HOWTO: add MyEpisodes to google calendar

mayco · Posts: 4

okay, i got tired of waiting untill they created an iCal file, so i made an convertor myself...
you need an webserver with php for this to work...

Unrar the package, and open the myepisodes2ical.php file with notepad.

change the two config lines to match your information from http://www.myepisodes.com/rsshelp.php

you can see things like this:

?feed=[Feed]&uid=mayco&pwdmd5=1f15b47bf85ead05209ce3dba6ce51a7

change the lines like this (based on your link from http://www.myepisodes.com/rsshelp.php)

$config["myepisodes_username"] = "mayco";
$config["myepisodes_md5password"] = "1f15b47bf85ead05209ce3dba6ce51a7";

then upload all files to an FTP server, chmod the cache diretory to 777

now, go to google calendar, and click on manage calendars, click on "add calendar" at the bottom of the screen, take the tab Public Calendar Adress, and enter the full url to the uploaded myepisodes2ical.php file.

Click OK, and your MyEpisodes list is added to google calendar!

DOWNLOAD: http://users.skynet.be/bk333867/myepisodes2ical.rar

If you think this is to confusing, you should ask to add iCal support here: http://www.myepisodes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=196 Smile

mayco

IceMan · Founder Posts: 611 Location: Denmark

Hello mayco.

Great stuff, I got so happy when I saw it.
I just love when the comunity is helping itself. Wink

PS. I am working on other stuff atm, but I can promise that the iCal is on my todo list. Smile

- IceMan

joesparano · Posts: 53

mayco,

I've been using your script for a few days now. It's truly killer. Thanks for working this up for us!

Joe

mayco · Posts: 4

I'm glad to see somebody likes it Smile

Enjoy!

joesparano · Posts: 53

mayco,

Any chance the "&" in series titles can be correctly translated? My listings for "Brothers & Sisters" are displaying as "Brothers &#38, Sisters".

Joe

THEMike · Posts: 10

Hmm not working right for me.

My RSS feed includes a variety of shows, my ical feed is only showing battle star gallactica s03e03 many times:

http://fuckingbrit.com/backend/episodes/myepisodes2ical.php

And that is not being listed in google calendar either

joesparano · Posts: 53

THEMike,

Make sure that the feed you're subscribing to contains "feed=mylist" and that your "days backward" and "days forward" are set to your desired window.

Joe

THEMike · Posts: 10

chayner · Posts: 1

THEMike :
I am having the same troubles as you -- everything is repeating itself.

Looking at the code, it seems as though something is being set as a reference when it shouldn't be...

Also, I noticed that this only works in PHP5 (for serialize())... What is the specific environment that you are using?

Any with success with this script: what environment are you using?

Thanks!
~chip

THEMike · Posts: 10

It's a one line fix to fix the repeating issue:

Around line 69 the original has:

THEMike · Posts: 10

But I still get Google Calendar reporting "Failed to Import (url)" which is driving me up the wall. My calendar can be found here

THEMike · Posts: 10

Seems to be a common problem

timepiece · Posts: 1

Any hope of a way to do this for people who don't have their own web server?

clueo8 · Posts: 6

I'm having an issue where google calendar does not refresh/update when I add or delete a show from my shows. I believe this is a google calendar issue and not a my episodes/php code issue. I did try deleting everything my the cache folder... that may have helped? Does this script clean out the cache folder when it is reaccessed?

clueo8 · Posts: 6

I'm also having an issue where special characters like a single quote ' is showing up as its counterpart "& # 3 9 ;" (minus the spaces) in google calendar.

Spoonman · Posts: 2

Not getting anything at all. Running Apache 2.0.xx, PHP 5.04. I've setup the file correctly (as far as I can tell) by changing the username/password lines. I checked it in a browser, and going to my feed produces a feed, but using me2ic, I get nothing. A blank file. The directory me2ic lives in is chmoded to 777 as well. What should I look at first? Smile

Spoonman · Posts: 2

Wanna know the easiest way to find an answer? Post a question, it'll come to you right afterwards...I was poking around in the PHP script when I realized that a couple of the includes were in subdirectories. Wait, there's no subdirectories....

Hint for those who rarely use unrar: use the "x" switch, not "e". Smile

The items still aren't showing up in calendar, and I think that's because my webserver only serves on HTTPS with a CACert certificate, so Gcal might be ignoring it. Oh, well, I'll have to see if I can find some place else to put it.

From what I can see by manually running it, looks like the script works fantastically, thanks for writing it!

revs · Posts: 1

This is ace!

I dont have a php capable server, so what i did was use OS X built in webserver.

Install PHP
Start OS X webserver, and host files from http://localhost

pow!

Massimo · Posts: 2 Location: Sk�vde / Sverige

this is a great script that you coded!

I was thinking about including it into my iScrybe calendar but for now I will stick to my OS X widget! But I think I�ll use your script, too!

Once again, great job.

EDIT:
I had to test this one Smile

It works just fine. Perhaps you should also mention that one also has to change the following line:

saxx · Posts: 1

I wrote pretty the same thing using ASP.NET 2.0 and C# for myself. If you want the (dirty, but short, only a few lines) code, just message me.

Anyway, I'm running the script on my server and I don't see any reason why I shouldn't share it with you guys (as long as my bandwidth can take it). So, if you don't have your own PHP webspace and want to import your episodes into Google Calendar, use this url (but change the two querystring variables):

http://www.sachsenhofer.com/stuff/myepisodestoical.aspx?uid=YOURUSER&pwdmd5=YOURMD5PWD

The script loads your RSS feed mylist and returns it in ICal format. I've tested it with Google Calender (I don't use any other ICal Application, so I don't know if it works with those).

ps: I'm not logging your users or hashed passwords, so don't worry Very Happy

leto · Posts: 1

Thank you mayco for your script and saxx for hosting it. Working like a charm!

So far this is the best solution I've found to have a nice google compatible merged feed of all tv shows. Thanks again!

DaneeL · Posts: 1

Works great, thank you!

tubb5 · Posts: 1

nosnhojm · Posts: 2

Telecart · Posts: 9

Using the .php (couldn't get the asp to work), I've recently been getting a lot of duplicates in Gcal. ANyone else notice this?

Opening the .php in a browser shows no duplicates, so it's not the code, but something google is doing I imagine.. Anyone know what can be done with it..?