Dear Hebcal,

Thank you for providing such a rich, resourceful website and nodejs library.

I was recently informed that my programming project was just published with the Google Assistant ("Hey Google") on the Google Home. Now, everyone in the world can ask for Shabbat times, davening times, food brachot, Hebrew dates, and more. The name of the app is "Jewish Info". Users can say, for example, "Hey Google, ask Jewish Info when Shabbat starts in Los Angeles, CA" and it responds with candle lighting and havdalah times. It is available on every Android phone and iPhone with the Google Assistant app, and also on every Google Home.

Many of the answers are generated using the Hebcal nodejs library. 

Here are some photos of the app in action:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_RoOTbhTpbAJJtcN_SUCpXYK0vskDkTB

Is it possible to include a blurb about this on your homepage? It could say something like:

Hebcal is now available on the Google Assistant. Just ask, "Hey Google, talk to Jewish Info."

Kol tuv,
Josh

I'm testing the API and want to see how the results will look like for different dates or different jewish holidays. Is it possible to request a specific date?

I downloaded Hebcal to my google calendar instead of subscribing. It is now integrated into my main calendar and I can't get rid of it. I would like the dates, but I want to be able to turn them on and off ... right now all I can see is the Hebcal dates and I can't see any of my own appointments. It is a real problem.

Hello, I need to block off all major Jewish holidays and mark them as 'busy'. Now because the holidays start and end on different times I can't just make this a whole day event and mark it as busy. Is there a way to customise your calendar so it will show the exact times of when holidays and shabbat comes in and out and mark the whole time in-between as busy? 

Thank you, 

Shlomo

Is it possible to get in the calendar and in the json file the beginning and end times for the fasts (Purim, First borns,.17 tamuz, 9 Av, Guedalia,10 tebeth)?

thank you for advices 

best regards

Michel Rottenberg

We used to be able to save the calendar with the appropriate dates, make some edits, and add some independent events. Then save this in a different format. We cannot do this now.

This is such a helpful webisite!  I visit it often to get information on Torah Readings.  I am also grateful for the calendar information and the date converter.

In addition to the weekly Shabbat aliyot breakdown, could you please also list the aliyot read on Mondays and Thursdays?  I lost my luach recently, and had trouble figuring out the aliyot read on a recent Monday.   With this information you will make the Torah reading information more comprehensive than it already is. 

Yes, I saw the post (linked below) as "not a bug", but this is an issue, because APIs can look for "Candle lighting" and "Havdalah" (for Shabbat) to do things such as enable and disable devices, and because it isn't listed, those actions will not occur.

Please fix this and display a duplicate time for Havdalah and Candles for that one night a year.

http://hebcal.userecho.com/forums/1-general/topics/134-havdalah-times-missing-when-holiday-is-on-motzei-shabbat/?comment_form_activate=true