# Public ICS Event Calendar Extractor (`s3nafps/public-ics-event-calendar-extractor`) Actor

Extract structured events from public ICS and iCalendar feeds. Get event titles, dates, locations, descriptions, URLs, UIDs, and calendar names as JSON or CSV.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/s3nafps/public-ics-event-calendar-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [mohamed senator](https://apify.com/s3nafps) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$0.30 / 1,000 extracted events

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Public ICS Event Calendar Extractor

Extract structured events from public `.ics` / iCalendar feeds. This Actor turns standards-based public calendars into clean JSON or CSV datasets for researchers, event directories, no-code workflows, and content teams.

### What it extracts

- Calendar URL and calendar name
- Event title
- Description
- Location
- Start date/time
- End date/time
- All-day flag
- UID
- Event URL
- Status
- Clear per-calendar errors

### Example input

```json
{
  "calendarUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics" }],
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxEventsPerCalendar": 20,
  "includeDescriptions": true
}
```

### Output

Each event is saved as one dataset item with fields such as `calendarName`, `eventTitle`, `startDate`, `endDate`, `location`, `uid`, `url`, and `calendarUrl`.

### Limitations

This Actor only uses public ICS/iCalendar URLs. It does not log in, read private calendars, bypass CAPTCHA, or scrape account-protected calendar data. Recurring event expansion is not performed; it extracts VEVENT records as published in the feed.

### Suggested pricing

Pay Per Event. Primary event: extracted calendar event / default dataset item. Suggested launch price: **$0.30 per 1,000 extracted events** plus Apify platform usage costs.

### SEO title

Public ICS Event Calendar Extractor - iCalendar Feed to JSON API

### SEO description

Extract events from public ICS and iCalendar feeds into clean JSON or CSV. Get event titles, dates, locations, descriptions, URLs, UIDs, and calendar names.

# Actor input Schema

## `calendarUrls` (type: `array`):

Public .ics/iCalendar feed URLs to extract events from.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Stops after this many unique events across all calendars.

## `maxEventsPerCalendar` (type: `integer`):

Limits how many events are extracted from each ICS calendar.

## `maxCalendars` (type: `integer`):

Stops after this many unique calendar URLs.

## `includeDescriptions` (type: `boolean`):

Include event descriptions. Turn off for smaller datasets.

## `requestTimeoutSecs` (type: `integer`):

How long to wait for each calendar request before recording an error.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "calendarUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/75/UK_Holidays.ics"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "maxEventsPerCalendar": 5,
  "maxCalendars": 2,
  "includeDescriptions": true,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Open the default dataset in Apify Console. The dataset schema selects a clean table view with the most useful fields first.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "calendarUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/75/UK_Holidays.ics"
        }
    ],
    "maxResults": 10,
    "maxEventsPerCalendar": 5,
    "maxCalendars": 2,
    "includeDescriptions": true,
    "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("s3nafps/public-ics-event-calendar-extractor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "calendarUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics" },
        { "url": "https://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/75/UK_Holidays.ics" },
    ],
    "maxResults": 10,
    "maxEventsPerCalendar": 5,
    "maxCalendars": 2,
    "includeDescriptions": True,
    "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("s3nafps/public-ics-event-calendar-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "calendarUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/76/US_Holidays.ics"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.calendarlabs.com/ical-calendar/ics/75/UK_Holidays.ics"
    }
  ],
  "maxResults": 10,
  "maxEventsPerCalendar": 5,
  "maxCalendars": 2,
  "includeDescriptions": true,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}' |
apify call s3nafps/public-ics-event-calendar-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=s3nafps/public-ics-event-calendar-extractor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/7wnGF29UWuxAnwAjl/builds/PKowRM519Xd8Y1UKH/openapi.json