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Open data projects, including real-time and reusable data for local tech meetups, events, and map layers.
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RSS Parser #16

Closed allella closed 6 years ago

allella commented 9 years ago

For organizations without an API-method (Meetup, Eventbrite, Facebook), or iCal we can use an RSS feed if they have one particular to their events.

Hopefully we don't have any RSS feeds because they'd have to be crafted with event data and they really aren't made for that purpose alone. So, RSS would be a last resort in most cases.

I see the OpenUpstate website has an iCal(endar) link too, so we shouldn't have to rely on their RSS.

I've added their iCal link to the speadsheet.

KCulture commented 9 years ago

Hey I added the iCal that I could find - Not sure if I can do anything for the groups that have private mailing list

allella commented 9 years ago

Yeah, we'll have to contact people with private and/or non-formatted event lists and ask them to either use a semantic data format http://schema.org/Event or to use iCal or an API of some sort.

KCulture commented 9 years ago

Do you think that we should start asking people as of today.. Or do you think that we should build something with the orginizations that are using api and then once we have a working service we inform these groups how join?

allella commented 9 years ago

@smoking-peanuts I'd vote for waiting until we have something to show and give them a reason to want to care.

KCulture commented 9 years ago

Nice.. I agree. Would you like me to help with everthing else because I have most of the contact that I am able to.. Some of the eventbrights are hard to find or search for so I will simply email the one's that I don't have

allella commented 9 years ago

Next step would be to double-check all the ones that we don't have listed as an API or iCal.

For example, I know Ta5 uses Eventbrite now, so we can add an API key for them. http://www.eventbrite.com/e/287-tech-after-five-greenville-sc-january-21-2015-tickets-14981613409

allella commented 6 years ago

Closing this issue.

For history, see above. For future conversation see the Non-API Based Bots and Ed's new upstate_tech_cal_service repo.