Professional Calendar

a script that parses professional events on Handshake and adds them to Google Calendar

Getting Started

Prerequisites

You will need to install the selenium library for python

pip install selenium

Install GeckoDriver

brew install geckodriver

Or follow the directions for your OS

Setting up

1. set up your Google Calendar API Authentication (https://developers.google.com/calendar/quickstart/python)
2. create a file named "gcal_variables.py"
3. add your scope in gcal_variables.py

scopes = ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar"]

4. add your calendar IDs in gcal_variable.py

cal_id = "<CALENDAR_ID>"

5. change the "main" function in gcal.py to your own calendars
6. change the "add_all_events" function in gcal_helper.py to your own calendars
7. set your Handshake username and password as environment variables

$env:HANDSHAKE_EMAIL = "<YOUR HANDSHAKE EMAIL>"
$env:HANDSHAKE_PASSWORD = "<YOUR HANDSHAKE PASSWORD>"

and change gcal.py to use environment variables
or
set variables in gcal_variable.py

handshake_username = "<YOUR HANDSHAKE EMAIL>"
handshake_password = "<YOUR HANDSHAKE PASSWORD>"

or follow the instructions for your OS

Running

To fetch events from Handshake

python gcal.py fetch

Then you can label the event categories in events.json

To add events to Google Calendar

python gcal.py add

To clear a calendar

python gcal.py clear <CALENDAR NAME>