#4232 import external calendar availability

src/backend/package.json

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
     "ical-generator": "^10.2.0",
     "jsonwebtoken": "^8.5.1",
     "multer": "^1.4.5-lts.1",
+    "node-ical": "^0.26.1",
     "nodemailer": "^6.9.1",
     "prisma": "^6.2.1",
     "shared": "1.0.0"

src/backend/src/controllers/users.controllers.ts

@@ -173,13 +173,14 @@ export default class UsersController {
 
   static async setUserScheduleSettings(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) {
     try {
-      const { personalGmail, personalZoomLink, availability } = req.body;
+      const { personalGmail, personalZoomLink, availability, importedIcsCalendarUrl } = req.body;
 
       const updatedScheduleSettings = await UsersService.setUserScheduleSettings(
         req.currentUser,
         personalGmail,
         personalZoomLink,
-        availability
+        availability,
+        importedIcsCalendarUrl
       );
 
       res.status(200).json(updatedScheduleSettings);
@@ -199,6 +200,24 @@ export default class UsersController {
     }
   }
 
+  static async getUserIcsBusyTimes(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) {
+    try {
+      const { userId } = req.params as Record<string, string>;
+      const { startDate, endDate } = req.query as Record<string, string>;
+
+      const busyTimes = await UsersService.getUserIcsBusyTimes(
+        userId,
+        req.currentUser,
+        new Date(startDate),
+        new Date(endDate),
+        req.organization
+      );
+      res.status(200).json(busyTimes);
+    } catch (error: unknown) {
+      next(error);
+    }
+  }
+
   static async getUserTasks(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) {
     try {
       const { userId } = req.params as Record<string, string>;

src/backend/src/prisma/migrations/20260602212459_import_ics_url/migration.sql

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+-- AlterTable
+ALTER TABLE "Schedule_Settings" ADD COLUMN     "importedIcsCalendarUrl" TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT '';

src/backend/src/prisma/schema.prisma

@@ -1265,12 +1265,13 @@ model Availability {
 }
 
 model Schedule_Settings {
-  drScheduleSettingsId String         @id @default(uuid())
-  personalGmail        String
-  personalZoomLink     String
-  User                 User           @relation(fields: [userId], references: [userId])
-  userId               String         @unique
-  availabilities       Availability[]
+  drScheduleSettingsId   String         @id @default(uuid())
+  personalGmail          String
+  personalZoomLink       String
+  User                   User           @relation(fields: [userId], references: [userId])
+  userId                 String         @unique
+  availabilities         Availability[]
+  importedIcsCalendarUrl String         @default("")
 }
 
 model Wbs_Proposed_Changes {

src/backend/src/routes/users.routes.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Theme } from '@prisma/client';
 import express from 'express';
-import { body } from 'express-validator';
+import { body, query } from 'express-validator';
 import UsersController from '../controllers/users.controllers.js';
 import { isRole, nonEmptyString, intMinZero, validateInputs, isDateOnly } from '../utils/validation.utils.js';
 
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ userRouter.post(
   '/schedule-settings/set',
   body('personalGmail').isString(),
   body('personalZoomLink').isString(),
+  body('importedIcsCalendarUrl').optional().isString(),
   body('availability').isArray(),
   body('availability.*.availability').isArray(),
   intMinZero(body('availability.*.availability.*')),
@@ -57,6 +58,13 @@ userRouter.post(
 
 userRouter.get('/:userId/secure-settings', UsersController.getUserSecureSettings);
 userRouter.get('/:userId/schedule-settings', UsersController.getUserScheduleSettings);
+userRouter.get(
+  '/:userId/schedule-settings/ics-busy',
+  isDateOnly(query('startDate')),
+  isDateOnly(query('endDate')),
+  validateInputs,
+  UsersController.getUserIcsBusyTimes
+);
 userRouter.get('/:userId/tasks', UsersController.getUserTasks);
 userRouter.post(
   '/tasks/get-many',

