Importing featured image

If the images (or links to them or some referencing field) are in the public ics file then mayb.

EG if in the description as image html ? if the image urls are not a relative url, then the html may still work on your site.

If images or their urls are not in the public ics file then no, no ethical way.

Note that inline_linking or hotlinking images is a murky ethical area, especially if you do not have explicit permission from the original site.
If they provide the ics feed publicly thats fair use.

It’s my google calendar, so yes I have the rights to the images, would the image be included in the public ics of a google calendar?

why don’t you look and see ? Just download the ics as a file (don’t import or subscribe, just treat like a normal file url. then Open the file in a text editor and find the event.

also refer to answer above – depends where it is stored.
note html doesn’t always get transferred to the ics DESCRIPTION field by the providing application – the ics standard doesnt specifically say anything about html in iics fields.

where are you adding the image in google anyway ?

You may be better off using amr-events (yes paid )- then you can add images to the events (just like in posts) rather than trying to go through google first.

Note if using a google labs feature they are not always guarantreed to be there – experimental

I actually have the paid version and am pulling the ics feed from that calendar (using events created with the paid version of the plugin) onto another site. How does that make a difference?

Hi techno,
well that was confusing…. your google calednar comment made me think you were using thta.

So It’s your site with ics feed produced by my plugin and
I assume you want to use that feed in another of your sites – possibly also using this plugin.

The short answer is ‘No’ – amr-events does not currently extract the feature image to somewhere in an ics field. If you look at the ics specification, the only possible place is as an ATTACH field.
https://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc5545

And since most calendar applications would do not do anything much with that, there has been no call to do that.

There are plenty of filters in my plugins. If you wanted you could custom write an add-on to put a link to the feature image in the feed somewhere sensible that does not break the ics feed.

Then on the receiving side, have a matching add-on that will extract the custom field/image link and display it where you want to display it.
This would be unique to your two sites.