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How can I add TV shows to my Google calendar?

I would like to have the TV shows that I watch added to my Google calendar, complete with the actual air-time for that night, and only for first-run showings.

Where can I find either an iCal-compatible calendar or RSS feed that includes this information?
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wesny | 2 years, 9 months ago
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You can use CAT (Calendar for TV) at http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat/. Create an account and add your shows then click export iCal and import that file into GCal.

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cfinke | 2 years, 9 months ago Report

That's almost exactly what I'm looking for, but it looks like they only include the current day's shows in the calendar. Ideally, I'd like to see the schedule a week in advance (or more).

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wesny | 2 years, 9 months ago Report

You might wan tot try this to put them into google calendar.
How can I generate an ICS for google calendar?
Currently, the link you see on the top bar when logged in to 'Download iCal File', forces your browser to download the iCal to file directly rather than showing the contents of the file in your browser. This is the desired behaviour if you want to import it manually into a calendar program which may not have an import-from-url feature. Unfortunately, the way the file is forced to download (by telling your browser the file is an attachment) is not compatible with google calendar; for some reason, it is unable to read the data (this used to work, strangely).

If you copy the URL given to you from the 'Download iCal File' link and change 'download_ics' to 'generate_ics', you should be able to use the new link within google calendar and most calendar programs with an import-from-url feature. By telling the server to generate the ics rather than download it, the file is sent without an attachment header and can be read correctly by google.

That might allow you to do more than one day in advance. However, I am pretty sure that just the default will allow you to see a weeks tv shows but I may be wrong.

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socalsue | 2 years, 9 months ago
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I was holding out hope that TV.Yahoo would have an option that would at least get you hcalendar from pages using Microformats. Yahoo Search Monkey exploits data published using Microformats. Some Q/A on the developers network gave insight to this type of work being done on uk.tv.yahoo. European entities general adapt to standards a bit ahead of the US, so not too surprising.

I have Operator Microformats toolbar on my browswer. The Events icon lights up when I view a web page with hcalendar information. I viewed TV Guide listings, TV.Yahoo listings and a few others and found no hcalendar data.

You may find the following interesting:
http://developer.yahoo.com/searchmonkey/siteowner.html

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