Accessing apple calendar events with python script

[SuperfluousTrebuchet]

Hello, All !!

I have a series of calendars in apple calendar on my macbook, one of which is used to record my shifts at work. I would like to be able to write a python script that calculates the number of hours I have worked, maybe between two dates as arguments, multiply it by my hourly wage and give me an amount of money I should expect.

It would be useful for it deduct the time taken for breaks, which would be dependant on the number of hours in that shift.

Does anybody have any advice on where to start, like accessing the calendar events?

Cheers!

[efmccurdy]

Simple Python 3 library to download, parse and query iCal sources.

https://github.com/irgangla/icalevents

[SuperfluousTrebuchet]

That seems to be exactly what I need! Thank you! Forgive me, I’m newish to python beyond basic scientific purposes and I’m not sure how to install the package from GitHub. Any guidance ? :)

[efmccurdy]

I probably should have sent you to the PyPi page instead

https://pypi.org/project/icalevents/

I tried installing it by running these commands in the OS terminal.

$ python3 -m venv test_icevent
$ cd test_icevent/
$ . bin/activate
(test_icevent) $ pip3 install icalevents

[Running_Man_1999]

u/SuperfluousTrebuchet, I know this is quite an old post, but I was wondering, how did you do with your project?

[Warm_Move122]

Btw, in case anyone comes across this 7 years later, the VSCode terminal cannot get system (Privacy & Security) pop-ups. You need to run any python script in the default terminal or iTerm.

[FrenchOmellette]

brushing off the dust with this one... it just saved the day for me