lunar-birthday-ical 0.3.2

A command line tool written in Python 3 for creating lunar birthday events

lunar-birthday-ical

What is this?

A command line tool written in Python 3 for creating lunar birthday events.

lunar-birthday-ical reads a YAML configuration file and generates an iCalendar .ics file. Optionally, it can upload the calendar to pastebin for easy subscription. For an example configuration file, refer to config/example-lunar-birthday.yaml. The comments should be sufficient to explain the meaning of each option.

You can use the -h or --help option to view the command-line tool's help information.

$ lunar-birthday-ical -h
usage: lunar-birthday-ical [-h] [-L YYYY MM DD | -S YYYY MM DD] [config.yaml ...]

Generate iCal events and reminders for lunar birthday and cycle days.

positional arguments:
  config.yaml           config file for iCal, checkout config/example-lunar-birthday.yaml for example.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -L YYYY MM DD, --lunar-to-solar YYYY MM DD
                        Convert lunar date to solar date, add minus sign before leap lunar month.
  -S YYYY MM DD, --solar-to-lunar YYYY MM DD
                        Convert solar date to lunar date.

Installation

It is recommended to use pipx to install command-line tools written in Python, including this project.

$ pipx install lunar-birthday-ical
  installed package lunar-birthday-ical {{ version }}, installed using Python 3.11.2
  These apps are now globally available
    - lunar-birthday-ical
done! ✨ 🌟 ✨

About pastebin

In the YAML configuration file, you can choose whether to upload the generated .ics file to pastebin. This pastebin instance is a Cloudflare worker-based pastebin service (SharzyL/pastebin-worker) run by the repository owner.

If pastebin (pastebin.enabled) is enabled, you can leave pastebin.name and pastebin.password in the YAML configuration file empty on the first run. After executing the command, it will automatically upload, and upon successful upload, retrieve the pastebin.name and pastebin.password from the admin field in the lunar_birthday_ical.pastebin log line in the standard output (pastebin.name and pastebin.password are split with :, as shown in the output below with XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY). Manually fill these into the configuration file. This way, on subsequent executions, it will only update the existing URL instead of re-uploading, thus keeping the URL unchanged and avoiding the need to update the calendar URL.

$ lunar-birthday-ical config/example-lunar-birthday.yaml
[2025-02-08 15:37:54,747][lunar_birthday_ical.ical][INFO] iCal file saved to config/example-lunar-birthday.ics
[2025-02-08 15:37:57,097][lunar_birthday_ical.pastebin][INFO] {'url': 'https://komj.uk/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX', 'suggestUrl': 'https://komj.uk/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/example-lunar-birthday.ics', 'admin': 'https://komj.uk/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY', 'isPrivate': True, 'expire': 604800}