Publish meal planner as iCal Calendar

[cashpw]

Before submitting this feature request I have
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• Reviewed the documentation and verified that my feature request isn't already a feature.
• Reviewed the existing feature requests and my feature has not been requested.
• Checked the tasks taged issues and verified my feature is not covered

Please Describe The Problem To Be Solved

Users can only access their planned meals from within Mealie.

(Optional): Suggest A Solution

Publish the Meal Planner as an iCal for importing into Google Calendar, etc. See comments 1, 2, 3.

Additional Information

• If the feature is accepted I'm willing to submit a PR to provide this feature

[hay-kot]

Heck yeah!

FYI, you might have an easier time doing this with the next-branch given the rewrite of the data structure for meal-plans. I think we're about 1-2 months from a Release Candidate so up to you on where you want to do the work.

[cashpw]

I'd prefer to work with the new branch. I'll take a look and see what I can put together. A few questions:

1. Is the next branch mealie-next?
2. Is there anything akin to a hook for database/api operations? My first thought was to trigger a "update the iCal file" function whenever the user updates the planner.

[cashpw]

Notes for myself:

• The icalendar extension seems applicable here.
• Don't bother limiting the date range at first -- show everything in the meal planner as this is what users would expect.

[bastantoine]

Hello @cashweaver! Have you started with this issue/plan on doing it in the near future, or can I tackle it?

[cashpw]

I'd welcome your tackling the issue. I've become incredibly busy recently.

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[I3lackshirts]

@bastantoine @cashpw Has there been any progress on this? I was starting to go down the mealie direction but one of the key features I am looking for is something that can integrate with Home Assistants calendar and/or iCal. Everything has been great with Mealie so far but I think this would be a great feature to make better use of my HA calendar.

[aureateflux]

I'd like this, but if possible: add direct caldav support (in the form of allowing us to enter the credentials for a specific caldav server and being able to publish directly to that).

Caldav servers usually support importing events via iCal, but being able to directly update would be good!

[btoconnor]

I was just about to submit my own Feature Request for this and found this using the search. Having the ability to export the Meal Plan in some form of calendar would be amazing. We're running into limitations where we want to start showing the calendar on some home dashboard screens, but the integrations don't exist for mealie - they only exist for regular calendars.

[boc-the-git]

This is a feature we'd accept into Mealie, as indicated by hay-kot when it was first raised.
If anyone wants to raise a PR, please do.
Any technical discussion/help needed, please jump in the Discord for the easiest support.

[hay-kot]

Here's some general notes on how this should get implemented

1. Needs to support timezone selection per group, can default to timezone from machine.
2. Needs to support setting the event time (hours/minutes) for each meal plan type (Dinner, Lunch, etc...), so the user can decide when they show up on the calendar
3. Needs to support note types
4. Should have a link back to the recipe
5. Should support filter meaplans by type to exclude notes, or breakfast from the calendar.

You could likely use this library https://github.com/ics-py/ics-py or an eq.

The endpoint would have to be unsecured so we'd also likely need to generate a random token to use in the URL to at least attempt to keep to information private.

[Cronocide]

Here's a little Google Apps Script I run to sync my Mealie calendar to Google Calendar via their API, if anyone else needs such a thing while iCal support is in the backlog.