Looks like builds are failing and the documentation needs being updated for the added calendar fields.

I will get on this in the coming days and push a new version to PyPi. 🔜

Hi there! First of all: awesome library. I was wondering how to create ical files based on url params

like e.g. path("event_ical/<slug:slug>/", EventFeed(), name="event-feed",), in urls.py

how do you pass the slug param to the EventFeed()?

Hi,

Just wondered whether django-ical is known to work with Django 1.8? Thanks!

I'm not seeing it in the documentation - what would be required to include attendees and rsvp responses for each event? Before diving too deep, can anyone on the team provide any direction or recommendations?

Can you add ATTACH arg to ITEM_EVENT_FIELD_MAP, which exists in icalendar lib, please?

Hi,

a one-liner can get rid of this warning with Python 3.8 :

django_ical/tests/test_feed.py:142: SyntaxWarning: "is not" with a literal. Did you mean "!="?
  if key is not "email":

Apart from this warning, the tests run, so I guess things are ok.

https://bitbucket.org/IanLewis/django-ical/issues/2/push-14-to-pypi

Are there examples about how to use this code? I have a CalendarEvent model (not the built in Django events model, but a custom one I created). It consists of events that have a date, start, and end time, and show up on a custom calendar. Now, I'd like to export the data in this custom database of events to, say, a Google calendar, with an icalendar .ics feed. I cannot find examples of how to use your django-ical code online. Could you direct me to code examples? I'm not finding much help in the documentation.

In pull request responding to the #33, you added:
response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/calendar, text/x-vcalendar, application/hbs-vcs')

The correct syntax should be:
response = HttpResponse(content_type='text/calendar; text/x-vcalendar; application/hbs-vcs')

In the current situation, it does not work everywhere...

Until recently 1.9.2 was compiling perfectly in Debian ; but now there is a failing test:

ERROR: test_timezone (django_ical.tests.test_feed.ICal20FeedTest.test_timezone)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>/django_ical/tests/test_feed.py", line 490, in test_timezone
    self.assertEqual(calendar.subcomponents[1]["DTSTART"].params["TZID"], "EDT")
                     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/icalendar/caselessdict.py", line 40, in __getitem__
    return super().__getitem__(key.upper())
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
KeyError: 'TZID'

I suspect some test file changed and this test was using something that disappeared, but I haven't been able to track down precisely what happened where.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545

It would we great if we could support all fields noted in the current iCal specification.

Hi,

I miss the mime-type on the response header to allow desktop and mobile apps to use the calendar feed on the calendar application.

Header:

application/hbs-vcs, text/calendar, text/x-vcalendar

The documentation around these features is hardly adequate or helpful to users. Update it 🥇

Is this module still under development?

Or is it wiser to start from python icalendar?

I am getting this error while following a youtube Django tutorial and I know that this is not the plate for Django issues so I went to Django git-hub but there I can't open an issue so I came here for help. The error says that I am missing an argument for the main function that returns the HttpResponse in that I have included request but it says that I haven't. This error occurred while I was making the migrations for my project. Al I want is to get the link to view the server or web and fix this. Kindly help me, it will benefit me.. I am following Tech with Tim's youtube course for Django and React Js I also asked him thrice but there was no reply.

tox integration

travis.yml

Hello
mime_type = "text/calendar; charset=utf8"
should be replaced by:
mime_type = "text/calendar; charset=utf-8"

References:

• Google's ics implementation returns: content-type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8
• https://www.w3.org/International/articles/http-charset/index

Regards,

Original pull request sent into old Bitbucket repo by Michal Dabski but not merged. Copy those changes over to this repo.

https://bitbucket.org/mick88/django-ical/commits/all

If I create a ICalFeed without defining item_categories, the default value for this is not None but an empty tuple. See https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/feedgenerator.py#L76.

But django_ical feedgenerator does not care about this, see https://github.com/jazzband/django-ical/blob/master/django_ical/feedgenerator.py#L109.

Result: I get CATEGORIES:() in my output which is seen as an event with one category named () by the client (at least thunderbird tries to show a category flag).

So we may check not only for None but also for empty tuple.

Following instructions here: https://django-ics.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html
django 2.2

  File "/home/otcomm/otcomm/otcommproj/dallas/urls.py", line 15, in <module>
    url(r'^latest/feed.ics$', views.EventFeed(), name='event_feed'),
TypeError: EventFeed() missing 1 required positional argument: 'ICalFeed'

The icalendar library, that django-ical relies on, supports not just events but also other types of calendar contents, such as "VTODO" elements (as the Todo class, sadly not very extensively documented). Those correspond to tasks to be completed by a certain deadline, as defined by the Tasks extension of the iCalendar specification.

It seems to me that django-ical does not currently support exposing such tasks in the ical feeds it generates.
Would this functionality be in scope of this library?

For instance, I could imagine using a new method on the feed class to determine whether an entry should be translated as an Event or as a Todo:

class EventFeed(ICalFeed):

    def item_type(self, item):
        return "todo"

Or simply using a class attribute (if calendars should not be able to contain mixes of events and tasks). Other methods would be added to support the fields that are specific to tasks.

Since updating to the latest version, CATEGORIES shows up in my feed twice.
It is listed twice in ITEM_ELEMENT_FIELD_MAP on line 63 and line 77 which might be the cause of the problem.

What is needed to make this code compatible with Python 3?

I haven't looked at the source too closely but caniusepython3 reports no blocking dependencies.

Hi @pinkerton, I see you've modified django-ical to look like it's part of Jazzband but you haven't actually made the transfer of the repo to the Jazzband organization.

Could you please let me know what the status about that is?

How do I go about creating a private calendar? (in terms of security best practises)

Can I somehow add a token/bearer?
Is that intended to be a query parameter in the url?
I did not find it in the documentation.
Is there an example code/snippet floating around somewhere?

I would appreciate a little guidance. :)

We're working in a Microsoft environment and it appears that we cannot set a refresh on a feed for Outlook clients without setting the X-PUBLISHED-TTL property.

Are we correct in this conclusion? If so, has support for setting this property been considered (or would it be considered as PR)?

Thanks.

• Django 3.2.4
• Python 3.9

How to reproduce:

Run the example:

from django_ical import feedgenerator
feed = feedgenerator.ICal20Feed(
    title="My Events",
    link="http://www.example.com/events.ical",
    description="A iCalendar feed of my events.",
    language="en",
)
feed.add_item(
    title="Hello",
    link="http://www.example.com/test/",
    description="Testing.",
    start_datetime=datetime(2012, 5, 6, 10, 00),
    end_datetime=datetime(2012, 5, 6, 12, 00),
)
fp = open('test.ical', 'w')
feed.write(fp, 'utf-8')
fp.close()

Output:

>>> feed.write(fp, 'utf-8')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
  File "some-path/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/django_ical/feedgenerator.py", line 100, in write
    outfile.write(to_ical())
TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes

Hello all!

For my project, I need to specify alarms/notifications for an .ical file I'm building. But there are no hooks or method I can return the Alarm object like I can return Items/Events. Am I missing something, how can I get around this. Are you planning to add a VALARM option in the future?

Best regards