ERROR (parse_birthday_day_month)

[Stui]

Heya!

I live in Finland and our language doesn't really work well with any code or system unfortunately.

I got error message stating the following:
fb2cal ERROR (parse_birthday_day_month) Failed to parse birthday day/month. Parse failed with tooltip_content: "Firstname Lastname (torstai)", locale: "fi_FI". Day name "torstai" is not in the offset dict {'maanantaina': 1, 'tiistaina': 2, 'keskiviikkona': 3, 'torstaina': 4, 'perjantaina': 5, 'lauantaina': 6, 'sunnuntaina': 7}

Basically the ending "na" could be left out and I'd be happy.

Is there any way I can force certain locale like en_GB for the output file because it'd be OK for me to have those birthdays in English. Or do you have any other suggestions?

[adilsond]

I got the same error here in Brazil. For some reason the dictionary returns days like 'segunda, terça, quarta....' and facebook returns the days in a complete form like 'segunda-feira, terça-feira, quarta-feira...'. Then I wrote a workaround in fb2cal.py to fix this:

`
diff --git a/src/fb2cal.py b/src/fb2cal.py
index 95a2e4e..be199ec 100644
--- a/src/fb2cal.py
+++ b/src/fb2cal.py
@@ -623,6 +623,20 @@ def parse_birthday_day_month(tooltip_content, name, user_locale):
# Use beautiful soup to parse special html codes properly before matching with our dict
day_name = BeautifulSoup(birthday_date_str, 'lxml').get_text().lower()

•    # Workaround for pt_BR Day names that differs from babel dictionary
  

•    feira = '-feira'
  

•    if day_name == 'segunda':
  

•       day_name = day_name+feira
  

•    elif day_name == 'terça':
  

•       day_name = day_name+feira
  

•    elif day_name == 'quarta':
  

•       day_name = day_name+feira
  

•    elif day_name == 'quinta':
  

•       day_name = day_name+feira
  

•    elif day_name == 'sexta':
  

•       day_name = day_name+feira
  

•    if day_name in offset_dict:
         cur_date = cur_date + relativedelta(days=offset_dict[day_name])
         return (cur_date.day, cur_date.month)
  

`

You can adapt this code for the finnish language.
day-week-pt-BR.diff.txt

[regisfso]

You can change your language to English here and the code will work fine:
https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=language&edited=account
I suggest to the author put that information on the tutorial/read me.

[epassaro]

Yes, changing the Facebook language to English solves the problem.

[mobeigi]

Unfortunately due to the way the script works (scraper) it relies on matching the day names from the Facebook page. I think an override system would end up being nicer with a fall back to babel names as backup.

Changing your Facebook language to English is a quick fix though. Added a note about that to readme.

[JeremyPgt]

Hi. Encountering the same issue. I'm French and made sure to switch the FB locale to English (UK or US) and still hit the exact same issue no matter what I try. The script stops with an error for a friend with a birthday on July 7th.

[mobeigi]

@JeremyPgt Try following the troubleshooting steps in the readme and emailing me the log.

[JeremyPgt]

@mobeigi Thanks a lot for your response. Sending you the log.

[mobeigi]

@Stui @JeremyPgt

Hello, I just want to say the script is updated now to use a completely new method for data retrieval. This issue should not happen again. I'm not sure if you ever solved the problem so just letting you know.