Corrected for timezones and event duration. The script is now functional.

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,13 @@
 
 ## What does it do ? 
 
-_This short scripts parses an HTML page from the official WAOFF schedule webpage (http://www.weareoneglobalfestival.com/schedule) and parses it to create an iCalendar-formatted file, that you can directly import in your calendar app._
+_This short scripts parses HTML pages from the official WAOFF schedule webpage (http://www.weareoneglobalfestival.com/schedule) in order to create an iCalendar-formatted file, that you can directly import in your calendar app._
+
+Usage : 
+```bash
+python3 parser.py
+```
+
 
 **Note** : the webpage is JS-based, which means you can't just `wget` it to extract the HTML page. You'll need to browse to the schedule page you want, go to the console, and type : 
 ```js
@@ -10,7 +16,3 @@ console.log(document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML);
 ```
 , then copy-paste it to and html file locally, that you'll browse with the script. 
 
-## TODO 
-- [ ] fix the start time problem in the ICS file
-- [ ] handle timezone (the time on the website is EST)
-- [ ] interactive choice of HTML page and name of calendar

parser.py

@@ -1,37 +1,56 @@
-from datetime import datetime 
+from datetime import datetime, timedelta
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from icalendar import Calendar, Event
-import pytz
+from pytz import timezone
+from os import listdir
+
+html_dirname = input("In which dir are the html files ? (default : html/)")
+html_dirname = html_dirname if html_dirname != "" else "html"
+ics_filename = input("To which ICS file should I output ? (default : ./waoff-calendar.ics)")
+ics_filename = ics_filename if ics_filename != "" else "waoff-calendar.ics"
+local_tz = input("Which timezone should I place the events to ? (default : Europe/Paris)")
+local_tz = timezone(local_tz) if local_tz != "" else timezone("Europe/Paris")
 
-file = open('index.html', 'r')
-page = file.read()
 cal = Calendar()
 
+# takes an EST timezone and converts it to the local one
+def convert_timezone(est_dt): 
+    # if local timezone is Paris, correct for daylight saving time
+    if(local_tz == timezone("Europe/Paris")): 
+        return est_dt.astimezone(local_tz) - timedelta(hours = 1)
+    return est_dt.astimezone(local_tz)
+
+# adds calendar event for each film
 def handleFilm(p) : 
     title = p.find('a', {'class':'Film_title'})
-    print(title.string)
     runtime = p.find('div', {'class':'Film_runtime'})
+    summary = p.find('div', {'class' : 'Film_summary'})
+
     time = p.find('span', {'class': 'start_time'})
-    # Starts at 05:15 PM EST on May 29
     time_formatted = datetime.strptime(time.string, "Starts at %I:%M %p EST on %B %d")
     time_formatted = time_formatted.replace(year=2020)
-    tz_time = pytz.timezone('US/Eastern')
+    time_formatted = time_formatted.replace(tzinfo = timezone("EST"))
-    tz_time.localize(time_formatted)
+    time_formatted = convert_timezone(time_formatted)
-    print(time_formatted)
-    print("Europe : " + str(tz_time))
-    summary = p.find('div', {'class' : 'Film_summary'})
 
     event = Event()
     event.add('description', summary.string)
     event.add('summary', title.string)
     event.add('dtstart', time_formatted)
+    event.add('dtend', time_formatted + timedelta(hours = 1))
     
     cal.add_component(event)
 
-soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
+# read every html file in the html directory
-for p in soup.find_all('div', {'class': 'Film'}):
+for filename in listdir(html_dirname):
-    handleFilm(p)
+    file = open(html_dirname + '/' + filename, 'r')
+    page = file.read()
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(page)
+    for p in soup.find_all('div', {'class': 'Film'}):
+        handleFilm(p)
 
-f = open("waoff-calendar.ics", 'wb')
+# write events to ics file
+f = open(ics_filename, 'wb')
 f.write(cal.to_ical())
 f.close()
+
+print("Done !")

