#webuild-events

Get a list of free developer-related events in your city from facebook, meetup.com, eventbrite, ics url and manual entries.

##install

npm i webuild-events

##usage

1. we will create the following folder structure:

   .
   ├── .env
   ├── config
   │   ├── blacklistEvents.json
   │   ├── facebookGroups.json
   │   ├── icsGroups.json
   │   └── whitelistEvents.json
   ├── config.js
   ├── node_modules
   │   ├── dotenv
   │   └── webuild-events
   └── index.js
   

• create a .env file to store all the environment variables:

   NODE_ENV=development
   LOCATION=Singapore # name of city
   WEBUILD_API_SECRET=secret # any random string - used as a password when remotely refreshing the feeds
   MEETUP_API_KEY=secret # generate it from https://secure.meetup.com/meetup_api/key/ to get meetup.com events
   EVENTBRITE_TOKEN=secret # generate it from http://developer.eventbrite.com/ to get eventbrite events
  
   # Create an Auth0 https://auth0.com/ account and a Facebook app and link them (https://docs.auth0.com/facebook-clientid). Configure the `WEBUILD_AUTH0_CLIENT_*` environment variables.`
   WEBUILD_AUTH0_CLIENT_ID=secret
   WEBUILD_AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET=secret

• create a json file config/facebookGroups.json to list all the Facebook pages / groups you want to list the upcoming events:

   [
     {
       "name": "Adobe InDesign Singapore User Group", // name of the facebook page / group
       "id": "116531348396769" // id of the facebook page / groups: https://lookup-id.com/
     },
   	...
   ]

• create 2 json files config/blacklistEvents.json and config/whitelistEvents.json to add / remove events manually:

   [
     {
       "id": "999999999",
       "name": "This is a sample event on how to fill up this file. For whitelistEvents.json: all fields are required. For blacklistEvents.json: id, formatted_time and url are required. Time fields are filled in as an example for time format DD MMM YYYY, ddd, h:mm a.",
       "description": "sample description",
       "location": "sample location",
       "url": "http://www.sample.com/event",
       "group_name": "sample group name",
       "group_url": "http://www.group.com",
       "formatted_time": "14 Nov 2014, Fri, 6:00 pm",
       "start_time": "2014-11-14T10:00:00.000Z",
       "end_time": "2014-11-16T09:00:00.000Z"
     },
     ...
   ]

• create a json file config/icsGroups.json to list all urls of ics formatted events:

   [
     {
       "group_name": "KopiJS",
       "group_url": "http://kopi.io/",
       "ics_url": "https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/dnhunu42fotmefouusg4j8ip0k%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics"
     },
     ...
   ]

• create a file config.js with the following contents:

   var city = 'Singapore'; // name of your city E.g. 'Sydney'
   var country = 'Singapore'; // name of your country E.g. 'Australia'
   var locationSymbol = 'SG'; // country code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Officially_assigned_code_elements
  
   function failSafeRequire(filename){
     var requiredData;
     try {
      requiredData  = require(filename);
     }
     catch(e){
       requiredData = [];
     }
     return requiredData;
   }
  
   var facebookGroups = failSafeRequire('./config/facebookGroups.json');
   var blacklistEvents = failSafeRequire('./config/blacklistEvents.json')
   var icsGroups = failSafeRequire('./config/icsGroups.json');
   var whitelistEvents = failSafeRequire('./config/whitelistEvents.json');
   var duplicateWords = require('./config/duplicateWords.json')[0].words; // see sample in examples/duplicateWords.json
  
   module.exports = {
     location: city,
     city: city,
     country: country,
     symbol: locationSymbol,
  
     api_version: 'v1',
  
     displayTimeformat: 'DD MMM YYYY, ddd, h:mm a', // format date: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/
     dateFormat: 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm Z', // format time: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/
     timezone: '+0800', // timezone UTC offset: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
     timezoneInfo: 'Asia/Singapore', // timezone name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones
  
     debug: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development',
  
     ignoreWordsInDuplicateEvents: duplicateWords, // array of words to ignore in detecting duplicate events
  
     auth0: {
       domain: 'webuildsg.auth0.com',
       clientId: process.env.WEBUILD_AUTH0_CLIENT_ID,
       clientSecret: process.env.WEBUILD_AUTH0_CLIENT_SECRET
     },
  
     meetupParams: {
       key: process.env.MEETUP_API_KEY,
       country: locationSymbol,
       state: locationSymbol,
       city: city,
       category_id: 34, // Tech category
       page: 500,
       fields: 'next_event',
  
       blacklistGroups: [],
       blacklistWords: [],
     },
  
     eventbriteParams: {
       token: process.env.EVENTBRITE_TOKEN,
       url: 'https://www.eventbriteapi.com/v3/events/search',
       categories: [
         '102',
         '119'
       ],
       blacklistOrganiserId: []
     }
   };
  

• create index.js:

   require('dotenv').load();
   var config = require('./config');
   var events = require('webuild-events').init(config).events;
  
   setTimeout(function() {
     console.log('Found ' + events.feed.events.length + ' events from Facebook:')
     console.log('\nMeta info:')
     console.log(events.feed.meta)
     console.log('\nFirst event info:')
     console.log(events.feed.events[0])
   }, 30000);

• install the relevant dependencies:

   npm i webuild-event
   npm i dotenv

• run the file with node index.js

#contribute

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

#versioning

Following the Semantic Versioning guidelines, run the grunt bump, grunt bump:minor or grunt bump:major commands to bump the version accordingly.

#license

webuild-events is released under the MIT License.