Sri Lanka Holiday Calendar Feed

[pathumego]

This is a really small project, but will be really really useful.. a Public Google Calendar could be used I guess.

Or can this be on GitHub pages and serve the iCal (https://github.com/budparr/jekyll-calendar)

[pasindud]

Yea this should be interesting mini project

[pathumego]

i will do the input if someone can set up the site :)

[pasindud]

I'll setup the site
https://github.com/CodeLanka/sri-lanka-calendar

[dhammikamare]

I am maintaining a public calender of Sri Lanka holidays for my use. Hope we can use it. :)
XML: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/kr9fgv9anqi01er9aua1a8bd3s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic
ICAL: https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/kr9fgv9anqi01er9aua1a8bd3s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
HTML: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=kr9fgv9anqi01er9aua1a8bd3s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Asia/Colombo

Reference: Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs, Sri Lanka

[pasindud]

@dhammika-marasinghe can you make a small script that fetch data from that xml and writes to https://github.com/budparr/jekyll-calendar/blob/master/_data/events.yaml

[ishan-marikar]

This might be of interest to you: https://db.tt/5S4dVa54 .. I use it with my outlook.

[ishan-marikar]

I'll do a bit of research on the structure of ical files and then try my hand at coding a parser for it.

[ishan-marikar]

Well, instead of parsing it, I just converted it into a csv file and then converted that into JSON/XML.

[pasindud]

That works too, the JSON schema must be bit agile, can guys post a example JSON with one event and the metadata.

[ishan-marikar]

[
    {
         "title"  : "National Day",
         "description" : "Independence day of Sri Lanka",
         "start-date" : "2015-02-04",
         "end-date" : "2015-02-04",
         "type" : [
              "Mercantile",
              "Bank"
          ]
    }
] 

What about this?

EDIT: Included start/end data and type

[pasindud]

Start date end Date ( for incase )
Type - Mercantile || Bank (important)

I think this is ok for a base
👍

[pathumego]

Hi Guys!

I think rather than maintaining a Google calendar its better to have this
on GH with GH pages serving the website and the iCal feed, if possible.
That way anyone can fork the repo add a calendar days and send a PR. Or can
use issues.

And options to modify the feed to include the needed days would be awesome.

• Holidays Public
• Holidays Bank
• Holidays Merc.

Other educational and recreational calendars

• Important National Days / Weeks
• Important birthdays
• History

These can be important for apps and blogs.

[pasindud]

The only reason for Google Calendar is to allow non tech people to contribute too, and google kind dose the work of generating xml, json and Ical

[pasindud]

JSON google calendar https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/kr9fgv9anqi01er9aua1a8bd3s%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic?&alt=json

[pasindud]

CodeLanka/common-data-sri-lanka#6