mawaqit-alexa 1.0.4

A simple mawaqit scraper for creating Calendar events and Alexa integration.

Mawaqit Alexa

A Python library to scrape prayer times from Mawaqit and generate iCalendar (.ics) files for integration with calendar apps and Alexa.

Features

• Scrape prayer times from any mosque on Mawaqit
• Generate iCalendar (.ics) files with prayer time events
• Support for both Arabic and English prayer names
• Configurable alarm notifications before prayer times
• CSV data provider for offline/exported data
• TTL-based caching to avoid excessive requests

Installing

To install the library, you can run the following command:

pip install mawaqit_alexa

Usage

Basic Example

import datetime
import os
from typing import Literal

from mawaqit_alexa.data_provider.scraping_mawaqit_provider import ScrapingMawaqitProvider
from mawaqit_alexa.util.param import Param
from mawaqit_alexa.services.calendar_generator import MawaqitCalendarGenerator

# Configure parameters
Param.ALARM_BEFORE_MINUTES = 15  # Alarm 15 minutes before prayer
Param.SUMMARY_PREFIX = ''  # Optional prefix for event summary

# Set the mawaqit mosque URL
data_url = 'https://mawaqit.net/fr/grande-mosquee-de-paris'

# Fetch prayer times
api_mawaqit_provider = ScrapingMawaqitProvider(data_url)
year_calendar = api_mawaqit_provider.get_current_year_calendar()
mosque_name = api_mawaqit_provider.masjid_endpoint
current_year = datetime.datetime.now().year

# Choose language: 'ar' for Arabic, 'en' for English
language: Literal['ar', 'en'] = 'ar'

# Set output file path
output_file = f'./data/out/{mosque_name}_{language}_{Param.ALARM_BEFORE_MINUTES}_{current_year}.ics'
output_file = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), output_file)

# Create the calendar
MawaqitCalendarGenerator.create_mawaqit_calendar(
    year_calendar=year_calendar,
    year=current_year,
    output_file=output_file,
    time_zone='Europe/Paris',
    language=language
)

Using CSV Data Provider

If you have exported prayer times data from Mawaqit, you can use the CSV provider:

from mawaqit_alexa.data_provider.csv_mawaqit_provider import CsvMawaqitProvider

data_folder = './data/Nantes'
csv_provider = CsvMawaqitProvider(data_folder)
year_calendar = csv_provider.get_current_year_calendar()

Configuration

The Param class allows you to configure:

• ALARM_BEFORE_MINUTES: Minutes before prayer time to trigger an alarm (default: 15)
• SUMMARY_PREFIX: Prefix to add to calendar event summaries (default: '')

License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

Author

Ahmad SAID - GitHub