Birthday Calendar From Contacts

This is a simple tool to convert your contacts.csv to an ical file

Why?

Google dont give you an Birthday alert when you synchronize Google-Calender and Google-Contacts.
In most cases your forced to download apps which notify you

Installation

pip3 install icalendar

Quickstart

Export the contacts.csv file from your phone
put the file into your working folder
run main.py
import the birthday.ics file to your prefered calendar

Example contacts.csv file:

Name	Additional Name	Birthday	Initials
Albert Einstein	Smartboy	1879-03-14	AE
Elon Musk	Tesla CEO	1971-06-28	EM
Nat Friedman	Github	1977-08-06	NF

Example birthday.ics file:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:1.0
PRODID:Birthday-Calendar
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Albert Einstein
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:18790314T080000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:18790314T100000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210321T212250Z
UID:1879-03-14 08:00:00+00:00Albert Einstein
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
PRIORITY:5
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Elon Musk
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19710628T080000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19710628T100000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210321T212250Z
UID:1971-06-28 08:00:00+00:00Elon Musk
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
PRIORITY:5
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Nat Friedman
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19770806T080000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:19770806T100000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20210321T212250Z
UID:1977-08-06 08:00:00+00:00Nat Friedman
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY
PRIORITY:5
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR