ics_to_javascript.py

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import datetime, time
from collections import defaultdict
import urllib2

talk_abstracts_url = 'http://www.europython.eu/talks/talk_abstracts/index.html'

events = []
# event = {
# 'uri':'uri'
# "title",
# "abstract"
# "start": 123678,
# "room",
# "difficulty":
# "speaker_name":
# "technology":
# "track":
# }

def scrape_timetable():
    return file('timetable.ics').readlines()

def convert_ics_to_json():
    event = {}
    ignore = False
    talk_abstracts_soup = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(talk_abstracts_url).read())
    for line in scrape_timetable():
        line = line.strip()
        if line.startswith('END:VTIMEZONE'):
            ignore = False
        if line.startswith('BEGIN:VTIMEZONE'):
            ignore = True
        if ignore:
            continue
        if line.startswith('BEGIN:VEVENT'):
            event = defaultdict(unicode)
        if line.startswith('LOCATION'):
            event['room'] = line.split(':')[1].decode("utf-8")
        if line.startswith('UID'):
            event['id'] = "session_"+line.split(':')[1].split('@')[0].decode("utf-8")
        if line.startswith('SUMMARY'):
            details = line.split(':')
            if len(details) > 2:
                event['title'] = details[2].strip().decode("utf-8")
                event['speaker'] = details[1].strip().decode("utf-8")
            else:
                event['title'] = details[1].strip().decode("utf-8")
        if line.startswith('DTSTART'):
            stim = line.split(':')[1]
            tim = datetime.datetime.strptime(stim, "%Y%m%dT%H%M%S")
            event['start'] = long(time.mktime(tim.utctimetuple()) * 1000)
        event['abstract'] = ''
        if 'title' in event:
            m = talk_abstracts_soup.find(text=event['title'])
            if m:
                event['abstract'] = unicode(m.parent.parent.nextSibling).replace('"', '\\"').replace('\n', '')
        if line.startswith('END:VEVENT'):
            events.append(event)
    return events

def main():
    print "(function() {var s= [];"
    for event in convert_ics_to_json():
        print 's.push(new Session({id:"%(id)s", title:"%(title)s", speaker:"%(speaker)s", start:new Date(%(start)s), room:"%(room)s", difficulty:"N/A", technology:"Awesome", track:"Ruby", abstract:"%(abstract)s"}));' % event
    print "window.sessions = s; })();"
if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()