UPennPhysCal

A nasty but easy way to keep your GCal updated with department colloquia. Depends on bs4, colorama, and google-api-python-client.

The Calendar

I have this script run once a day, adding events to a UPenn Physics Events calendar. You can add it to your own calendar by clicking the "+" icon in the bottom right of this page.

Usage

You will need to create an Oauth2 credential in Google Cloud to let the script edit your calendar, which can be done by visiting creating a project, enabling the Google Calendar API, and creating credentials for a Desktop Application. Make sure your scope in your credential includes https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.

To connect your Oauth2 credential to your computer download credentials.json. Create a file named cal.json with the Google Calendar ID of the calendar you want to add to in this format:

{
"calendarId": "<id here>"
}

Or, alternatively, if you'd like to add to your main calendar, set calendarId to main.

Then, run events.py, give calendar access to your program, and sit still for a bit while events are added.

Example

>>> python event.py
    On page 1
    Please visit this URL to authorize this application: https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?response_type=code&client_id=...
    Event created: Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar: Large Scale Structure Beyond the 2-Point Function
    Event created: Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Interlayer Excitons and Magneto-Exciton Condensation in van der Waals Heterostructures"
    Event created: HET Seminar: Peter Adshead (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    Event created: Physics and Astronomy Colloquium: "Biological tissues as mechanical metamaterials"
    Event created: HET Seminar: Manki Kim (MIT)
    Event created: Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar: Meng-Xiang Lin (Chicago)
    Event created: Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Quantum optics meets correlated electrons"
    Event created: HET Seminar: Yifan Wang (Harvard)
    Event created: Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "Twisting nodal superconductors"
    Event created: HET Seminar: David E. Kaplan (JHU)
    On page 2
    Event created: Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminar: Jose Maria Ezquiaga (Chicago)
    Event created: Condensed and Living Matter Seminar: "TBA"
    Event created: HET Seminar: An Introduction to the Lattice-Continuum Correspondence
    ...
    28 events created! Final date is 2022-09-21 15:30:00