Export iCal calendars with AppleScript

Question

How might I do this? Since the iCal ics files aren't in a neat and tidy place anymore, now I have to export. Can anybody help?
Thanks so much!
-Ben

Answer 1

It's pretty easy as you can just access fields from the iCal database.
If you play with the following, you'll see what I mean. It allows you to pull the data from a given calendar. You can then repurpose that data.
set returned_events to {}
set event_list to {}
tell application "iCal"
    activate
    set the returned_events to every event of calendar 1
    repeat with x from 1 to (count of items in returned_events)
        set the_event to item x of returned_events
        set the_summary to summary of the_event as text
        set the_description to description of the_event as text
        set the_date to the start date of the_event as text
        set holder_list to {}
        set holder_list to {the_date & tab, the_summary & tab, the_description & return}
        copy holder_list to end of event_list
    end repeat
    set the clipboard to event_list as text
end tell
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