Export iCal events to TXT or RTF #

icalBuddy "is a command-line utility that can be used to get lists of events and tasks/to-do's from the OS X calendar database (the same one iCal uses)."
Export event(s) as Rich Text: highlight desired event(s) in iCal > Cmd+C > open TextEdit > Cmd+V.

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Nigel Garvey crafted an AppleScript program that "gets date-range input from the user, narrows down the start dates and summaries to those in the range, sorts the results by start date, composes the text, and makes a TextEdit document containing it":
-- Ask the user for the range of dates to be covered. on getDateRange() set today to (current date) set d1 to today's short date string set d2 to short date string of (today + 6 * days) set dateRange to text returned of (display dialog "Enter the required date range:" default answer d1 & " - " & d2) set dateRangeStart to date (text from word 1 to word 3 of dateRange) set dateRangeEnd to date (text from word -3 to word -1 of dateRange) set dateRangeEnd's time to days - 1 -- Sets the last date's time to 23:59:59, the last second of the range. return {dateRangeStart, dateRangeEnd} end getDateRange -- Return the start dates and summaries which are in the given date range. on filterToDateRange(theStartDates, theSummaries, dateRangeStart, dateRangeEnd) set {eventDatesInRange, eventSummariesInRange} to {{}, {}} repeat with i from 1 to (count theStartDates) set thisStartDate to item i of theStartDates if (not ((thisStartDate comes before dateRangeStart) or (thisStartDate comes after dateRangeEnd))) then set end of eventDatesInRange to thisStartDate set end of eventSummariesInRange to item i of theSummaries end if end repeat return {eventDatesInRange, eventSummariesInRange} end filterToDateRange -- Sort both the start-date and summary lists by start date. on sortByDate(eventDatesInRange, eventSummariesInRange) -- A sort-customisation object for sorting the summary list in parallel with the date list. script custom property summaries : eventSummariesInRange on swap(i, j) tell item i of my summaries set item i of my summaries to item j of my summaries set item j of my summaries to it end tell end swap end script CustomBubbleSort(eventDatesInRange, 1, -1, {slave:custom}) end sortByDate -- CustomBubbleSort from "A Dose of Sorts" by Nigel Garvey. -- The number of items to be sorted here is likely to be small. on CustomBubbleSort(theList, l, r, customiser) script o property comparer : me property slave : me property lst : theList on bsrt(l, r) set l2 to l + 1 repeat with j from r to l2 by -1 set a to item l of o's lst repeat with i from l2 to j set b to item i of o's lst if (comparer's isGreater(a, b)) then set item (i - 1) of o's lst to b set item i of o's lst to a slave's swap(i - 1, i) else set a to b end if end repeat end repeat end bsrt -- Default comparison and slave handlers for an ordinary sort. on isGreater(a, b) (a > b) end isGreater on swap(a, b) end swap end script -- Process the input parameters. set listLen to (count theList) if (listLen > 1) then -- Negative and/or transposed range indices. if (l < 0) then set l to listLen + l + 1 if (r < 0) then set r to listLen + r + 1 if (l > r) then set {l, r} to {r, l} -- Supplied or default customisation scripts. if (customiser's class is record) then set {comparer:o's comparer, slave:o's slave} to (customiser & {comparer:o, slave:o}) -- Do the sort. o's bsrt(l, r) end if return -- nothing end CustomBubbleSort -- Compose the text from the items in the start-date and summary lists. on composeText(eventDatesInRange, eventSummariesInRange) set txt to "" set gap to linefeed & linefeed repeat with i from 1 to (count eventDatesInRange) set txt to txt & (date string of item i of eventDatesInRange) & (linefeed & item i of eventSummariesInRange & gap) end repeat return text 1 thru -3 of txt end composeText on main() tell application "Calendar" to set {theStartDates, theSummaries} to {start date, summary} of events of calendar "FL Family Calendar" set {dateRangeStart, dateRangeEnd} to getDateRange() set {eventDatesInRange, eventSummariesInRange} to filterToDateRange(theStartDates, theSummaries, dateRangeStart, dateRangeEnd) sortByDate(eventDatesInRange, eventSummariesInRange) set txt to composeText(eventDatesInRange, eventSummariesInRange) tell application "TextEdit" make new document with properties {text:txt} activate end tell end main main()
After installing icalendar (pip install icalendar), events for an ICS file can be exported to TXT via this Python script:
import icalendar from icalendar import Calendar import datetime # Load the calendar file calendar_file = '/path/to/your/calendar.ics' with open(calendar_file, 'rb') as f: gcal = Calendar.from_ical(f.read()) # Extract events events = [] for component in gcal.walk(): if component.name == "VEVENT": summary = component.get('summary') start = component.get('dtstart').dt end = component.get('dtend').dt description = component.get('description') location = component.get('location') # Ensure start is a datetime object and make it offset-naive if isinstance(start, datetime.date) and not isinstance(start, datetime.datetime): start = datetime.datetime.combine(start, datetime.datetime.min.time()) if start.tzinfo is not None: start = start.replace(tzinfo=None) events.append({ 'summary': summary, 'start': start, 'end': end, 'description': description, 'location': location }) # Sort events by start date events.sort(key=lambda x: x['start']) # Write events to a TXT file output_file = 'events.txt' with open(output_file, 'w') as f: current_date = None for event in events: event_date = event['start'].date() if current_date != event_date: if current_date is not None: f.write('\n') # Add a blank line between different dates current_date = event_date f.write(event_date.strftime('%b %d, %Y') + '\n') start_time = event['start'].strftime('%I:%M %p') if isinstance(event['start'], datetime.datetime) else '' f.write(f" {start_time} - {event['summary']}\n") if event['description']: f.write(f" Description: {event['description']}\n") if event['location']: f.write(f" Location: {event['location']}\n") print(f"Events have been saved to {output_file}")
Archiving Calendar.app events as plain text

/mac | Oct 14, 2012

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