waoff-calendar.ics

@@ -1,273 +0,0 @@
-BEGIN:VCALENDAR
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Alteration
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:When Alexandro volunteered for a dream experiment\, he never i
- magined that he would be subjected to a form of Artificial Intelligence wh
- o aims to digitize his subconscious.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Annecy Shorts for Families
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:None
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Bilby
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:This sweet short from DreamWorks Animation Studios finds a lon
- esome bilby tangled up with a helpless baby bird in the deadly desert of A
- ustralia.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Bird Karma
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:A crafty\, long-legged bird chases a mesmerizing fish through 
- a foggy pond in this sprightly short\, produced by DreamWorks Animation St
- udios.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Bloodless
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:Portraying the final moments of a sex worker murdered by a US 
- soldier in South Korea\, this piece brings historical atrocities to light 
- through a concrete personal experience.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Crow: The Legend
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:The carefree animals imagine spring is endless. But when the v
- ery first winter arrives\, can Crow (John Legend) make the ultimate sacrif
- ice to save his friends?\n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Daughters of Chibok
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:This VR experience deals with the aftermath of the kidnapping 
- of 276 schoolgirls in 2014 in Nigeria\, and explores topical global issues
-  of gender rights and the right to education.\n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Extravaganza
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:A busy executive (Paul Scheer) tests a VR headset that promise
- s to be the future of entertainment...but is actually anything but forward
-  thinking.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Ghost Fleet VR
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:This harrowing look at slavery in the Thai fishing industry is
-  told through the experience of one man's harrowing ordeal to escape a pri
- son of water after 10 years at sea.\n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Isle of the Dead
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:A timeless voyage from an everyday apartment toward our final 
- destination\, guided by Charon\, ferryman of the Underworld.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Ivory Burn
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:This film bears witness to the burning of over 100 tons of ele
- phant tusks and rhinoceros horn: a symbolic and visceral clarion call to t
- he poaching and illegal trade syndicates.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Jaws — Assembling a Top-Tier Team (feat. TierZoo)
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:This video essay by YouTube creators of Lessons From The Scree
- nplay analyzes the classic blockbuster Jaws to examine how a screenwriter 
- can craft a dynamic team of characters.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Marooned
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:In this stylized DreamWorks Animation Studios short set in the
-  not-too-distant future\, a cantankerous and selfish robot is put to the t
- est while stranded on an abandoned lunar outpost.\n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Minotaur
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:A mythical passage through the archetypal hero’s journey. Th
- rough abstractions\, we experience their corresponding emotional states: c
- alm\, love\, joy\, surprise\, fear\, anger/hate\, and death/rebirth\, lead
- ing again to calm.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:My Africa
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:This mixed-reality experience transports viewers to an elephan
- t sanctuary in Kenya\, where a community is reknitting the bonds that have
-  long enabled people and wildlife to coexist.\n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:On/Off
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:Behind the closed doors of an intensive care unit\, ON/OFF loo
- ks at how difficult it is for healthcare professionals to confront and “
- manage” death on a daily basis. \n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Passenger
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:This abstracted and dreamlike experience places you in the bac
- kseat of a taxi\, and recreates the geographic and visual dislocation of f
- inding a new home in a foreign land.\n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Sébastien Tellier on Paris’ rooftop | A Take Away Show
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:French artist Sébastien Tellier serenades Paris from one of i
- ts highest point of view: the roof of Le Théâtre du Châtelet\, in the h
- eart of the city
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Step To The Line
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:Shot entirely in a maximum security prison\, this piece shows 
- how release from incarceration can be just as jarring as intake and how pa
- rallel lives diverge when someone serves time.\n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:The Stories That Prepared Us
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:A telling of the story of Coronavirus through moments in criti
- cally-acclaimed film and television.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Traveling While Black
