Have you wished to have the RailsConf schedule in your own calendar app? Well, now you can! Subscribe to the
https://railsconf.garytou.com/calendar.ics ICS link in your favorite
calendar app such as Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, etc.
This node.js app (really should be Rails 🙄) web scrapes† the RailsConf schedule from their website and formats it as
an iCal (ics) file!
/calendar.ics |
iCal (ics) file of events (for subscription in calendar apps) |
|---|---|
/events |
JSON endpoint of events |
git clone https://github.com/garyhtou/railsconf-2022-schedule
# enter the directory
cd railsconf-2022-schedule
# install dependencies
yarn
# run the server
yarn dev
# Open https://localhost:3000 in your browser
# the server will refresh on any saved changes†: Now that the conference has concluded, the endpoints respond with a cached
version of the ICS calendar and JSON data. These versions were cached on Monday,
June 13th, 2022 at 1:00 AM, Pacific Time and are located in the
/public directory.
The existing web scraping code is still functional at the time of writing this, but will more than likely break when RailsConf updates its website!