ics2owncloud.py

This script downloads iCal files and imports them to ownCloud using CalDAV.

Pull requests welcome!

Important note

The calendar app supports calendar subscriptions for some time now. However these calendars can't be sync'd to your devices. If you need this you can still use this script to import events to "normal" calendars that are available for sync'ing.

Requirements

• Virtualenv
• icalendar for Python
• Requests

Just make sure the virtualenv command is in $PATH when running ics2owncloud.sh. icalendar and Requests are installed automatically.

Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/buzz/ics2owncloud.py.git

Configuration

Configuration file

Create and edit config file:

cp ics2owncloud.ini.example ~/.ics2owncloud.ini

A config file with two entries looks like this:

[DEFAULT]
username: tom
password: 123456
server: https://cloud.example.com/

[import_a]
calendar: calendar_xy
ics_url: https://USER1:XXX@cloud.owncloud.org/index.php/apps/calendar/export.php?calid=6

[import_b]
calendar: facebook
ics_url: https://www.facebook.com/ical/u.php?uid=10000123456789&key=ABCDEFGHIJKL

• username - ownCloud user
• password - ownCloud password
• server - ownCloud server URL
• calender - ownCloud calendar name
• ics_url - URL to the ICS file to download (can have username:password format)

Don't forget to protect your config file:

$ chmod 600 ~/.ics2owncloud.ini

Cron job

A cron job comes in handy to periodically import calendars:

$ crontab -e

This runs the script every 30 minutes:

*/30 * * * * /PATH/TO/ics2owncloud.sh >/dev/null