Worldwide Holidays Days API

https://www.calendarindex.com/

by eulid55 • 8 years ago

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zhte415• 8 years ago

Interesting idea, but needs more work.

Scanning the list of countries: Presenting them alphabetically and vertically, instead of left-to-right, makes much easier scan-ability. Some countries were also out-of-place alphabetically, e.g. Spain.

No countries with a Friday-Saturday weekend seemed to be present, for example Bangladesh. Knowing the days of the weekend is really useful and really related to needing to know public holidays (and I imagine a pretty quick-kill as it only needs to be input once per country).

I checked public holidays for where I am currently: China. It's wrong. National week (October 1st to October 7th) is 7 days, not one day, today's the last day. But the preceding Saturday and Sunday were working days (i.e. there was a 7 day working week before the 7 day national week of holiday, displaced weekend).

This seems valuable. But only if accurate and covers everywhere. Which it isn't now.

I also have an accurate list of international holidays (including weekends) in Outlook provided by Outlook/Exchange, so where can the value be sold most? For example, I know a 5-person team in a Fortune 500 that exist solely to make sure this kind of static data is maintained correctly. Any mistake though is gonna need a very strong SLA because it will cost them millions if mistakes happen.

Also, your 'About Us' page doesn't work.

timclonyy2• 8 years ago

Thanks for the heads-up. We will take care of this asap

stannol• 8 years ago

Useless for Germany, since it apparently doesn't have data for states, counties or cities, all of which can (and do) have different public holidays in Germany. I'm sure there's more countries where this means the data is incorrect.

timclonyy2• 8 years ago

CalendarIndex rep here. Thanks for your comment here. We provide the data for all the states and regions for the countries we currently support.

That information is only available via the API, we don't display the respective state and county holidays on the website.

This list here: https://www.calendarindex.com/supported-countries Shows a list of all the countries and states we support.

View the API doc to see how the calls are make: https://www.calendarindex.com/api-documentation

Let me know if this helps or you have other questions.

Worldwide Holidays Days API

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