Shout out on Hipchat what's on a google calendar for today
At our office, every day is different. You never know who you can expect to see there. Some collegues will visit clients, others are doing part time academic work, someone could have a day off or maybe working from home... you get the gist. This little project grew out of the need to be informed about how many people one can expect to see at the office.
Obviously we jot this all this information down in a calendar but I'm too lazy for looking that thing up every day. I simply want an app to shout it at me on HipChat while I have breakfast.
You need a YAML file with your config, something like this:
in_and_out:
calendar_url: {{your calendar as xml}}
hipchat_token: {{a token for HipChat}}
hipchat_room: {{the room in which you want to read your msg}}
another_calendar:
hipchat_room: {{your calendar as xml}}
hipchat_token: {{a token for HipChat}}
hipchat_room: {{the room in which you want to read your msg}}You may specify as many configs as you want.
Google might give you a URL which ends in /basic. This version of your calendar contains no start or end times. Change /basic into /full for a version that does. (Google why didn't you tell me? It took me ages to figure this out!)
Then you feed this config to the script to see if it works:
bin/today_on_hipchat < my_superawesome_configuration.ymlAnd you set up the obvious cron job for it.
A typical use would be to call Today in a daily cron-job. You can use the script below as a starting point. (mainly useful to see how to use rbenv with this)
#!/bin/sh
export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/shims:$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
TZ=Europe/Amsterdam bin/today_on_hipchat < config.ymlUse the TZ environment variable to set the time zone for displaying times.