Defcon 18 Schedule as Google Calendar

[Xeon]

Re: Defcon 18 Schedule as Google Calendar

Code is compiling rather quickly today....blast!

[Xeon]

Re: Defcon 18 Schedule as Google Calendar

I was hoping that it wouldn't have to come down to parsing the HTML, but I agree that it could be done -- albeit with a little more data "hand-holding" than I'd prefer...

Let me know how you fare tomorrow, I'm completely distracted with SL4A tonight. :D

Well, as of now, it is all we have. I'm excited for an excuse to just write some PERL. Been doing the c++ thing for far too long. I'm not even able to go to DC this year, so I need to make my own fun instead.

[Voltage Spike]

Re: Defcon 18 Schedule as Google Calendar

You may want to check with those that have done this before.

Search for "ical" on the forums to find a lot more talk about the subject.

[treefort]

Re: Defcon 18 Schedule as Google Calendar

I was hoping that it wouldn't have to come down to parsing the HTML, but I agree that it could be done -- albeit with a little more data "hand-holding" than I'd prefer...

Let me know how you fare tomorrow, I'm completely distracted with SL4A tonight. :D

[Xeon]

Re: Defcon 18 Schedule as Google Calendar

I don't know how regular of a format you want, but the main schedule page is fairly regular in its formatting.

There is a span with class="time" and the time in 24hr format.
Then, for each room, there is a list item, the name of the room is in an h5 tag (which also has the hr tag in it). Then an anchor tag, with the class "schedTitle" (the title of the talk). That is followed by the description and "Until: XX:XX" indicating the end time right before the attribute icons, then the close list item.

Repeat for each event at that time, then close the unordered list.

A simple PERL script could turn this all into delimited data. If compiling takes long enough tomorrow, I will try to write one up then and post the results here.

<ul class="scheduleRoom"><h2 class="title">Friday Speaking Schedule</h2><hr><br>
	<span class="time">10:00</span>
    <hr>
    <li><h5>Track 1<hr></h5> <a class="schedTitle" href="dc-18-speakers.html#Keynote">Keynote</a><br> Top Secret<br> Until: 10:50</li>          
        <li><h5>Track 2<hr></h5> <a class="schedTitle" href="dc-18-speakers.html#Vixie">SIE Passive DNS and the ISC DNS Database</a><br> Paul Vixie<br> Until: 10:50<br>

<img class="schedIcon" src="../../images/defcon-18/demo-icon.png" title="demo">  
<img class="schedIcon" src="../../images/defcon-18/xploit-icon.png" title="exploit">
</li>          
        <li><h5>Track 3<hr></h5> <a class="schedTitle" href="dc-18-speakers.html#Hofmann">How To Get Your FBI File (and Other Information You Want From the Federal Government)</a><br>Marcia Hofmann <br>Until: 10:50  </li>          
        <li><h5>Track 4<hr></h5>
		<a class="schedTitle" href="dc-18-speakers.html#Grand">Welcome and Making the DEF CON 18 Badge</a><br>Dark Tangent, Joe Grand<br>
        Until: 11:50<br>

		</li>         
        <li><h5>Track 5<hr></h5> <a class="schedTitle" href="dc-18-speakers.html#PaneloCTF">oCTF: 5 years in 50 minutes</a><br>Panel <br> Until: 10:50</li>      
</ul>

[incudie]

Re: Defcon 18 Schedule as Google Calendar

I'm not willing the spend the time to input the data, but I would love to take advantage of the calendar if it's made =)

[treefort]

I'd like to create a Google Calendar that lists all the talks and events at Defcon so I can sync it up with the calendar on my phone. I'd imagine many of you would also find this useful, so I'd be glad to make the calendar public and share the URL.

It's a little too much data to transpose by hand, but if someone has the schedule in a delimited format, I could write a script to parse/convert it.

Oh, and does this already exist?