Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?

Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by IgorPartola on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @04:41PM (#15453275)

Does anyone have a script for integrating with Facebook and grabbing whose birthdays are today? I'd really like to automate it, but this info isn't available via the Graph API, so I kind of gave up on this, but if someone else has done this, I'd love to take a look.

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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by markman3200 on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:32PM (#15453671)

You can export friends' birthdays to an ical feed - see here:

https://www.facebook.com/help/152652248136178/

From there you have a lot of options, but what I did is have it feed into my Google Calendar and read it via the Google Calendar API.

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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by ProZsolt on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:05AM (#15457336)

I had, but ~2 years ago they took out that feature from the graph api :( It sent out bday wishes to my friends automagically.

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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by Jemmeh on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @06:10PM (#15453967)

You can export your friends birthdays to a calendar from the bottom right of the Events page, if that's what you're looking for. It stays updated from there.

https://www.facebook.com/events/

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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by fwn on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @05:25PM (#15453623)

You can get the freely available ical(?) link for your birthday events in the events section. No api necessary beyond the URL.

I used this to integrate it into my Google calendar.

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