NEW: script to add theAlt Events to calendar

README.md

@@ -39,3 +39,14 @@ Contains core functionality of the Study Manager. Namely it can:
 - [Rofi](https://github.com/davatorium/rofi)
 - [python-rofi](https://pypi.org/project/python-rofi/)
 - [Khal](https://github.com/pimutils/khal) (optional)
+
+## theAltEvent.py
+> Create calendar entries for courses of [theAlternative](https://thealternative.ch/)
+
+### Usage
+- Clone [theAlternative Website](https://gitlab.ethz.ch/thealternative/website)
+- Run `./theAltEvent.py` and pass as arguments all `.yml` files of the events located in `events` that you want to create an empty for. E.g. `theAltEvent.py ./events/*.yml`
+
+### Requirements
+- [Python3](https://www.python.org/)
+- [Khal](https://github.com/pimutils/khal) (optional)

theAltEvent.py

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+#!/bin/python
+
+# Iterate over all files passed as arguments and create an calendar entry for each of them.
+# Directories and non-yaml (must end with `.yaml` or `.yml`) are ignored.
+
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+import yaml
+from datetime import datetime
+import subprocess
+
+CALENDAR = "TheAlt"
+
+if len(sys.argv) <= 1:
+    print("Provide some file to extract the event from.")
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+cmds = []
+
+for e in sys.argv[1:]:
+    e = Path(e)
+
+    if e.is_dir() or e.suffix.lower() not in [".yaml", ".yml"]:
+        continue
+
+    assert e.is_file()
+
+    with open(e, "r") as f:
+        content = yaml.safe_load(f)
+
+    fileName = e.stem
+
+    eventDate = datetime.strptime(fileName[0:10], "%Y-%m-%d").strftime("%d/%m/%Y")
+
+    calendar = CALENDAR
+    location = content["location"]
+    categories = ""
+    startDate = eventDate
+    startTime = content["startTime"]
+    endTime = content["endTime"]
+    title = fileName[11:]
+
+    cmd = [
+        "khal",
+        "new",
+        f"--calendar={calendar}",
+        f"--location='{location}'",
+        f"--categories='{categories}'",
+        startDate,
+        startTime,
+        endTime,
+        title,
+    ]
+
+    cmds.append(cmd)
+
+while True:
+    commandList = "\n".join([" ".join(c) for c in cmds])  ## Prepare for printing
+    choice = input(
+        "Do you want to execute the following commands? YES/NO:\n" + commandList + "\n"
+    ).lower()
+    if choice in ["yes", "y"]:
+        for c in cmds:
+            subprocess.call(c)
+        print("Done")
+        sys.exit(0)
+    elif choice in ["no", "n"]:
+        print("Noting to do. Exiting.")
+        sys.exit(0)
+    else:
+        print("Please respond with 'yes' or 'no'\n")