WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?

I miss the old "create event" in Google Calendar, so I wanted to make something like that, and ultimately plug it in to Alfred (which is why it's written in Python 2.7, because alfred-workflow uses system python only).

The parsing is only as good as dateparser can produce (so-so), and my terrible date parsing code too.

in use

python gcollinder.py "party 23:41 23rd feb in the place"
<some gnarly google calendar URL in return"

or with no arguments, it will read one line in. (so you can not worry about quoting and frens)

installing strange python packages. (I no longer get my eggs from the cheese shop)

I used pipenv to do virtualenvs which are apparently a good idea? The follow is what I done did.

laptop:tmp% git clone https://github.com/barn/python-gcal-creator.git && cd python-gcal-creator
Cloning into 'python-gcal-creator'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 15, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (15/15), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (13/13), done.
remote: Total 15 (delta 4), reused 10 (delta 2), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (15/15), 17.18 KiB | 733.00 KiB/s, done.

laptop:python-gcal-creator% pipenv install
Installing dependencies from Pipfile.lock (70c7ae)…
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To activate this project's virtualenv, run pipenv shell.
Alternatively, run a command inside the virtualenv with pipenv run.

laptop:python-gcal-creator% pipenv shell
Launching subshell in virtual environment…
 . /Users/bea/.virtualenvs/python-gcal-creator-1-ryXFoa/bin/activate

laptop:python-gcal-creator%  . /Users/bea/.virtualenvs/python-gcal-creator-1-ryXFoa/bin/activate

laptop:python-gcal-creator% python gcollinder.py 'party at 11am tomorrow'
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?action=TEMPLATE&text=party+&dates=20200226T211517%2F20200226T214517&location=&trp=True