Import custom XML from REST API

[Joerg]

Hi there,

we’re planning to use the Event Aggretator (Import Bundle) to import roundabout 100k single events, at least on an daily schedule.

1. Can handle the import and the calendar this amount of events? (How about the needed dimensions for the web server & database to get a good performance?)

2. We can deliver categories, grouped events (let’s say e.g. all the movies at the Canne Movie Festival, related by ID to it’s parent grouped-event), districts, cities, venue locations and the single event all by a REST API in custom XML format. (There are no relations between the different data types, except for grouped-events)

2.1. Which of these data types can be imported and is it possible to map our xml structures to the calendar fields by configuration?

[Cliff]

Hi, Joerg. Thanks for your interest in our plugin suite.

Our Event Aggregator has different license levels for the number of imports to run, not the number of events to be imported.

For example, 3 iCal URLs, each with 100 events, would count as 3 of your allowed imports per day, not as 300.

The predecessor(s) to Event Aggregator (EA) were plugins that ran on each customer’s web server, which was cause for quite a few issues due to poor performance hosting. EA’s code is actually built in to the free/core The Events Calendar plugin (you just input your license key to activate its functionality), and the actual processing (e.g. fetching events from an iCal URL) is now handled by our site. So it’s sort of a SaaS product, actually. To answer your question, yes, it’s a highly-performant server setup.

EA allows you to set a category upon import, but it also imports/creates the categories that an event already has from the iCal event.

We just recently released support for read-only in the REST API. Therefore, at this time, there’s not currently support to “write” via the REST API, but it is expected eventually.

Last but not least, we have a pretty great Refund Policy so you can buy one or many of our add-ons and thoroughly test them.

I hope this info helps. Let me know if you have any follow-up questions.

[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

[Courtney]

Hey there

Just posting a quick update that we’ve just launched The Events Calendar – Full REST Support. You can read the release notes at https://theeventscalendar.com/release-events-calendar-full-rest-support/.

We also published a helpful guide: Introduction to The Events Calendar REST API https://theeventscalendar.com/knowledgebase/introduction-events-calendar-rest-api/ .

We’re excited to provide this functionality for you.

Thanks
Courtney 🙂

[Author]

Posts