April 07, 2006

NEW: Export Eventful Calendars to Yahoo! Calendar

Hot on the heels of our announcement of support for exporting events to Rabble, we're excited to announce we've added support for exporting events to Yahoo! Calendar as well.

So as you surf around Eventful.com and find events you're really interested in, you can save them off to your Yahoo! Calendar if you like. How? Same way as with Rabble: when you're searching or viewing events or calendars or group calendars, wherever you see a plus button or a plus-minus button . You'll see them on event detail pages, event search results, and various other places on the site. They're used to add an event to (or remove an event from) one of your Eventful calendars or one of the Eventful groups you've joined.

When you click on the button, you'll get a little panel popping up on the page, and at the bottom of the panel, you'll see a set of links for exporting the selected event to remote calendars, including Rabble and now Yahoo! Calendar. For each of these services you wish to export to, you'll need an account on the respective service. For Yahoo! Calendar, you'll need a Yahoo account. When you click on the Yahoo! Calendar link here, we send the event information to Yahoo! Calendar. If you're not already signed in on Yahoo, Yahoo will ask for you to sign in before you're able to go to their add-event form within your calendar.

Our goal is to continue to add more calendar services to export to. Have a favorite that you use all the time that you'd love to see us support? Let us know!

Could you add the new Google Calendar to this as well? That'd be awesome!

Evan

We did! We launched Google Calendar support last week. News is here: http://blog.eventful.com/archives/2006/04/new_google_cale.html

Can I export an entire calendar (multiple events) to yahoo?

Yes, you can. Not quite automatically, but, here's how:

1) Go to the Eventful page where your Calendar resides.
2) Click on the "CSV" feed icon, and download the .csv file.
3) Open a browser window and go to Yahoo, go into your Yahoo! Calendar, and click on the "Options" link.
4) Then click on "Import/Export" link under the "Management" column.
5) Under "Import from Outlook", click on the "Choose File" button, and find the .csv file you saved from your Eventful Calendar.
6) Click on "Import" and you should have all the events from your calendar!