recurring-ical-events
Calculate recurrence times of events, todos, alarms and journals based on icalendar RFC5545.
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes. The package is production-stable, actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, and solves a genuine RFC 5545 complexity that most calendar applications need. The LGPL-3.0-or-later license is permissive for most use cases (including proprietary software that doesn't modify the library itself). Install it if you work with iCalendar data and need to expand recurrence rules.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.8 or later; depends on icalendar and python-dateutil being installed.
- Low friction: pure Python wheel, active maintenance (last commit 2026-07-20), production-stable status.
- Six runtime dependencies are all well-established calendar/timezone libraries.
License · maintenance · safety
LGPL-3.0-or-later (copyleft) — LGPL-3.0-or-later (copyleft): you may use this package freely, but any modifications you distribute must be released under the same or compatible license, and you must disclose the source.
last release 2026-04-30 (106 days) · last repo commit 2026-07-20 · 120 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 2,361,315 downloads/mo, #3,103 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install recurring-ical-events
import recurring_ical_events
from icalendar import Calendar
cal = Calendar.from_ics(ics_string)
events = recurring_ical_events.of(cal).at("2026-08-14")- Whether the package handles edge cases in RFC 5545 recurrence rules (RRULE) comprehensively or has known limitations.
- Performance characteristics when expanding events with complex recurrence patterns or very long time ranges.
What it is and what it does
This package solves the complexity of iCalendar recurrence by taking raw RFC 5545 calendar data and expanding recurring events, todos, journals, and alarms into their individual occurrences. It handles the full lifecycle: repetitions defined by RRULE, removals via EXDATE, and later edits to specific instances. You pass it a Calendar object from the icalendar library and query for events at a specific date or date range; it returns the expanded list of actual occurrences.
The package wraps six runtime dependencies—icalendar for parsing, python-dateutil for date math, tzdata and x-wr-timezone for timezone handling, typing-extensions for type hints, and backports-zoneinfo for older Python versions. It supports Python 3.8 through 3.14 and is actively maintained. There are no known security vulnerabilities.
Use it for
- Expand a calendar feed to show all occurrences of a weekly meeting over the next month.
- Retrieve all instances of a recurring todo item to display in a task list.
- Build a scheduling UI that needs to show individual alarm times for a repeating event series.
- Export calendar data to a format that requires flat event lists instead of recurrence rules.
- Query a calendar for all events on a specific date, including those from recurring series.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
The package is production-stable, actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, and solves a genuine RFC 5545 complexity that most calendar applications need. The LGPL-3.0-or-later license is permissive for most use cases (including proprietary software that doesn't modify the library itself). Install it if you work with iCalendar data and need to expand recurrence rules.
Install
recurring-ical-events on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction: pure Python wheel, active maintenance (last commit 2026-07-20), production-stable status. Six runtime dependencies are all well-established calendar/timezone libraries.
Requires Python 3.8 or later; depends on icalendar and python-dateutil being installed.
License in practice
LGPL-3.0-or-later (copyleft): you may use this package freely, but any modifications you distribute must be released under the same or compatible license, and you must disclose the source.
Quickstart
pip install recurring-ical-events
import recurring_ical_events
from icalendar import Calendar
cal = Calendar.from_ics(ics_string)
events = recurring_ical_events.of(cal).at("2026-08-14")Verify before relying
- Whether the package handles edge cases in RFC 5545 recurrence rules (RRULE) comprehensively or has known limitations.
- Performance characteristics when expanding events with complex recurrence patterns or very long time ranges.
Package facts
| License | LGPL-3.0-or-later copyleft |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.8 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 6 packagesbackports-zoneinfoicalendarpython-dateutiltyping-extensionstzdatax-wr-timezone |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 106 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 2,361,315 / month, #3,103 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersNatural Language :: EnglishOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: OnlyProgramming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9Topic :: Office/Business :: SchedulingTopic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python ModulesTopic :: Utilities |
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