src/backend/src/services/users.services.ts

@@ -12,10 +12,12 @@ import {
   AvailabilityCreateArgs,
   UserWithScheduleSettings,
   ProjectOverview,
-  isAtLeastRank
+  isAtLeastRank,
+  IcsBusySlots
 } from 'shared';
 import prisma from '../prisma/prisma.js';
 import { AccessDeniedException, HttpException, NotFoundException } from '../utils/errors.utils.js';
+import { busyIntervalsToSlots, fetchIcsBusyTimes, validateIcsUrl } from '../utils/ics.utils.js';
 import { generateAccessToken } from '../utils/auth.utils.js';
 import { projectOverviewTransformer } from '../transformers/projects.transformer.js';
 import { getProjectOverviewQueryArgs } from '../prisma-query-args/projects.query-args.js';
@@ -525,7 +527,8 @@ export default class UsersService {
     user: User,
     personalGmail: string,
     personalZoomLink: string,
-    availabilities: AvailabilityCreateArgs[]
+    availabilities: AvailabilityCreateArgs[],
+    importedIcsCalendarUrl?: string
   ): Promise<UserScheduleSettings> {
     if (personalGmail !== '') {
       const existingUser = await prisma.schedule_Settings.findFirst({
@@ -537,16 +540,20 @@ export default class UsersService {
       }
     }
 
+    if (importedIcsCalendarUrl) validateIcsUrl(importedIcsCalendarUrl);
+
     const newUserScheduleSettings = await prisma.schedule_Settings.upsert({
       where: { userId: user.userId },
       update: {
         personalGmail,
-        personalZoomLink
+        personalZoomLink,
+        importedIcsCalendarUrl
       },
       create: {
         userId: user.userId,
         personalGmail,
-        personalZoomLink
+        personalZoomLink,
+        importedIcsCalendarUrl
       },
       ...getUserScheduleSettingsQueryArgs()
     });
@@ -622,4 +629,52 @@ export default class UsersService {
 
     return users.map(userWithScheduleSettingsTransformer);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Read-only busy-times for a user's imported ICS calendar over [startDate, endDate), mapped onto the
+   * 0-11 availability slots per day.
+   *
+   * @param userId the user whose imported calendar is being read
+   * @param submitter the requesting user
+   * @param startDate the first day of the range (inclusive)
+   * @param endDate the day after the last day of the range (exclusive)
+   * @param organization the organization the requesting user is in
+   * @returns the busy slots per day, only including days that have at least one busy slot
+   */
+  static async getUserIcsBusyTimes(
+    userId: string,
+    submitter: User,
+    startDate: Date,
+    endDate: Date,
+    organization: Organization
+  ): Promise<IcsBusySlots[]> {
+    if (submitter.userId !== userId) throw new AccessDeniedException('You can only access your own schedule settings');
+    const user = await prisma.user.findUnique({ where: { userId }, include: { organizations: true } });
+    if (!user) throw new NotFoundException('User', userId);
+    if (!user.organizations.map((org) => org.organizationId).includes(organization.organizationId))
+      throw new HttpException(400, `User ${userId} is not apart of the current organization`);
+
+    const scheduleSettings = await prisma.schedule_Settings.findUnique({ where: { userId } });
+    if (!scheduleSettings?.importedIcsCalendarUrl) return [];
+
+    let busy;
+    try {
+      busy = await fetchIcsBusyTimes(scheduleSettings.importedIcsCalendarUrl, startDate, endDate);
+    } catch (error) {
+      if (error instanceof HttpException) {
+        throw new HttpException(error.status, `Failed to fetch ICS calendar: ${error.message}`);
+      }
+      throw error;
+    }
+
+    if (busy.length === 0) return [];
+
+    const busyDays: IcsBusySlots[] = [];
+    for (let day = new Date(startDate); day < endDate; day.setUTCDate(day.getUTCDate() + 1)) {
+      const busySlots = busyIntervalsToSlots(busy, day);
+      if (busySlots.size > 0) busyDays.push({ dateSet: new Date(day), busySlots: Array.from(busySlots) });
+    }
+
+    return busyDays;
+  }
 }

