Exporting event data into a JSON feed

[Roseanne Souza]

Hello,
Our client has a new mobile APP that contains the same information for their events as the website will (once we build the new website).
In order to simplify updating both the website and the APP (which we do now), we were hoping to export the event data from The Events Calendar (or the PRO version) into a JSON feed that can feed the same data into the APP, so our client doesn’t have to update the events on both systems which currently don’t talk to each other. If we can’t give the APP developers a JSON feed (which is what they have asked for), what can we give them?

Thanks for your help.
Roseanne

[Brook]

Howdy Roseanna,

That’s a great question. WP is building a JSON API and plans to add it to an upcoming version of WordPress. Once they do that we have talked about setting up our calendar so events can be easily exported through this. But until then we do not have a solution for exporting events via JSON. One could certainly be built using our current API, but nothing is already built.

Events are already exportable via XML using WP’ Export tool. This could be automated with a cron script. Further they are also published via RSS by default automatically, an it’s trivially easy to add any extra data elements to the RSS feed as outlined here. Finally, they are also exportable via iCal.

Would one of those options work?

Cheers!

– Brook

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