/django-ical-and-vobject/
helped me out a bit in figuring out some of the vevent details.

More information on IBM's ICU at http://www.icu-project.org/

import vobject, datetime
import subprocess, string
import PyICU

class Event:
    def __init__(self, date, time, duration, msg):
        self.date=date
        self.time=time
        self.duration=duration
        self.msg=msg
        self.dtstart=datetime.datetime.strptime(date+" " +time,
"%Y/%m/%d %I:%M%p")
        self.dtend = self.dtstart + datetime.timedelta(minutes=int(duration))
def events():
    output = subprocess.Popen(["remind", "-s",
"/home/monty/.reminders"], stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
    events = []
    for line in string.split(output, '\n'):
        if string.strip(line):
            msg= string.split(line, 'MSG')[1]
            body = string.split(line, 'repeat')[0]
            t=string.split(body)
            date = t[0]
            time = t[5]
            duration = t[3]
            events.append(Event( date, time, duration, msg))
    return events

pst = PyICU.ICUtzinfo.getInstance('US/Pacific')


cal = vobject.iCalendar()
cal.add('prodid').value='-//Remind2ical//codetransform.com//'
cal.add('version').value='2.0'
cal.add('method').value='PUBLISH'

events = events()

for e in events:
  ev1 = cal.add('vevent')
  ev1.add('dtstart').value = e.dtstart
  ev1.add('dtend').value = e.dtend
  ev1.add('dtstamp').value = datetime.datetime.now()
  ev1.add('summary').value = e.msg

f = open('monty.ics', 'w')
f.write( cal.serialize())
f.close()

I hereby place this code in the public domain.

Monty

On 9/17/07, Daniel Martins <danielemc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > It was a pain to install
> > vObject and PyICU and the IBM ICU libraries, all just to get proper
> > timezones, however now I can finally get my 'remind' work schedule
> > into Google calendar.
>
> Great!
>
>  Could you please send us the complete recipe to us?
>
> Daniel
>
> 2007/9/17, Monty Zukowski <monty at codetransform.com>:
> > Thanks for the quick response!
> >
> > I installed 03.01.02 and got that example to work.  I originally had
> > Dec 22 as the end date, but moved it to Sept just to see if it would
> > end in this month...
> >
> > I have made my own little remind2ical.py script since nothing I could
> > find out there handled timezones well.  It was a pain to install
> > vObject and PyICU and the IBM ICU libraries, all just to get proper
> > timezones, however now I can finally get my 'remind' work schedule
> > into Google calendar.
> >
> > Monty
> >
> > On 9/17/07, David F. Skoll <dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:
> > > Monty Zukowski wrote:
> > >
> > > > What I'm trying to say is I'm working 9-2 Mondays & Wednesdays between
> > > > Sept. 15 2007 and Sept 22 2007 (exclusive).
> > >
> > > That's just two days, so you could do it as two simple separate
> reminders.
> > >
> > > If you have the latest version of Remind:
> > >
> > > REM Mon Wed AT 9:00 DURATION 5:00 FROM 15 Sep 2007 UNTIL 22 Sep 2007 MSG
> ...
> > >
> > > You need at least 03.01.01 to get the "FROM..." clause.
> > >
> > > > REM Mon Wed AT 9:00 DURATION 5:00 repeat UNTIL 22 Sep SATISFY
> > > > [trigdate() >= '2007-09-15'] MSG Monty working
> > >
> > > "repeat" is not a Remind keyword, so it's as if you wrote:
> > >
> > > REM Mon Wed AT 9:00 DURATION 5:00 MSG repeat ...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > David.
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