Add .ics files to google calendar from chrome/chromium
Some event web pages have links to let you add the event to your calendar.
They use a variety of techniques to do so.
When I click on, for example, Great American Sing-along, which seems
related to the ActiveDataExchange product, using Chrome, it just offers to
download a file "adecalendar.ics". Firefox offers the same option, and
also offers to let me open the file with an app of my choosing, but only
shows emacs as an option. And kitchen-sink though it may be, by default
emacs doesn't seem to do any magic with .ics files ;)
I know that if I save it to a file, and go to
https://www.google.com/calendar I can import a .ics file, but that
involves a lot of frustrating steps.
So how can I just get a one- or two-click method of adding this to my
google calendar?
Note that if the web site offers the calendar via a "webcal:" protocol, it
is possible to configure a protocol handler so that gets passed off to the
google calendar site, as documented at Google Calendar as default handler
of webcal protocol for iCal/ICS files.
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