schedule-to-ical

Python program to convert class schedule (Wolverine Access MHTML download) to an iCal file.

Why?

I'm too lazy to put my classes in my calendar.

How?

Python. Beautiful Soup for MHTML parsing, iCalendar for creating the iCal file.

Learning Goals

• Play with Beautiful Soup (it's awesome)
• Understand the iCal (.ics) file structure
• Figure out why Wolverine Access and Atlas BOTH don't have a built-in iCal export option (inconclusive).
• More practice programming in Emacs :)

Usage

Download an MHTML file from Wolverine Access.

Backpack/Registration > My Class Schedule > List View > Scroll to the bottom and click "Printer friendly page"
Open Browser Tools and click "Save Page As" > Choose "Webpage, Single File" format.

Save somewhere and specify path to file in command line argument.

Virtual Environment

$ python3 -m venv env
$ source env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Generate iCal File from MHTML

$ which python
/Users/melinaodell/src/personal/schedule-to-ical/env/bin/python
$ python3 src/main.py W23ClassSchedule.mht
Generated iCal file W23ClassSchedule.ics

Pitfalls

• icalendar doesn't allow recurrence for one event on multiple days of the week. Each weekday is a separate event.