Find a way to export LWN calendar to ics

[ThangaAyyanar]

https://lwn.net/Calendar/

This is the LWN.net community event calendar, where we track events of interest to people using and developing Linux and free software. Clicking on individual events will take you to the appropriate web page.

Extract the calendar events and export as ics format so it can be imported into local calendar.

[HariharanUmapathi]

Like the post you are asking to export the event informatons into ics file @ThangaAyyanar

https://medium.com/simform-engineering/effortless-event-management-with-ics-files-sync-code-and-schedule-b5c62d08d6b5

[ThangaAyyanar]

Yes @HariharanUmapathi

Once it is exported we can import into googke calendar or our local calendar.

[HariharanUmapathi]

APIs - not available
rss feeds - only posts not having information about these events
web scrapping - able to get urls but no other information like start date end date is mappable with the event url
I have shared gist to extract the event urls from the LWN Calendar https://gist.github.com/HariharanUmapathi/91f1d5d5ffd37ba73d777e70eb099a9e

[ThangaAyyanar]

Awesome work @HariharanUmapathi. I will look into scraping the timeline information from the calendar.

[tshrinivasan]

The source website dont have much data in good format.

Explore these sites too.

https://foss.events/

https://foss.lawrencehallofscience.org/foss-event-calendar/

https://fossforce.com/events-calendar/

https://fossunited.org/events/timeline

[HariharanUmapathi]

Phase 1

https://foss.events/ site data generated as a ics file its compatable to open in thunderbird client
some cleanup works needed in code base
kindly checkit out https://github.com/HariharanUmapathi/foss-event-aggregator and create issues if any suggessions

edit 1 : 13-09-2024 foss.events has ics files for each events 😁

[HariharanUmapathi]

Phase 2

https://fossforce.com/events calendar has a rss feed section for events data but it is not having the start date and end date event title and short concise description it has blog like content it canbe added in rss reader 😢