Mon, 05 Feb 2007

Last.fm Events in Google Calendar

If you use Last.fm, you may have got around to using their events feature where you can search for events near you and mark yourself attending those events. I was manually entering the information into my google calendar, which was a pain.

Fortunately, being one of those hip, friendly web2.0 websites, Last.fm allows you to get your data out in all sorts of useful ways, including you event calendar as an iCal file. Google being useful, allow you to display external iCal files in your calendar. Can you see where I'm going with this? To get this up, log into you Google calendar, go to "Manage Calendars", then "Add Calendar", then "Public Calendar Address". Finally type in the url of your last.fm iCal file, which will be http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/user/dpash/events.ics, although obviously you need to change dpash to your particular last.fm username. Now, you only need to mark yourself attending a gig to have it show up in your Google calendar.

You can use something like this to get it into your Evolution calendar.

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Ah, I was hoping there was a way to get an iCal feed, though unfortunately last.fm doesn't link to it directly.

If you just want it to show up in Evolution it's really simple.  Just create a new calendar, pick type "On the Web" and enter a name for it and the URL.
Posted by Matt Good at Mon Feb 5 19:31:24 2007
Thx for that. ^^ its so much easyer now.


THX a lot
Posted by Csöpi at Mon Apr 2 20:50:53 2007
thx, I stumbled around with the various ical's last.fm presents, but selecting the link you put up (and changing the name) worked!
Posted by klixu at Tue Jul 3 01:45:41 2007
Hi, thank you!

it really works :D

Maybe I'll add my friends' calendars too, just for fun :D

I will be forwarding this page to my friends also.
Posted by George at Mon Sep 24 14:14:23 2007

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