Event Syncer

Introduction

Sync events among google calendar, facebook post/events and other cloud tools for managing events notification in Taiwan Linux Kernel Hackers group automatically.

Usage

1. Get facebook authendication key from graph API website https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/ Please remember to enable uesr_events, and user_managed_groups permission.

2. Follow the steps to get google calendar secret file https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/quickstart/python

3. Check configs in event_tools/config.py and check all the __TBD__ fields

4. Install required packages

   $ pip install --upgrade -r requirements.txt
   

5. Command to sync events is event_syncer, the usage is

   Usage: event_syncer [-h] [-s SOURCE]
   
   optional arguments:
     -h, --help            show this help message and exit
     -s SOURCE, --source SOURCE
                           source of events
   

Currently source 'facebook', the default value, is the only supported publisher.

Supported subscribers:

• google calendar

Internals

• The event_tools contains the utilities, i.e. event_utils.py.
• The subscribers must be derived from base class EventSubscriberBase.

License

2-clause BSD license

Viller Hsiao (villerhsiao@gmail.com)