iCal Extractor

A simple command line utility that takes an iCal file and lets you extract certain events which match criteria to a TSV file.

Pre-requisites

Maven 3

Building

mvn install

Running

Grab the .jar file that you've built.

java -jar icalextractor-1.0.0.jar inputfile outputfile [options]
Options: 
-period from to 	Filters output for entries within the stated two ISO dates.
-title word 	Filters output for entries with the title word.

Exporting an iCal File

See the 'Exporting content from all calendars...' section here - http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37111

Examples

To extract all events with a tag '[film]' in their titles.

java -jar icalextractor-1.0.0.jar calendar.ics films.tsv -title [film]

To extract all events with a tag '[meal]' in their titles in 2012

java -jar icalextractor-1.0.0.jar calendar.ics meals.tsv -title [meal] -period 2012-01-01 2012-12-31