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This is probably because this event starts at 5:30pm so is considered an afternoon event, checker should perhaps check start & end times.

It would be good to send out the request for cover earlier in the week, say on Wednesday, to give people more time to plan.

The cover requester needs updating to append the date that the week begins in the filename it saves the URL to and then the cover checker needs to be changed to use this (probably just reading the config and then this file rather than assuming it'll be an argument).

DoES generally isn't open on Bank Holidays so it would be good to attempt to ignore them. At least investigate whether it's possible. Check for an event with title "Bank Holiday" and ignore that day, unless there's any other events.

Some docs are here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131007053304/http://www.doodle.com/xsd1/RESTfulDoodle.pdf

Would require using the same OAuth keys as the cover requester and then parsing the resultant XML rather than JSON.

The cover checker currently results in an email if there's no cover, but it would be useful if it also reminded whoever was down to cover.

The "nextweek" option of cover checker checks for cover on the Monday of the following week, if possible it would be better if it checks on the "first active day" of the next week. So if the Monday is a bank holiday and #5 has been completed, it will check the Tuesday instead.

Would be good to handle bank holidays either by ignoring the day completely or, because there's a chance we might have an event on, automatically covering it with a "Bank Holiday" person.

http://support.doodle.com/customer/en/portal/articles/664212-doodle-wizard-api