Parse calendar events

Hi all,

I would like that Indigo tells/speaks my calendar event.
Use case: in the morning, while having breakfast, Indigo reads my events

I know that there is the iCal plugin but it seems that iCal/Calendar does not send anymore the emails (I read about this here).

My idea was to get all the calendar via AppleScript/Automator and then let Indigo (Python/Applescript) do the rest.
Surfing the web I found this http://icaldoit.sourceforge.net/ which is shipped with bunch of Automator workflows and Applescript to get events (with option/filtering).
I will give a try in the next days

Does anyone have another idea?

Cynical Calendar plugin: http://www.cynic.org/indigo/plugins/online/ical.html

Yes but it seems not working as API changed

iCalBuddy will parse the events from iCal with great flexibility and speed. I use it in my Applescripts and it made them much simpler !

Thanks
I will give it a look

How do you integrate it in Indigo?

In the morning it speaks the events of the day, and at midnight another scripts updates some variables like "vacation" for kids or "day off" so that the blinds and lights have different schedules...

Wel...who speaks?
Indigo or iCalbuddy? I saw that it can also speak.

Results of the "queries", as far as I understood, cannot be saved into XML/CVS and so on, how does Indigo read them?

Thanks

[jay (support)]

I know that there is the iCal plugin but it seems that iCal/Calendar does not send anymore the emails (I read about this here).

I just tested iCal on Yosemite with an email event - and it worked fine. Where did you read that it doesn't work?

I know that there is the iCal plugin but it seems that iCal/Calendar does not send anymore the emails (I read about this here).

I just tested iCal on Yosemite with an email event - and it worked fine. Where did you read that it doesn't work?

I think he's actually referring to the Cynical Calendar plugin, which doesn't seem to work anymore (possibly since Mavericks).

[jay (support)]

I think he's actually referring to the Cynical Calendar plugin, which doesn't seem to work anymore (possibly since Mavericks).

Possibly, but since he mentioned "not send anymore emails" I assumed it was the iCal Alarm Processor plugin since it works from alert emails (unlike the Cynical plugin, which directly uses the calendar store API).

I just tested iCal on Yosemite with an email event - and it worked fine. Where did you read that it doesn't work?

I mixed up things, maybe as far as I remember, there was a problem on Yosemite (or maybe Mavericks) that iCal was not sending e-mail anymore, am I wrong?

Wel...who speaks?
Indigo or iCalbuddy? I saw that it can also speak.

Results of the "queries", as far as I understood, cannot be saved into XML/CVS and so on, how does Indigo read them?

Thanks

Indigo speaks the results that are stored in a string, like in the AppleScript code below:

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set TheString to (do shell script "/usr/local/bin/icalbuddy -nc -ic Perso eventsToday")
say TheString


I guess you could integrate that string in an XML file too.

Ok, thanks, I will give definitely a try

[jay (support)]

I mixed up things, maybe as far as I remember, there was a problem on Yosemite (or maybe Mavericks) that iCal was not sending e-mail anymore, am I wrong?

As I stated above Yosemite is sending the emails fine for me. I can't speak to anything else but my own personal experience...