Portuguese translation of API
Is there any plan for translating the information into Portuguese? I saw that there are couple of other languages (Russian, Spanish, et cetera) and I think having the API translated to Portuguese could be beneficial to Brazilian Jewish community, as one of the biggest outside Israel.
I searched across github repository and found some .po files. I do not know if I can start translating and than send one .po file (to be honest I do not know exactly what those files are).
To conclude, I can be a volunteer translating to Portuguese if there is no planing or any special group doing this job, as I am a Portuguese native speaker.
Thank you for your attention and maintain hebcal,
Pedro
Hi, thanks for the generous offer! We'd love your help to offer a Portuguese transliteration.
You can use a tool like Poedit to create the translation file https://poedit.net/
We suggest you download a file like the Spanish language translation, and rename it "pt.po" and then make your edits there. Once you've finished, you can email the file to webmaster@hebcal.com and we will incorporate it into the website within a few days.
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hebcal/hebcal-locales/master/po/es.po
Do y'all have a molad calendar option?
I would love to have Kiddush levanah in my calendar, do y'all have that as an option somewhere?
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.
Can you check your candle lighting times and confirm you are using 18 minutes before sundown? This is the Hebcal default but you may have set it to another value, for example 38 minutes before sundown.
Links to pages for joint parashot broken
When you try to go to the sedrah page for joint parashot (Behar-Behukotai, Achrei Mot-Kedoshim, Matot-Masei, etc) you get an error page that says, "Error 500. Cannot read property 'match' of undefined."
Thanks for the bug report! The problem has been fixed now. We're very sorry for the inconvenience.
Cannot subscribe error in iPhone
Hi,
I tried downloading the events for an iPhone, and it worked in one phone, but another phone I get this error:
Create a query to determine whether today is yomtov or shabbat
Hi, We're making a process in Zapier that needs to abort if it's yomtov to avoid sending out messages when it isn't appropriate. Is there a way to generate RSS or JSON which we can then parse with Zapier to see whether today is yomtov? At the moment I can only see ways to generate lists for a whole month or year?
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal.
You should be able to do this using our Jewish Calendar API by setting the start and end parameters to be today's date in YYYY-MM-DD format, and setting maj=on for only major holidays. Then, you'll need to see if items is empty - and if it's not, check to see if the object inside contains yomtov: true.
For example, here's the second day of Pesach in the Diaspora:
http://hebcal.com/hebcal?cfg=json&v=1&maj=on&leyning=off&start=2021-03-29&end=2021-03-29
{
"title": "Hebcal Diaspora March 2021",
"date": "2021-02-08T00:07:43.224Z",
"location": {
"geo": "none"
},
"items": [
{
"title": "Pesach II",
"date": "2021-03-29",
"category": "holiday",
"subcat": "major",
"yomtov": true,
"hebrew": "פסח יום ב׳",
"link": "https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/pesach-2021?utm_source=js&utm_medium=api",
"memo": "Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Also called Chag HaMatzot (the Festival of Matzah), it commemorates the Exodus and freedom of the Israelites from ancient Egypt"
}
]
And here's an example of non-yomtov - Chol haMoed Sukkot
http://hebcal.com/hebcal?cfg=json&v=1&maj=on&leyning=off&start=2021-09-24&end=2021-09-24
{
"title": "Hebcal Diaspora September 2021",
"date": "2021-02-08T00:11:48.425Z",
"location": {
"geo": "none"
},
"items": [
{
"title": "Sukkot IV (CH''M)",
"date": "2021-09-24",
"category": "holiday",
"subcat": "major",
"hebrew": "סוכות יום ד׳ (חול המועד)",
"link": "https://www.hebcal.com/holidays/sukkot-2021?utm_source=js&utm_medium=api",
"memo": "Feast of Booths"
}
]
}
If you pick a day that has no major holidays, you'll get an empty items array:
http://hebcal.com/hebcal?cfg=json&v=1&maj=on&leyning=off&start=2021-06-01&end=2021-06-01
{
"title": "Hebcal Diaspora 2021",
"date": "2021-02-08T00:13:45.611Z",
"location": {
"geo": "none"
},
"items": []
}
multiple (100’s) of the same yahzeit
On my iPhone, how do I stop having multiple (100’s) of the same yahzeit event listed each anniversary? Is there an update that I can install?
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal, and sorry to hear you're having trouble with your yahrzeit calendar on iPhone.
Could you send us the Yahrzeit calendar subscription URL for debugging via private message? We'd love to investigate further on our server-side to see what's causing the problem.
To remove the Yahrzeit calendar completely, you can follow these instructions:
Hebcal is correct.
When the actual date of Yom Hashoah falls on a Friday, the state of Israel observes Yom Hashoah on the preceding Thursday. When it falls on a Sunday, Yom Hashoah is observed on the following Monday. In the United States, Days of Remembrance runs from the Sunday before Yom Hashoah through the following Sunday.
2021 Thursday, April 8
https://www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance/resources/calendar
last year's Hebcal Jewish holidays, Torah readings etc. disappeared from my calendar - how to restore?
I subscribe and have Hebcal's Jewish holidays, Torah portions, etc. downloaded on iCal (Mac and iPhone). I just noticed that, at the beginning of 2021, data from all previous calendar years disappeared from my phone and Mac. I have my phone set to sync all events, not just recent events, so it's not my settings. I don't recall this having happened in past years. How do I fix this? Even though the past data is past, there are times when it would be convenient to go back to this info. Obviously there are other online sources, including Hebcal, to look up dates for previous years' Jewish holidays, Torah portions, etc., but having it on the calendar is convenient.
Hi, thanks for using Hebcal - and sorry to hear about this inconvenience.
Our perpetual feeds are deliberately kept small to let calendar apps run more quickly.
If you'd like to see past year(s) events for historical reference, you can use the "Alternate option" on the download dialog box to get a past year .ics file on your Mac desktop. Then, you can import that into the calendar application of your choice (e.g. the macOS Calendar.app).
This approach lets you have a private copy (not feed) of past calendar events which won't refresh automatically.
Can a 4th download be added. Israel (Triennial).
Can you please add a 4th option to your download - Torah readings for Israel but for triennial readings to your download CSV file. We use the Israeli calendar but we still only read triennial. Now I have to combine the Full Kriyah with the Triennial. It is time consuming and I find I make mistakes.
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