Robot Has No Heart

Quick script I put together to automatically back up all of Jodie’s calendars for her.

Works for any online calendar that exposes an iCal link. You’ll need to replace “http://icalurl” in the script with the private iCal URL of your calendar. In Zoho, this is under Settings > My Calendars > Share > Enable private Address for this calendar.

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require 'date'
require 'fileutils'

calendars = {
  'My Calendar'    => 'http://icalurl',
  'Other Calendar' => 'http://icalurl'
}

folder = Date.today.to_s

FileUtils.mkdir_p(folder)

calendars.each do |name, url|
  puts %|Backing up "#{name}"...|
  `curl -s "#{url}" > "#{folder}/#{name}.ics"`
end
puts "Done!"

Stores a folder per day. For bonus points, put it straight into Dropbox.