Anime Boston Schedule-to-Calendar

This is a script that reads Anime Boston's (AB) schedule page and converts the HTML table (below) into an .ical file.

I found AB's page relatively unhelpful when it came to figuring out what I wanted to actually attend during the convention. This script allows you to import all of the events into a dedicated calendar app (e.g. Google Calendar) and edit them accordingly.

Once the events are imported into your calendar, you can delete events that you're not interested in attending.

This script also imports each event's description from their dedicated panel page, allowing for easy parsing of what the event is without needing to go to each page individually.

Example usage

Anime Boston schedule on their website

gets exported to an .ical file and imported into Google Calendar...

Google Calendar with Anime Boston events imported

after which you can then edit/delete events to your desire

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event descriptions are also imported from their individual panel pages:

Google Calendar event description from https://www.animeboston.com/schedule/video/1489

How to run

Initial setup

• download and install Node v18+
• download pnpm
• install dependencies with pnpm install

Build

• start the watch server with pnpm run watch
  • alternatively just build the script once with pnpm run build
• run the script with node ./dist/index.js