Questions regarding the event aggregator

[David]

Hello, I was interested in the event aggregator and had the following questions:

Currently, we are monitoring several events by manually checking Facebook which is not efficient. The website states that the Event Aggregator will do this for us by automatically pulling in the events from the pages we select into an event calendar.

1. What is the difference between the Event Aggregator vs the Calender?
2. Is it public or private?
3. Can it auto-populate from 100+ sites (ex. Facebook) when any of the sites post new events (ex. When it is posted and updated)
4. Do we have to be following the sites we want to pulled?
5. We can manually import the URL for the site however we want to product to manual check it each day for us for updates.
6. Is customizable for the types of the event want to be pulled?
7. We would only need one license however we need it to be able to pull from 200+ sites.

Thank you!

[Jennifer]

Hi David,

Thanks for checking out Event Aggregator!

The Events Calendar, which is one of our free plugins that is required for Event Aggregator to run, is a calendar plugin for your site that lets you create events on your site (from the admin section) and display them with different views on your site. Event Aggregator is a service (it’s not actually a plugin that you install on your site) that pulls from various sources (like Facebook) to automatically create/update events in The Events Calendar.

You can choose the status you want events to be set to once they’re created (draft, published, etc), so they don’t need to be visible on your public calendar right away. The calendar and published events are public by default, but if you wanted to hide it or make a members-only type calendar, you could do so with some customizations (see this article for more info).

Event Aggregator does not monitor the sources to auto-import changes whenever they are made, but you can schedule imports to import from sources whenever you would like. Regarding import limits, this depends on the license that you go with. For example the personal license allows you up to 100 scheduled imports per day, or you could also go with the Community license for 200 scheduled imports or the Event Hub for 1000 scheduled imports.

You do not need to be following sites to be able to import from them, but the events do need to be public (such as on Facebook) for Event Aggregator to be able to access them (see this article for more info).

Regarding customizing the types of Events that you want to pull in, you can set the date range to import from and the number of events that you want to import.

I would recommend taking a look at the following articles for more info on how Event Aggregator works and what types of options it comes with:

Managing Your Scheduled Imports in Event Aggregator

Event Aggregator Import Settings

How Do Event Aggregator’s Import Limits Work?

Importing Events from a Feed or URL

We also offer full refunds within 30 days of purchase, so feel free to take it for a test run! Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Thanks,

Jennifer

[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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