Hindu calendar: ICS feed of festivals and vrats
astroway_vedic_calendar_icsGenerates an iCalendar (.ics) file of Hindu festivals and vrats for a year and place, with tithi windows, parana times and stable UIDs, ready to import into calendar apps.
Instructions
The festivals and vrats of a year for a place as an iCalendar file (text/calendar, RFC 5545): one all-day event per observance, the rule, tithi window, parana and source in the description, a stable UID per festival, date and place. Query: year, latitude, longitude, timezone (IANA or auto), include (festivals, vrats or single vrat types, comma separated; default festivals,vrats), tradition. The key travels in X-Api-Key, so fetch it from your server and serve the file to calendar apps; it is priced as one festivals call.
[Group: Vedic] [Endpoint: GET /v1/vedic/calendar/ics] [Required: year, latitude, longitude] [Cost: 100 credits (Tier 4)]
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| year | Yes | Gregorian year; events are those dated in it. | |
| include | No | Comma list: festivals, vrats, or single vrat types (ekadashi, pradosh, sankashti, purnima, amavasya, masik-shivaratri). | festivals,vrats |
| latitude | Yes | Latitude in decimal degrees, north positive. | |
| timezone | No | IANA zone name, or auto to look it up from the coordinates. Followed day by day, summer time included. | auto |
| longitude | Yes | Longitude in decimal degrees, east positive. | |
| tradition | No | Whose reckoning decides the day where traditions differ (Rama Navami, Janmashtami). | smarta |
| ayanamsaId | No | Ayanamsa id; 1 is Lahiri. |