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Check-ins not showing in Google Calendar
I added my ICS feed to my Google Calendar a couple of days ago. It seemed to work OK, but none of my check-ins (past or new) are showing up. Any ideas?
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Inappropriate?Yes, we have a problem where google calendar is not pulling things in because of a robots.txt file we adding to keep this data out of search engines. I'm working on getting ahold of someone @ google to see how we can allow things to work with gcal, but not be indexed by the google search engine.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the quick reply and the info. I'm keen to use the ICS feed in GCal as my calendar seems a good place to keep track of where I've been and when, but I don't use Outlook anymore. What's the best way to keep informed of a fix?
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Inappropriate?I'm using it in iCal on my mac and it's broken there too. Gives the error message "not found." -
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Inappropriate?Hi Harry, I use ICS feeds from a couple of other services in Google Calendar. I asked Toodledo the question and the answer is below. I would like to be able to use a Foursquare ICS feed for GCal despite the risk of search engine crawling. Thanks.
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Could you please explain to me from a technical perspective, how it is possible for you (Toodledo) to set up an ICS feed that Google Calendar can read, but not have search engines crawl it?
It seems as though the standard way of using a robots.txt file would break GCals ability to read the feed.
Thanks,
John
Posted on Jan 26, 2010 10:57 by Toodledo:
It isn't possible. If you setup an ICS feed for Google Calendar, anyone can read it, including search engines. It is not encrypted or password protected in any way. We make this clear on the ICS setup page on this website by saying:
"In order to do this, we need to publish your tasks without password protection. This means that it might be possible for someone besides you to read your tasks. Keep the following URL a secret if you don't want that to happen."1 Comment Add a comment
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Hey John,
Just to keep you updated we are actively talking with Google about how we can make this work. While you personally would be ok with a search engine indexible calendar, I'm sure you can understand that some foursquare users probably wouldn't be. If we have to we will make this a user setting, but we hope to find a way to work with google so that it's not indexible but is importable by google calendar. I use this feature myself so I very very very much want to get it working again. Hopefully soon!
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Inappropriate?Another option would be to do what Reqall does (http://www.reqall.com/webnew/calendar...) which is to create items directly within the user's own Google Calendar, rather than a separate additional calendar.1 Comment Add a comment
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Personally, I want the 4SQ checkins in a separate calendar so that I can toggle that calendar on and off as needed. (I'm a super-active Foursquarer, so my checkins can easily overtake my main calendar!)
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Inappropriate?Ugh.. Hopefully this gets fixed soon. I was really starting to enjoy seeing my checkins on the calendar
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Inappropriate?Hi Harry, while you're working with Google on a solution to this, could you not give people the option to enable or disable their feeds, with a clear warning that if they enable their feeds, there's a possibility the feed could be crawled by a search engine?
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Inappropriate?A temporary solution until FourSquare and Google work out something better:
(requires that you're a Mac user with MobileMe)
1. Add the ICS feed to your iCal calendar
2. Publish the resulting iCal calendar via MobileMe
3. add THAT ICS feed to Google Calendar
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