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:Confronting the way we understand and talk about race in Ameri
- ca\, Traveling While Black immerses the viewer in the long history of rest
- ricted movement for Black Americans. \n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:The Waiting Room
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T070000
-DESCRIPTION:An unflinching record of Victoria Mapplebeck’s journey from 
- breast cancer diagnosis to recovery\, The Waiting Room considers what we c
- an or can’t control when our bodies fail us. \n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:And Then The Bear
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T080000
-DESCRIPTION:Houses will burn. Men and women will tremble. But the children
-  will come together and howl as they dance on the ashes like wild bears in
-  this vivid animation.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:The Distance Between Us And The Sky
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T080000
-DESCRIPTION:In this Short Film Palme d’Or winner\, two strangers (Ioko I
- oannis Kotidis\, Nikos Zeginogolu) meet one night at a gas station. One is
-  there to refuel\; the other is stranded.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:The Short Film Selection in Competition at the 72nd Festival de Ca
- nnes: Program 2
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T080000
-DESCRIPTION:None
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:White Echo
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T080000
-DESCRIPTION:Chloë Sevigny’s ethereal séance-story sees a young woman\,
-  Carla (Kate Lyn Sheil)\, explore and wield her inner power while on vacat
- ion with friends.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Cinema Cafe with Jackie Chan
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T093000
-DESCRIPTION:Recorded live from the Sundance Film Festival\, each Cinema Ca
- fé invigorates the culture of conversation. Our informal chats round up s
- pecial guests for thought-provoking discussions between Festival filmmaker
- s and journalists. Cinema Cafe with Jac...
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Losing Alice
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T104500
-DESCRIPTION:Fascination spirals into Faustian bargain after an ambitious f
- emale film director meets—and obsesses over—a younger femme-fatale scr
- eenwriter.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Electric Swan
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T130000
-DESCRIPTION:An apartment building in Buenos Aires begins to tremble and pr
- ovokes an otherworldly nausea throughout the city in this magical realist 
- skewering of its class divisions.\n\n
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Crazy World
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T140000
-DESCRIPTION:Pint-sized kung fu masters face off with the evil Tiger Mafia 
- in this action flick from Uganda's no-budget\, gonzo super-studio\, Wakali
- wood.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T153000
-DESCRIPTION:Featuring Jamaican reggae and ska legends like Lee “Scratch
- ” Perry and Marcia Griffiths\, Rudeboy chronicles a multicultural revolu
- tion on the dancefloors of late ’60s and early ’70s Britain.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Cru - Raw
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T171500
-DESCRIPTION:A young chef (Jeanne Werne) must learn that in this kitchen\, 
- a lot of blood\, sweat\, and tears go into making every dish.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Egg
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T171500
-DESCRIPTION:An action-packed romance and Americana western adventure about
-  an egg's epic Hollywood journey from farm to table.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:The Light Side
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T171500
-DESCRIPTION:An aging Sith Lord must come to grips with his past and discov
- er why humility may be the greatest force in the galaxy.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Motorcycle Drive By
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T171500
-DESCRIPTION:Third Eye Blind cannot finish their new album in time for a ma
- ssive tour. Their fans still show\, breaking attendance records\, and high
- lighting the importance of the band's deep cuts.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:No More Wings
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T171500
-DESCRIPTION:At a divergent point in their lives\, two lifelong friends (Iv
- anno Jeremiah\, Parys Jordon) meet at their favorite South London fried ch
- icken shop. 
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:TOTO
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T171500
-DESCRIPTION:Rosa Forlano\, a 90 year old Nonna\, falls in love with a robo
- t while teaching it how to make spaghetti. Unfortunately\, her family reci
- pe is erased by a software update.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Tribeca 2020 Shorts Program
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T171500
-DESCRIPTION:None
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:When I Write It
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T171500
-DESCRIPTION:Two Oakland teens (Leila Mottley\, Ajai Kasim) explore what it
-  means to be young\, Black and committed to making art in their rapidly ch
- anging city.
-END:VEVENT
-BEGIN:VEVENT
-SUMMARY:Circus Person
-DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20200529T190500
-DESCRIPTION:Left by her fiancé for another woman\, a grieving painter (Br
- itt Lower) joins a one-ring circus to reclaim her forgotten wildness.
-END:VEVENT
-END:VCALENDAR