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simonbengtsson / eventcal

Filter to only include attending and maybe facebook events in ical and google calendar
http://eventcal.flown.io
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Unchecked Going and Maybe events staying on calendar. #23

Closed MedicineManOfSeattle closed 5 years ago

MedicineManOfSeattle commented 6 years ago

When I go through and uncheck the maybe and/or going to the FB events, the events are still on my calendar.

Duplicates also seem to be created if I recheck Maybe or Going for a series of events.

simonbengtsson commented 6 years ago

Strange! Probably not much that can be done in this service however since it is only a filter between the facebook and a calendar client and does not store any data. If duplicates exists it should either be the calendar client or facebook that creates them. My guess would be your calendar client since it works for me.

MedicineManOfSeattle commented 6 years ago

It's probably more a function of how often, if ever, the program calls for the calendar events.

I'm sure it's also the same issue with FB not being restive on the length of event names (70 characters) that is messing up their native iCal as well.

simonbengtsson commented 6 years ago

Whenever a calendar client wants an update it will request it by eventcal which in turn will request an update from facebook which it sends back to the calendar client slighty filtered and sanitized. The refresh frequency can vary greatly from client to client and in Apple Calendar you can specify it yourself.

Is it some calendar client only supporting 70 characters? Maybe it would be helpful to add an optional 70 character filter as well to the title then?

MedicineManOfSeattle commented 6 years ago

I would agree that the 70 ical filter would make perfect sense and allow syncing again with Google Calendar.

https://support.google.com/calendar/forum/AAAAd3GaXpE5IwE8w1JjPA/?hl=en

http://medicinemanofseattle.blogspot.com/ https://support.google.com/calendar/forum/AAAAd3GaXpE5IwE8w1JjPA/?hl=en

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Whenever a calendar client want's an update it will request it by eventcal which in turn will request an update from facebook which it sends back to the calendar client slighty filtered and sanitized. The refresh frequency can vary greatly from client to client and in Apple Calendar you can specify it yourself.

Is it some calendar client only supporting 70 characters? Maybe it would be helpful to add an optional 70 character filter as well to the title then?

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simonbengtsson commented 6 years ago

Not sure what that link says? I tried adding an event with 200 characters now and Google Calendar seems to be happy with it.