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Finding the Facebook events ics feed for subscribing or syncing

amr ical events list, How To

I’m not a fan of facebook…..however I get asked the questions, so have had to develop some familiarity, so here’s a quick reference until facebook changes things again.

Before you get too stuck in to facebook for your events,  look at oreilly.com’s advice on perhap not using facebook as the home for your public events.

Finding that public events ics feed in facebook

From a facebook ‘page’

They really do not make it easy do they ?  There is no obvious ‘Export all’ as there is in the personal page.  So…Pretend you’re only exporting one event from your page.

Example fb page
Example Facebook page – events page

Click the event

The facebook events lists, click export.

Click export.

Choose subscribe to all events, or right click and copy the link address

Copy that webcal ics address and use it wherever you need to subscribe to that set of events.

From a personal homepage

After logging in look for the export events option, not just for one event but ALL upcoming events.

Go to your all events page:   https://www.facebook.com/events/list.

Click "Export"In the top right corner, see the little gear icon, click it and click the export option.

 

You should get a popup window.

export facebook ics
export facebook ics

If you just want the url to subscribe to it from another application, right click and ‘copy the link address’. Paste it in to your calendars subscribe url option.

Alternatively if you just click on it, your calendar application should open up and hanlde the subscription process for you.

Use it in the ical events plugin?

facebook in shortcode
facebook in shortcode

Bear in mind that the plugin caches the url’s, so you may need to force a refresh (add ?refresh) to the calendar page url and refresh the page in your browser.

eg:

 

Other possibly useful references:

Want your website events to appear in facebook?

amr ical events list, Notes

This icalendar to event facebook application looks like it would do the trick.  Use amr-events (or any such plugin) to generate a valid ics feed.  Add that to the application and there you should have it – integration from your wordpress events into facebook .

Note: reviews seem to be polarised (very good or very bad), and it does have a lot of users.  Note:   I have found facebook very SLOW to update either way and can imagine this may cause some of the dissatisfaction. That said I am not using this application myself, just thought it might be useful.

Reverse direction?

To go the other way, you need

  1. Activate the plugin
  2. Drop  [events ics=facebookicurl] or [iCal ics=facebookicurl]  into  a page.
  3. Publish!