How to use Python to create a google calendar event via API v3
The following official page gives an example on how to create an event with Python. https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v3/reference/events/insert#examples
The code they gave is listed below:
event = {
'summary': 'Appointment',
'location': 'Somewhere',
'start': {
'dateTime': '2011-06-03T10:00:00.000-07:00'
},
'end': {
'dateTime': '2011-06-03T10:25:00.000-07:00'
},
'attendees': [
{
'email': 'attendeeEmail',
# Other attendee data...
},
# ...
],
}
created_event = service.events().insert(calendarId='primary', body=event).execute()
print created_event['id']
However, the example above does not indicate how to establish a connection and create a variable service
. Since I have set my calendar to be public I think it would be very easy to create service
.
Does anyone know how to establish a connection?
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I had a hard time figuring out how to use the Google Calendar api with OAuth, etc. I finally got everything working and wrote a simple, easy-to-use package along the way. I've uploaded it to github and can be installed from pypi using "pip install gback". The documentation also contains instructions for google account settings.
https://github.com/Schwarzschild/gback
Here is a snippit example for adding an appointment to a calendar.
from gback import GCalSession
# print the output will display the appiointment url.
# 'Marc' is the name of the calendar used.
session = GCalSession('~/gback.oauth')
des='Write a simpler way to use the google calendar api.'
print session['Marc'].add('Write Python code.', '20150430', des=des)
Enjoy Mark
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