Calendar Module - Unable to load Facebook Birthdays

KirAsh4

Ok, I need some testers … this is working for me with a small change in our fetcher code. So, for those willing to try, please following these steps:

Step 1
Navigate to the 'MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/' folder

Step 2
Open the 'calendarfetcher.js' file in your favorite editor and look for the following line and delete it:

ical.fromURL(url, {}, function(err, data) {

Step 3
After deleting that line, in its place you’re going to paste in the following snippet of code:

    var opts = {
        headers: {
            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Node.js 6.0.0) MagicMirror/2.0 (https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror)'
        }
    }
    ical.fromURL(url, opts, function(err, data) {

Please note that very last line, it’s almost identical to the one you deleted. Only one piece changed and you must put that line in as modified above!

Step 4
Save and close the file, and relaunch your MM process.

Step 5
Report back to me.

On my setup, it’s working. I’m getting this in my calendar now. (The names you see are birthdays, I simply have a filter to remove 's birthday' form the string that Facebook returns.)

KirAsh4

Got home, did a full reset on my dev tree, added the above code piece and this is what I get. Waiting on more confirmation from others before I push this up to the main repo.

robbythedude

@KirAsh4 said in Calendar Module - Unable to load Facebook Birthdays:

Ok, I need some testers … this is working for me with a small change in our fetcher code. So, for those willing to try, please following these steps:

Step 1
Navigate to the 'MagicMirror/modules/default/calendar/' folder

Step 2
Open the 'calendarfetcher.js' file in your favorite editor and look for the following line and delete it:
ical.fromURL(url, {}, function(err, data) {
Step 3
After deleting that line, in its place you’re going to paste in the following snippet of code:
    var opts = {
        headers: {
            'User-Agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Node.js 6.0.0) MagicMirror/2.0 (https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror)'
        }
    }
    ical.fromURL(url, opts, function(err, data) {
Please note that very last line, it’s almost identical to the one you deleted. Only one piece changed and you must put that line in as modified above!

Step 4
Save and close the file, and relaunch your MM process.

Step 5
Report back to me.

On my setup, it’s working. I’m getting this in my calendar now. (The names you see are birthdays, I simply have a filter to remove 's birthday' form the string that Facebook returns.)

Made these changes, we are good! Works now :dark_sunglasses: Thank you so much for all the help.

andy952

Doesn’t seem to fix it for me :/

KirAsh4

@andy952, can you send me your calendar link privately and I’ll test it out on my system, see if I find any errors.

pugsly

this fixes the problem for me as well.

squidsmarks

Awesome! Facebook birthdays and events are working again :)
Thanks for your help.

KirAsh4

With the majority of you saying it’s working with the above change, I went ahead and made a pull request against the branch. When @MichMich has time, he’ll review and merge. I’m still waiting to hear from @andy952 to see if there still is a problem.

MichMich

@KirAsh4 Just got back from my holiday. Almost ready to merge your PR. One small issue: see GitHub.

HK

I am not sure if Facebook has revoked the privileges to export the birthday calendar or we had a misunderstanding in this issue discussion.

I went through all suggested changes to make it work for my fb birthday calendar and after spending alot of time, i realized that i can if i add facebook URL as suggested in this article. it shows me events (which i selected to be interested/going) . However, birthday calendar doesn’t shows up on my mirror.

Let me know if i missed anything or guide me to make facebook birthday work for my mirror.

Thanks in advance !!