Automate Local Event Synchronization to Google Calendar
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Effortlessly keep your Google Calendar updated with local events by automating the extraction and syncing process. This workflow fetches event data from public sources and adds them directly to your specified Google Calendar, ensuring you never miss an important community gathering.
About This Workflow
This n8n workflow automates the daily synchronization of local events directly into your Google Calendar. It begins by triggering daily at a set time, then reliably fetches event information from a public event listing website using Bright Data's Web Unlocker to ensure data accessibility. The raw HTML is parsed to extract key details such as event titles, locations, audience, and times. A custom code node then cleans and formats this data, transforming raw time information into a usable format and calculating event start and end times. Finally, the cleaned event data is used to create new events within your Google Calendar, ensuring your schedule is always up-to-date with local happenings.
Key Features
- Daily Automated Syncing: Schedule your event updates to run automatically at a preferred time each day.
- Robust Web Scraping: Leverages Bright Data's Web Unlocker to access and extract data from event websites, overcoming potential blocking.
- Intelligent Data Extraction: Precisely parses HTML to capture event titles, locations, audience information, and times.
- Smart Data Formatting: Cleans and transforms extracted data, including converting time formats to create accurate Google Calendar entries.
- Seamless Google Calendar Integration: Directly creates new events in your Google Calendar with all relevant details.
How To Use
- Set the Schedule Trigger: Configure the
Daily Event Sync Triggernode to run at your desired daily time (e.g., 8:00 AM). - Configure Bright Data: In the
Fetch Event Page (Bright Data)node, replaceAPI_KEYwith your actual Bright Data API key and ensure theurlparameter points to the correct event listing page. - Define HTML Extraction: In the
Extract Event Data (HTML Parser)node, adjust thecssSelectorvalues if the target website's HTML structure changes. Ensure the keys match the expected data fields. - Review Data Cleaning: The
Clean & Format Event Datanode contains JavaScript logic for parsing and formatting. While it's pre-configured for common formats, you may need to adjust theparseTimeToISOfunction if the time format on the source website is significantly different. - Connect Google Calendar: In the
Create Google Calendar Eventsnode, ensure your Google Calendar credentials are set up correctly and thecalendarparameter points to your desired Google Calendar ID (e.g., 'Community Events'). Customize theadditionalFields.descriptionto your preference.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "5fbb43cd-dbe3-4dd2-a29e-13d4826ad497",
"name": "Automate Local Event Synchronization to Google Calendar",
"nodes": 18,
"category": "Operations",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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