I think it is reasonable that Google chooses to not allow ical files that arnt able to be fetched by robots and cached.
why exclude public shared calendars using robots.txt?
can we host our own instance of the converter?
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 6:31 AM, Michael Peel michael.peel@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Ah, fun. I see this is a known problem that Tom Morris pointed out last year: http://microformats.org/wiki/h2vx#robots.txt_prevents_subscription_in_Google...
Quite why Google Calendar is misusing robots.txt like this, I don't know... (it's natural to use robots.txt to keep pages from appearing in the google search index, but that shouldn't then also apply in this sort of situation.)
I'll see if I can figure out a work-around for subscribing to the calendar, but it'll take me a day or so. In the meantime, you can always download the calendar file and import it into Google Calendar...
Thanks, Mike
On 5 May 2012, at 20:38, Don Burke wrote:
I cannot subscribe in Google Calendar because it says robots.txt does not allow crawling.
Don
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Michael Peel michael.peel@wikimedia.org.ukwrote:
Hi all,
I've incorporated the hcalendar microformat into the office hours template, and http://h2vx.com/ics/ provides an open source solution (based on http://microformats.org/wiki/x2v) for converting hcalendar microformats into iCal files.
You can download the ical from: http://h2vx.com/ics/https%3A//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours or subscribe to it at: webcal://h2vx.com/ics/https%3A//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours
All open source, no duplication of data or increased maintenance costs. The only downside is that the template call is a bit more complex now, particularly because an end time needed to be specified.
Please let me know if anyone encounters any problems with this solution...
Thanks, Mike
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