Technically, there is lots that should be possible to do here. I used to run an events tech listing site and we had an export/share box with various feeds, fil

Technically, there is lots that should be possible to do here. I used to run an events tech listing site and we had an export/share box with various feeds, filtered or otherwise. We heard anecdotally that many people just imported whole feeds, in ical or rss formats. One company used to pick events into their company calendar and we had a "add" button that worked just fine for them. There is a comment about commercial interests - that can be one problem. I said "anecdotally" because it's pretty impossible to get accurate usage figures with a lot of this stuff. I decided that counted as a minor inconvenience for my use case and did it anyway as I thought it was the right thing to do. But I can see in some companies that would be a hard sell. I suspect that's why some people end up with "Give us write access to your google account!" solutions. (I always say no.) > Why can’t I just click a button and follow all the local events for my favorite artist/venue/team/theater/charity? Having moved on from the tech listing site, I've now got a side project that is trying to do just this. It's at https://www.theoccasionoctopus.net/ https://www.theoccasionoctopus.net/ I don't know whether to sell it as like Twitter for events? Basically you follow accounts that interest you, these accounts promote events they thing are interesting, any you also think are interesting you can copy to your own account/calendar. I'm working on it slowly but it's already useful for me, so that's fine and I'll just carry on. But the real problem here is getting people to publish any kind of structured data on event listings. There was one event organiser I used to follow; they had events with schema.org markup on their site. It wasn't to hard for me to write a small Python scraper bot that got the events and added them to an account/calendar in my app via it's API. But then they redesigned the site and lost the schema.org markup! I actually know the dev team on this site so I kept asking them to put the schema.org markup back but they never did. It went on their backlog and I guess just never became important enough. There are some other event apps working on the same kinda thing as me and I support any of them that have open data feeds - anything to show people there is value to providing open data feeds is good.