Create Kirby content from facebook events

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Hello,
How to create Kirby content from Facebook events?

A client wants to be able to automate the creation of a page inside his kirby website when he creates a facebook event. Do you think it could be done? How?

Thanks

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I have never done that, but the Facebook Graph API could be a good starting point.

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yes, and the part related to events is here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/event/

But how do you think we could automate the importation of this events on the Kirby side?

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The simplest way would be to use a Cronjob that runs every few hours. If you need to create the Kirby page instantly, you could alternatively create a Panel widget with a button that manually runs the script to fetch the events.

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Ok thanks @lukasbestle
So a cronJob can use the facebook api and create a text file to populate kirby?
Is that it?

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Well, no. A Cronjob can only call an arbitrary script. You need to develop that script of course.

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ok I understand.
a php script using facebook API is called by the cron job and creates Kirby content.
Thanks a lot

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Exactly.

One hint: The script can use the $pages->create() method, which will create the pages for you.