python-hcalendar 0.1.2dev (beta)

python-hcalendar is a basic hCalendar parser

Dependencies

• isodate [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/isodate/]
• Beautiful Soup 4 [http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/]

Installation

Install all dependencies by using the following commands:

pip install isodate pip install BeautifulSoup4

Install the parser by cloning the source from github.com:

git clone git://github.com/mback2k/python-hcalendar.git hcalendar

Basic Example

The hCalendar class accepts file-like objects and strings, basically anything supported by BeautifulSoup

from hcalendar import hCalendar

html = """<div class="vcalendar"><div class="vevent">

<a class="url" href="http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/40/program.html">

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/40/program.html

System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 29)

Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

</a> <span class="summary">Web 2.0 Conference</span>: <abbr class="dtstart" title="2005-10-05">October 5</abbr>- <abbr class="dtend" title="2005-10-07">7</abbr>, at the <span class="location">Argent Hotel, San Francisco, CA</span>

System Message: WARNING/2 (<string>, line 34)

Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.

</div></div>"""

hcal = hCalendar(html) for cal in hcal:

System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 38)

Unexpected indentation.

for event in cal:

print event.url print event.summary print event.dtstart print event.dtend print event.location

HTML source code taken from [microformats.org](http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar). Output will look like this:

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/40/program.html Web 2.0 Conference 2005-10-05 00:00:00 2005-10-07 00:00:00 Argent Hotel, San Francisco, CA