Congress Self Organized Session to iOS Calendar

Creates a calendar event from the content of the info page of a self organized session at the CCC

At the moment, the Self Organized Sessions cannot be viewed directly in the Fahrplan app, as in: those cannot be bookmarked in any useful way. So this project came to be to help (at least iOS users) getting those into the own calendar.

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How to use it

1. Open the info page of a self organized session in Safari
2. Open the share menu and tap the Shortcut name
3. The Calendar app opens and shows you the newly created event

How to install it

• Via iCloud
• Via RoutineHub
• by downloading the the binary Shortcut file from Apple
  1. Go to the JSON-description page of the shortcut
  2. Find the key "fields.shortcut.value.downloadURL" and download that URL
• by compiling the source Shortcut file yourself and installing it manually
  • there is the XML source: C3 SoS to Calendar.xml
  • there is the JSON source: C3 SoS to Calendar.json

How the JSON and XML sources were generated

I used this gist for background info

1. Download the download URL
2. plutil -convert xml1 -e 'C3 SoS to Calendar.xml' -- 'C3 SoS to Calendar.plist'
3. plutil -convert json -e 'C3 SoS to Calendar.json' -- 'C3 SoS to Calendar.plist'

You just came here to get the extraction logic to build your own helper?

• If you found this because you want to fix the software of the hub: add an ics Button to download an ICS file for the event. Also a JSON-LD document in the page source would be nice.
• If you found this because you want to fix the software of the Fahrplan: detect SOS pages as part of the schedule and allow bookmarking for those.

This is what you are looking for:

// get starting time
var timeStartStr = document.querySelector(".hub-event-details__time").childNodes[0].nodeValue.trim();

// get ending time
var timeEndStr = document.querySelector(".hub-event-details__time").childNodes[4].nodeValue.trim();

// get day number
var dayStr = document.querySelector(".hub-event-details__day").textContent;
var day = parseInt(dayStr.replace(/^(Day|Tag) /i, ""));

// determine current year
var currentYear = parseInt(document.location.pathname.replace(/^\/congress\/([0-9]{4})\//i,"$1"));

// build date from day 0 + event day
var dateStart = new Date(`${currentYear}-12-26T00:00:00.000+01:00`);
dateStart.setDate(dateStart.getDate() + day);
var dateEnd = new Date(dateStart);

// change times of start date to actual starting time
var timeStartSplit = timeStartStr.split(":");
dateStart.setHours(timeStartSplit[0]);
dateStart.setMinutes(timeStartSplit[1]);

// change times of end date to actual ending time
var timeEndSplit = timeEndStr.split(":");
dateEnd.setHours(timeEndSplit[0]);
dateEnd.setMinutes(timeEndSplit[1]);

// get event title
var title = document.querySelector(".hub-head-main").textContent.trim();

// get event location
var location = document.querySelector("main.container.hub-content > article > div.hub-vlayout > div.hub-row.hub-card > div.hub-vlayout-l > div > h2.hub-section-title + div.hub-text").textContent.trim();

// get event description
var description = document.querySelector("main.container.hub-content > article > div.hub-vlayout > div.hub-row.hub-card > div.hub-vlayout-l > div.hub-text > section.hub-markdown").textContent.trim();

// return data to shortcut
completion({
    "title": title,
    "location": location,
    "start": dateStart.toUTCString(),
    "end": dateEnd.toUTCString(),
    "url": document.location.href,
    "notes": description
});

Authors

• Max Fuxjäger - Initial work - MaxValue

See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.

Project History

I was asked just before 38C3 to create a macro or similar to add SOS to the calendar. At that time I thought it had to be made with ics files and got lost. Some time after 38C3 i needed something to procrastinate with so I finally implemented this Shortcut.