calfilter¶ ↑

• opensource.thinkrelevance.com/wiki/calfilter

calfilter is a small library to assist in writing filtering programs for icalendar files or streams. It can be used for various purposes, including:

• removing items from icalendar feeds that are not interesting to you

• removing private information from your own calendar before publishing it to others

• reformatting a provided calendar to highlight particular information

A calfilter script does most of its work using the filter_calendars method.

• require ‘calfilter/tripit’ to add some methods specific to tripit.com calendar feeds.

• require ‘calfilter/cgi’ to automatically turn your filter into a CGI script. The CGI object is available as CalFilter::CGI.

require 'calfilter'

cals = filter_calendars('some_url') do |cal|
    cal.keep(:events)  # not journals, todos, or freebusys

    cal.filter_events do |evt|
        # Remove events I've marked private
        evt.remove if evt.description =~ /PRIVATE/
        # Don't reveal phone numbers of my contacts
        evt.description.sub! /\d{3}-\d{4}/, '###-####'
    end
end

calfilter depends on the icalendar gem.

sudo gem install calfilter

Glenn Vanderburg <glenn@thinkrelevance.com>

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