Eventbrite Automation

[PatrickHeneise]

We'd like to automate event creation on Eventbrite via the Eventbrite API.

Necessary input:

• private api token of an organizer (https://www.eventbrite.com/platform/docs/authentication#get-a-private-token)
• organization id
• event data

More information: https://www.eventbrite.com/platform/docs/create-events

We have all the necessary information for the event in the issue payload. Some additional parsing is needed:

• extract an image from the description and set it as header image
• extract speaker info from referenced issues
• extract location information from the locations.json database

Events are only created once "approved". There should be a check if the event already exists and then update it if necessary.

[gmgale]

I would be interested on working on this! 😁 Let me know what you think.

[PatrickHeneise]

@gmgale that'd be much appreciated, thank you! A few pointers to get started:

• currently the only supported action is Discord, which works as a re-usable GitHub Action, so there's nothing in src/index
• you can parse the payload (issue) with @zentered/issue-forms-body-parser (see bodyParser for an example) to get the "answers" from the issue
• https://github.com/nektos/act is great for testing actions locally

[gmgale]

@PatrickHeneise Great, thanks for the info!
For the testing locally, could you give me an example command for the discord workflow please?

[PatrickHeneise]

The discord action is composable and doesn't work by itself but needs to be called from another action, it's a little tricky.

Easier to add a "integration test" action to the repo, see https://github.com/gitevents/ics/blob/main/.github/workflows/main.yml. That can be called with act workflow_dispatch.

[PatrickHeneise]

https://github.com/zentered/issue-forms-body-parser has an "end to end" test action that runs the local code with act and a few other things that could be helpful during development.

[gmgale]

Hi @PatrickHeneise, I must apologise unfortunately an unexpected assignment has come up and is taking a lot of my time.Please feel free to assign this to another contributor. Thank you and sorry again!