It would be great if the schedule had a subscribable calendar feature
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Would something like a RSS feed be sufficient?
edit: We’re looking into options. In the meantime there’s an API for those that want to either help out or develop something on their own
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Have you got a link to the API?
An RSS feed is more for news headlines than a calendar, although there are resources available to convert the feed.
Preferably you’d want a iCalendar feed, best example I have is my F1 feed from F1 Fanatic, specifically (hendnaic1pa2r3oj8b87m08afg @ group.calendar.google.com)
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Indeed we do have an API. If you want it I’ll send it in a PM 
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That’d be great 
I suppose I’ll need to dust off my developer hat…
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You should have it in your inbox now!
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OK this bit me pretty hard: I don’t watch JP normally (I’m asleep when he starts) and I don’t always keep up on the twitters. I’ve relied entirely on the calendar link in my calendar to keep up with what’s happening. I guess that’s no longer working, because I completely missed last night’s one shot 
So I am a dev. If you’re willing to host code contributions from other people, I’m happy to look into converting your API into an ical file. The format is a bit of a pita, but I’ve dealt with it before a little. Let me know if you want help (or if @CorvinusLucian is already on the case) , what languages you’re willing to host etc. I can PM you my GitHub etc.
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Sorry about you missing the one shot
You should have a PM with the API in a few seconds!
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into converting your API into an ical file
There are plenty of libraries out there that do the job for you, depending on which language you use. I use PHP and this: https://packagist.org/packages/eluceo/ical
If you want to convert the events to rss, this suites my needs: https://packagist.org/packages/suin/php-rss-writer
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Can I get a key? I have some free time this week and would like to give a shot at making a countdown thingy!
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Hey all,
So I knocked something up that creates an ics calendar. You can use it here: https://itmejp-calendar.herokuapp.com
Some notes:
- You use it by either clicking the link to download the file, or adding the URL to your calendar software to have it polled and kept up to date. e.g. https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/37100?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en
- It is currently on the free heroku tier, so if it’s asleep it will take ~30 seconds to boot before you get handed the ics file. Be patient
- It is most definitely in beta.
- To that point, it’s not getting polled by Google as much as I’d like, which I think is cache header related. I’m going to look at it soon, when I find the time
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Any new progress or solutions, official or unofficial?
Still working on getting this official in someway!
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I made a small php app that converts future events to an rss or ical file, intented to be run from a cron job / scheduled task. For those interested it’s on github: https://github.com/crowly0/ItmeJP
@crowly_ and @JustTeaThankYou
We have a Bitbucket open now. I have no idea what that means but I’ll get any of you invited if it’s possible to make it an official thing in some way.
Bitbucket is the same thing as Github from what I can see.
Can you update the README with a setup instructions for the uninitiated in the php world.
In bitbucket you can have private repos without paying. Everything else is better on github.
Depending on what you mean by “uninitiated”, I presume those that want to use this have some coding knowledge, but I have added some notes about installing composer and the command to download the required packages and create the autoloader, so those unfamiliar with composer can get this running.
It’s a lot better now.
Have some years of coding under my belt, but never touched php. I’m too scared of it. So I’m sticking with C++.
Fix a few bugs, and updated the ical so start and end times are converted to your local or specified time zone just like the rss.