SIFFCalendarScraper

A little web scraping project for populating subscribable Google Calendars with weekly SIFF movie screenings! (not affiliated with SIFF)

Join one of the calendars - linktr.ee/SIFFCalendars

Getting Started

1. Getting API Credentials

   • In order to run this code, you'll need to get set up with the Google calendars API: https://developers.google.com/calendar/api/quickstart/python

2. Update the workspace + constants

   • Once you have your API credentials, create a file in the workspace root called credentials.json
   • You'll then need to update the constants.py so that the GoogleCalendar enum points at your calendar(s)

3. Install dependencies

   make install

   Alternatively, you can set up a virtual environment to avoid polluting your global pip environment:

   python -m venv .venv
   source .venv/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Run it! It will print logs to standard out as well as to a log file

   ./runner  # note: if you're using a venv, you'll need to update the runner's shebang

5. Set up a crontab with crontab -e. I added this line so that it runs twice a day:

   0 8,17 * * * /home/matthew/SIFFCalendarScraper/runner >> calendar.error.log 2>&1
   

   Because I'm running this on a raspberry-pi, I created a separate branch for pi-specific changes. Here's the diff: raspberry-pi