Splitting a Facebook event calendar

Dugite-Code — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 16:00:00 GMT

My friends make liberal use of Facebook events, unfortunately I find the events interface impossible to navigate. Luckily they do have a .ics available, unluckily events you haven't accepted are mixed with events you have.

So I made a simple flow that splits accepted events from tentative events. This way I can subscribe to this .ics in my Nextcloud instance and give tentative events a different color. I find a calendar is much more usable.

I used the node-red-contrib-httpauth node. The main bit is contained in a function node, mainly because I couldn't figure out how to sanely do this with the split node.

Use is simple:

Update the http auth node with your preferred user:pasword
Add your facebook event calendar url to the http request node
subscribe to user:pasword@example.tld/nod-red/facebook/accepted or user:pasword@example.tld/nod-red/facebook/tentative

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