src/backend/src/transformers/user-schedule-settings.transformer.ts

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ const userScheduleSettingsTransformer = (
     drScheduleSettingsId: settings.drScheduleSettingsId,
     personalGmail: settings.personalGmail,
     personalZoomLink: settings.personalZoomLink,
-    availabilities: settings.availabilities
+    availabilities: settings.availabilities,
+    importedIcsCalendarUrl: settings.importedIcsCalendarUrl
   };
 };
 

src/backend/src/utils/ics.utils.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import ical, { ICalEventStatus } from 'ical-generator';
-import { Event, wbsPipe } from 'shared';
+import nodeIcal, { CalendarComponent, VEvent } from 'node-ical';
+import { IcsBusyInterval, Event, wbsPipe } from 'shared';
+import { HttpException } from './errors.utils.js';
 
 export const generateIcsFeed = (events: Event[]): string => {
   const cal = ical({ name: 'Northeastern Electric Racing' });
@@ -41,3 +43,171 @@ export const generateIcsFeed = (events: Event[]): string => {
 
   return cal.toString();
 };
+
+// checks if a given host is blocked (used to mitigate ssrf attacks)
+const isBlockedHost = (host: string): boolean => {
+  const h = host.toLowerCase();
+  return (
+    h === 'localhost' ||
+    h === '127.0.0.1' ||
+    h === '0.0.0.0' ||
+    h === '::1' ||
+    h.endsWith('.local') ||
+    /^10\./.test(h) ||
+    /^192\.168\./.test(h) ||
+    /^172\.(1[6-9]|2\d|3[0-1])\./.test(h) ||
+    /^169\.254\./.test(h) ||
+    h.startsWith('::ffff:') ||
+    /^fe80:/i.test(h) ||
+    /^fc[0-9a-f]{2}:/i.test(h) ||
+    /^fd[0-9a-f]{2}:/i.test(h)
+  );
+};
+
+// checks if a give ics url is valid, throws if invalid
+export const validateIcsUrl = (url: string): URL => {
+  let parsed: URL;
+  try {
+    parsed = new URL(url);
+  } catch {
+    throw new HttpException(400, 'Invalid ICS URL');
+  }
+
+  if (parsed.protocol === 'webcal:') parsed.protocol = 'https:';
+  if (parsed.protocol !== 'http:' && parsed.protocol !== 'https:') {
+    throw new HttpException(400, 'ICS URL must use http or https');
+  }
+  if (isBlockedHost(parsed.hostname)) {
+    throw new HttpException(400, 'ICS URL host is not allowed');
+  }
+  return parsed;
+};
+
+// fetches the text from the ics url
+const fetchIcsText = async (url: URL): Promise<string> => {
+  // timeout after 10,000 ms
+  const fetchTimeoutMs = 10000;
+  const controller = new AbortController();
+  const timeout = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), fetchTimeoutMs);
+  try {
+    const res = await fetch(url, { signal: controller.signal, redirect: 'error' });
+    if (!res.ok) throw new HttpException(502, `Failed to fetch ICS feed (status ${res.status})`);
+    return await res.text();
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (err instanceof HttpException) throw err;
+    if (err instanceof Error && err.name === 'AbortError') {
+      throw new HttpException(504, 'ICS feed fetch timed out');
+    }
+    throw new HttpException(502, 'Failed to fetch ICS feed');
+  } finally {
+    clearTimeout(timeout);
+  }
+};
+
+/**
+ * Fetches an ICS calendar feed and returns busy intervals overlapping [rangeStart, rangeEnd).
+ * Expands RRULE recurrences, applies EXDATE exclusions, and honors per-occurrence overrides
+ * (RECURRENCE-ID). Skips events marked CANCELLED or TRANSPARENT (free).
+ */
+export const fetchIcsBusyTimes = async (url: string, rangeStart: Date, rangeEnd: Date): Promise<IcsBusyInterval[]> => {
+  const validUrl = validateIcsUrl(url);
+  const icsText = await fetchIcsText(validUrl);
+
+  let parsed: Record<string, CalendarComponent | undefined>;
+  try {
