mbaker3 / ics-cleaner

Strip VALERT blocks from `.ics` files

ics-cleaner

Cleans up *.ics files to your liking.

• Remove VALARM blocks so your calendar application doesn't try to copy all of the notifications of the source event.
  • This is particularly helpful when importing event invites into calendar applications that don't ignore the defined notifications (Looking at you iCalendar...)

...That's about it until I hit more pain points adding *.ics files to iCalendar.

Dependencies

• pyinstaller

Install

• make init

Build

• make build
  • Will build to dist/

Setup

• Copy the build application into your system's Application folder

Bonus: Configure .ics files to clean and open by default

Create an Automator application that:

1. Receives files and folders as input
2. Opens the items with ics-cleaner.app
3. Opens the items with Calendar.app

Resources

• iCalendar Wikipedia