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Extract Event from Facebook link #29

Open tscheckl opened 6 years ago

tscheckl commented 6 years ago

Maybe it is possible to extract all necessary data from a facebook event to create an event as we need it. This would mean that if there already is a facebook event for the event the user wants to create, he only has to provide a facebook link to that event and the rest can be done automatically. Facebook's API apparently supports reading event data.

tscheckl commented 6 years ago

Looked this up: The Facebook API does not provide all the information we need from an event, e.g. does not explicitly state the artists that are appearing at the event. So we either need to implement a way to extract that information from the event's description or can't do it at all.