Fetching and Parsing Google Calendar in Typescript (30 lines)

In this video, we continue our journey of developing a smart bot by enhancing its ability to handle schedules and calendar data. Specifically, we focus on integrating a Google Calendar into our bot using Node.js and the Effect library.

What’s Inside:

• Setting up Google Calendar for public access and obtaining the ICS link
• Writing a fetch program to retrieve calendar data using HTTPClientRequest
• Parsing the raw ICS data to make it more user-friendly with node-ical
• Handling errors and ensuring robust response validation
• Composing our fetch and parse programs for seamless operation

By the end of this tutorial, our bot will be equipped with a “calendar lobe,” allowing it to understand and utilize schedule data effectively. In the next video, we’ll integrate these new capabilities with our previous bot functions to create a more intelligent and responsive assistant.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Setting Up Google Calendar
3:00 Fetching Calendar Data
7:20 Parsing ICS Data
12:00 Error Handling and Validation
16:45 Composing Fetch and Parse Programs
19:30 Conclusion and Next Steps
20:02 How Effect.ts saved the President
28:23 It's not Gold all that it luccicates
59:28 Why Game of Thrones was Better Than you Think
287:83 ...
289:2 Profit!

Resources:

• Effect library documentation: [link]
• Node-ical documentation: [link]
• Source code: [GitHub link]
• Let me know in the comment if the links work

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