Puddle Of Code - Metal Releases ICalendar

This simple ruby script parse http://www.metalstorm.ee/ and create ical file with new and upcoming releases.

You can find it here.If you want to see it in action, click here.

Because of hosting problem, script is unavailable, but check new version here.

Here is whole cgi script:

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/http'
require 'cgi'

puts "Content-Type: text/plain"
puts

puts "BEGIN:VCALENDAR"
puts "VERSION:2.0"
puts "PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN"
puts "X-WR-CALNAME:Metal Storm Releases"
>puts "X-WR-CALDESC:New and Upcomming Music Metal Releases taken from http://www.metalstorm.ee. Made by FaziBear."
new = Net::HTTP.get_response( URI.parse('http://www.metalstorm.ee/events/new_releases.php'))
upc = Net::HTTP.get_response( URI.parse('http://www.metalstorm.ee/events/new_releases.php?upcoming=1'))

text = ""
text << new.body
text << upc.body

year = 0;

text.scan(/<span class=title>.*?(\d\d\d\d).*?<\/span><br>|<br><span class=dark>(\d\d).(\d\d).*?<\/span><a href=#(.*?)>(.*?)<\/a>/i) do |is_year, day,month, id ,desc|
  if (! is_year.nil?) then<
    #puts "|#{is_year}|#{day}|#{month}|#{id}|#{desc}"
    year = is_year
  else
    puts "BEGIN:VEVENT"
    puts "DTSTART:#{year}#{month}#{day}"
    puts "DTEND:#{year}#{month}#{day}"
    puts "SUMMARY:#{CGI::unescapeHTML(desc)}"
    puts "URL:http://www.metalstorm.ee/events/new_releases.php##{id}"
    puts "END:VEVENT"
    end
end

puts "END:VCALENDAR"

Michał Kalbarczyk

Metal Releases ICalendar