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EventSync: Sync iCal and facebook events

Event Sync 120pxJames Frye has written a small app that syncs facebook events into iCal, so that you can integrate your facebook invitations with the rest of your calendars in one view.

Packaged up as a stand-alone app, it first authenticates into your facebook account, and then retrieves a list of your events.

Its Preferences allow you to determine whether or not it lists events that you have accepted, declined, are unsure about or have not yet replied to.

You are then presented with a dialog containing the events:

Event Sync Event List

Hit the sync button, and the app creates a new local calendar in iCal called “facebook events”, displaying all your “facebook dates”.

Because it is all listed in one new calendar, it’s easy to delete them again—say, hypothetically, you have a student who has (by mistake?) created a 21st birthday party that lasts for a month. It’s easy to undo the sync again.

James is working on EventSync 2.0 which will display the flyers and images associated with the facebook events as well.

EventSync is donation-ware and can be downloaded from its own web site.facebook, ical, events, syncing, social networking, not apple mail, not mail.app

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4 Responses to “EventSync: Sync iCal and facebook events”

  1. John says:
    October 28th, 2009 at 2:26 am

    Or, you could just click the calendar export button on the events page on Facebook, copy the URL, and “subscribe” to it in iCal.

    Works perfectly, without an extra app, is always up-to-date, syncs across computers and iPhone, &c.

    JP

  2. Tim Gaden says:
    October 28th, 2009 at 6:51 am

    You could. Although you won’t have the same control over which category of events to display. Declined, tentative and accepted events are all exported en masse.

    Or is there something I am missing?

  3. EventSync:les agendas bien garnis de Facebook sur…iCal! « Mac Aficionados says:
    December 8th, 2009 at 2:20 pm

    [...] L’objectif n’étant pas de démontrer à tord ou à raison si tel est le cas, il est certain que les Mac Aficionados devraient pouvoir tirer avantage de ces technologies qui, lorsqu’elles sont adéquatement utilisées, pourraient permettre d’atteindre les objectifs professionnels. Quant à ceux qui voient en ces réseaux sociaux l’occasion de se maintenir informés de tout ce qui peut se passer dans sa communauté, sa ville ou sa région, l’application EventSync rendra bien des services! Elle est développée par James Frye (retrouvez son blog ici). [...]

  4. Stephane Gauvin says:
    December 10th, 2009 at 8:48 am

    Any way to do the opposite? i.e. pushing an iCal event into FB.

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