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Shabbat full event time calendar export

Moshe 3 years ago 0

can you add an option to have shabbat and other yomim tovim as a feel event, aka the shabbat event starts at 4.30 pm Friday afternoon and ends 530 pm Saturday night, as opposed to the current system where the start time and end time are separate events 

I am trying to automate my home shabbat mode based shabbat and yom tov times (so my motion detectors dont turn on lights on shabbos etc) and need the entire shabbat time blocked out

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2 questions that are important for me to know about api rest for Shabbat times

Mmf 3 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago 3

1) Is it constant that in set 0 it is candle lighting and in set 2 it is Shabbat departure?


Array

(

[title] => Hebcal Jerusalem January 2021

[date] => 2021-01-17T13:08:58.174Z

[location] => Array

(

[title] => Jerusalem, Israel

[city] => Jerusalem

[tzid] => Asia/Jerusalem

[latitude] => 31.76904

[longitude] => 35.21633

[cc] => IL

[country] => Israel

[admin1] => Jerusalem

[geo] => geoname

[geonameid] => 281184

)

[items] => Array

(

[0] => Array

(

[title] => Candle lighting: 16:22

[date] => 2021-01-22T16:22:00+02:00

[category] => candles

[title_orig] => Candle lighting

[hebrew] => הדלקת נרות

)

[1] => Array

(

[title] => Parashat Bo

[date] => 2021-01-23

[category] => parashat

[hebrew] => פרשת בא

[leyning] => Array

(

[1] => Exodus 10:1 - 10:11

[2] => Exodus 10:12 - 10:23

[3] => Exodus 10:24 - 11:3

[4] => Exodus 11:4 - 12:20

[5] => Exodus 12:21 - 12:28

[6] => Exodus 12:29 - 12:51

[7] => Exodus 13:1 - 13:16

[torah] => Exodus 10:1-13:16

[haftarah] => Jeremiah 46:13 - 46:28

[maftir] => Exodus 13:14 - 13:16

)

[link] => https://www.hebcal.com/sedrot/bo-20210123?i=on&utm_source=js&utm_medium=api

)

[2] => Array

(

[title] => Havdalah: 17:42

[date] => 2021-01-23T17:42:00+02:00

[category] => havdalah

[title_orig] => Havdalah

[hebrew] => הבדלה

)

)

)

2) Is it regular that I access the link https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat?cfg=json&geo=city&city=IL-Jerusalem so he will show me the details of the upcoming Shabbat that week that I access the link?


I would love to get an answer soon. Thanks

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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!


1) Is it constant that in set 0 it is candle lighting and in set 2 it is Shabbat departure?

No. When there are other holidays such as Rosh Chodesh or Pesach or Purim, these will also be present in the items array.

For Shabbat candle-lighting, you must loop through items array, looking for an item that has category == candles and a date that is on Friday.

For Havdalah, you must loop through items array, looking for an item that has category == havdalah and a date that is on Saturday.

2) Is it regular that I access the link https://www.hebcal.com/shabbat?cfg=json&geo=city&city=IL-Jerusalem so he will show me the details of the upcoming Shabbat that week that I access the link?

Yes, that URL will work correctly every week, regardless of when you access it during the week. On Sunday at 00:00 (midnight) it will refresh to the new week's events.

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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

Here are instructions on how to create a custom calendar with candle-lighting times for your city and then download to modern versions of Outlook via an Internet Calendar Subscription:

https://www.hebcal.com/home/8/outlook-ics-jewish-holidays

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French Translation of hebrew date

Rina Cohen Skalli 3 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago 2

Hi, 
I want t change the translation of hebrew date in French. 

It's doesn't mean anything 15eme Tevet. But 15 Tevet, How can I do that please? 
Thank you, 

Rina 

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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

Thanks for using Hebcal, and thanks for the feedback about the ordinal number suffixes for French numbers. We are not native French speakers, so we were using some software written by others. I apologize that it doesn't make sense.

We will plan to make changes to the Hebcal site to remove the meaningless suffix sometime in the coming week.

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Editing/deleting

Michaelv 3 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago 1

Is it possible to edit/delete questions/suggestions/etc. without leaving and registering again?

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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

We're using UserEcho for support and feedback. Here are instructions for how to use UserEcho:

https://support.userecho.com/

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Festival date\s and spelling

Michaelv 3 years ago updated by Swayer Scott 3 years ago 2

It's possible to find the dates of festivals in specific years and series of years, - eg. Chanukah 1932, Chanukah 5691, Chanukah 2000-2010, Chanukah 2010-2020 - via Google but not your search box even after I'd changed from the normal Israeli transliteration of  Hanukkah to your spalling. Why doesn't your search box find information which is on your site?.

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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal. We're sorry to hear that our search box isn't working as well as it should.


You can find a summary of the spelling of holiday names here

https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/

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months missing from hebcal

mayer 3 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago 1

2018 is missing January, 2019 is missing January and February, as is

2020, 2021 is again missing January, and 2022 is missing Jan & Feb

....

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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

Hi, thanks for using Hebcal!

If you uncheck some options such as Rosh Chodesh, there will indeed be Gregorian months where no Jewish holidays occur.

To set your custom calendar options, go to https://www.hebcal.com/hebcal


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Shabbat times are different then chabad.org times

chaim 3 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago 1

I noticed that the shabbat times are a bit different the those times on chabad.org

why is that? and is there a way to input which minhag you want the times to display via the REST API?

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Link to Yahrzeit page from home page is broken

joelbaron 3 years ago updated by Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago 1
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Michael J. Radwin 3 years ago

Thanks for the note - should be fixed now!