Aggregator

[Neil]

I have been informed that you have an aggregator add-on which will soon be released. Would you be willing to explain what features it will add to the calendar? And what approximate cost it will be?

Thank you
Neil

[Brook]

Howdy Neil,

It would be my pleasure to assist with this.

You might be interested in our blog post, which dives into a few details:

https://theeventscalendar.com/a-look-at-whats-coming-in-our-4-3-release/

The cliff notes version is that it:

• Adds the ability to import from Meetup.com
• Scales better when importing lots of events
• Brings all of the functionality from iCal Importer to importing Facebook Events
• Has a much improved system for regularly importing events, and setting certain events to be ignored from future imports

And a lot more. It’s a brand new plugin for us, but it’s based on the iCal Importer. Our goal was to combine all of our importer that we could into one new service. Also of import is that the heavy lifting, what caused a lot low cost servers to be unable to mass import events, is now handled by the TheEventsCalendar.com server and then privately forwarded on to your site. No even details are kept on our server so it’s as private as can be.

It will be available in October. If everything goes according to plan very early in October. Likely priced around the same price as other large plugins such as Events Calendar Pro and Filter Bar.

Does that answer your questions? Does it does like what you’re looking for?

Cheers!

– Brook

[Neil]

Was not able to reply to your email as a noreply address was used – so retuned to TEC forums to continue… Thank you for your help… Neil
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Thank you, Brook. I found your explanations very useful.

I also need to add Eventbrite events (local to me), preferably in an automated or semi-automated way to a community calendar. What tools and technology does TEC have available (or soon to be available) which I can use to make that possible?

As a TEC ambassador and user, I do not want to go elsewhere for a solution. I really hope you have something I can use!

Cordially,
Neil

[Brook]

Howdy Neil,

Thanks for posting back here. That noreply email is sent from our forums, it is just notifying you of a new forum reply.

Eventbrite is getting an update as well in 4.3. Since Evenbrite is specifically for syncing events, it even creates them on the separate Eventbrite website, it is not going to be integrated into our aggregator. It will continue to exist as a separate plugin. But its import features are getting updates alongside Event Aggregator. 4.3 will see a few of those folded in, and a future update will see the rest.

So yes, we will continue to have a solution for you. It sounds like you will want two licenses going forward: Event Aggregator and Eventbrite. You can purchase Eventbrite today if you need. If you’d like to beta test EA for free let me know and I can hook you up with that. The beta will work until 4.3 is officially released.

Cheers!

– Brook

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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