+    parsed = nodeIcal.sync.parseICS(icsText);
+  } catch {
+    throw new HttpException(400, 'ICS feed could not be parsed');
+  }
+
+  const busy: IcsBusyInterval[] = [];
+
+  for (const component of Object.values(parsed)) {
+    if (!component || component.type !== 'VEVENT') continue;
+    const ev = component as VEvent;
+
+    if (ev.status === 'CANCELLED') continue;
+    if ((ev as unknown as { transparency?: string }).transparency === 'TRANSPARENT') continue;
+
+    const baseStart = ev.start as Date | undefined;
+    const baseEnd = ev.end as Date | undefined;
+    if (!baseStart || !baseEnd) continue;
+
+    const { rrule } = ev as unknown as { rrule?: { between: (a: Date, b: Date, inc: boolean) => Date[] } };
+
+    if (!rrule) {
+      if (baseEnd > rangeStart && baseStart < rangeEnd) {
+        busy.push({ start: baseStart, end: baseEnd });
+      }
+      continue;
+    }
+
+    const durationMs = baseEnd.getTime() - baseStart.getTime();
+    const occurrences = rrule.between(rangeStart, rangeEnd, true);
+
+    const exdateMap = (ev as unknown as { exdate?: Record<string, Date> }).exdate ?? {};
+    const exdateTimes = new Set<number>(Object.values(exdateMap).map((d) => d.getTime()));
+
+    const recurrenceMap = (ev as unknown as { recurrences?: Record<string, VEvent> }).recurrences ?? {};
+    const recurrencesByTime = new Map<number, VEvent>();
+    for (const override of Object.values(recurrenceMap)) {
+      const recId = (override as unknown as { recurrenceid?: Date }).recurrenceid ?? (override.start as Date);
+      if (recId) recurrencesByTime.set(recId.getTime(), override);
+    }
+
+    for (const occ of occurrences) {
+      const occTime = occ.getTime();
+      if (exdateTimes.has(occTime)) continue;
+
+      const override = recurrencesByTime.get(occTime);
+      if (override) {
+        if (override.status === 'CANCELLED') continue;
+        const oStart = override.start as Date | undefined;
+        const oEnd = override.end as Date | undefined;
+        if (oStart && oEnd && oEnd > rangeStart && oStart < rangeEnd) {
+          busy.push({ start: oStart, end: oEnd });
+        }
+        continue;
+      }
+
+      const occEnd = new Date(occTime + durationMs);
+      if (occEnd > rangeStart && occ < rangeEnd) {
+        busy.push({ start: occ, end: occEnd });
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  return busy;
+};
+
+// converts ics date to utc midnight for that day
+export const localDayStartForDateSet = (dateSet: Date | string): Date => {
+  const date = new Date(dateSet);
+  return new Date(date.getUTCFullYear(), date.getUTCMonth(), date.getUTCDate());
+};
+
+// converts the ics busy intervals into availability slots (0-11)
+export const busyIntervalsToSlots = (busy: IcsBusyInterval[], dateSet: Date | string): Set<number> => {
+  const dayStart = localDayStartForDateSet(dateSet);
+  const busySlots = new Set<number>();
+
+  const availabilityStart = 10;
+  const numAvailabilitySlots = 12;
+
+  for (let slot = 0; slot < numAvailabilitySlots; slot++) {
+    const slotStart = new Date(dayStart);
+    slotStart.setHours(availabilityStart + slot, 0, 0, 0);
+    const slotEnd = new Date(slotStart);
+    slotEnd.setHours(slotEnd.getHours() + 1);
+
+    if (busy.some((interval) => interval.start < slotEnd && interval.end > slotStart)) {
+      busySlots.add(slot);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return busySlots;
+};
+
+// returns given availability with ics busy slots removed
+export const removeBusySlotsFromAvailability = (availability: number[], busySlots: Set<number>): number[] =>
+  availability.filter((slot) => !busySlots.has(slot));