Shared calendars in iCal

Hi gang,
I have been pottering through the iCal dictionnary and seem to find no way of retrieving the info from a specific calendar regarding the URL on which it is published.
Am I going to have to throw some dreaded GUI scripting at it ?
\sigh
Thanks in advance,
j.

This might keep you away from the dreaded GUI scripting:
The PublicationURL is stored in the info.plist in the folder for the calendar:
(~/Library/Calendars/<caluid>/).
You can get the folder <caluid> name from the uid of the calendar you are interested in and adding ".calendar" to the end.

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