ical source feeds

Hi Tung Pham,

I’m looking at feeding calendar events (through download.ics file format) into posts.. I’m look for ways to feed events (calendar) based feeds into a posts.

RSS feeds are more simple to calendar feeds so I guess I’m just wondering if it was something that you might agree could be added as a source?

Thanks… I can point to examples that I’m imediately interested in from time.ly’s all-in-one-event-calendar.

there are different types this is the basic type..

http://time.ly/?plugin=all-in-one-event-calendar&controller=ai1ec_exporter_controller&action=export_events&no_html=true

or their own which is better..
http://time.ly/?plugin=all-in-one-event-calendar&controller=ai1ec_exporter_controller&action=export_events

you can look at the other types from their demo (http://time.ly/calendar/) and the subscribe options..

Hi Tung..

Well that doesn’t help does it..

ok to help I’ve created a demo site with some events of different types.

http://justinandco.com/demo/

and there will be three separate types of events in the calendar feed.

• regular repeating event
• one time event
• and 3rd a custom style repeating event.

so it will be interesting to see if these can be handled by wp-pipes.

the feed url can be copied from the demo site calendar .. however one link is here for the ical version which includes the images.

http://justinandco.com/demo/?plugin=all-in-one-event-calendar&controller=ai1ec_exporter_controller&action=export_events

That is a quick turn round for a new add-on ! it should help the all-in-one-events-calendar users if they want a set of posts for all events in the calendar.

I’ve been trialling the basic wp-pipe to get a handle on rss feeds in and how it would work in my case. What I’m seeing is …if the ical or RSS feed input coming in creates a set of posts (say the events for today) and then tomorrow re-imports from the pipe it is appending and not removing yesterday’s posts before creating today’s. I see no way of removing yesterday’s posts this since pipe appends rather than performing a delete/add-new.

also there are no hooks to fire some custom code before a pipe runs. is this something that you would consider adding in? something like ..

do_action( 'before_running_pipe');

?