This other question suggested using webhooks to listen for an event. Google Calendars API - Listener for new calendar events or updates to existing events?
As the admin, I need to listen for new, updated or deleted events in all my users calendars. Once alerted then I will take the event information and then do something with it in another business software application.
How can I use the webhook to not just listen for a events in a single user's calendar but in all calendars?
You have to create a resource for each Calendar. You can do it using the Directory API to fetch all the users and their respective Calendars:
List all the users in your domain.
Get the primary email of each user, which is also their Calendar Id.
Use a for loop to iterate over the emails and make a POST request:
POST https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/my_calendar#gmail.com/events/watch
If this is not feasible, you can request this feature on Google's Issue Tracker.
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I would like to now if the following functionality is supported by google calendar api:
Does the functionality provided by "Push notifications" include new events or just existing ones. Here is a copy paste from the documentation that let me doubt that new event notifications are supported "The Google Calendar API provides push notifications that let you watch for changes to resources.". So does this only apply to already existing resources (events on my case).
Is there a way to limit the availability on the google calendar. By this I mean setting a general limit (i.e working hours for a company for example from 9am to 5pm). And putting the logic further, is there a way to add more constraints. For example after I receive a notification of a new event created (if this functionality is provided), I check the event's data in my web-hook and let google calendar know that this event shouldn't be considered as valid.
If these requirements are not provided already by google calendar API, I am open to any suggestions to accomplish this even if it takes more coding.
Just to make it clear. The context of these questions is when the user creates an event in their google calendar through google calendar web interface not through my application.
I'm using calendar API to pull events of users in an organization that had installed my GSuite app as a service account (it just means that I have access to all the users in the organization).
I noticed some weird behavior - let's say I have an event with 2 participants - a and b (both are users in the company). when I use the calendar API events.list to pull event for a I get this event, and b is listed in the attendee list with responseStatus of 'accepted'.
When I pull the events for the same period of time for user b, I do not get this meeting, nor when I try to pull a specific event using the meeting id (event.get API). I also used showDeleted=True but still didn't get the event back when pulling the events of b (I'm pretty sure if the event would have been deleted then the responseStatus would have been 'decline').
What could be the reason for this behavior? I tried to reproduce it using two emails that I have access to, and I was not successful.
Since those are emails of my client I cannot just come up to them and ask what happened with this meeting.
This is the request I'm making (using python google API client):
from googleapiclient.discovery import build as Build
service = Build("calendar", "v3", credentials=credentials, cache_discovery=False)
service.events().list(calendarId='primary', timeMin=min_time, timeMax=max_time, pageToken=page_token, singleEvents=True).execute()
First I'm building the service using the service account credentials (delegating permissions to the current email), and then making the request to pull the events.
The min_time,max_time are strings like this - 2020-10-19T08:00:00+0000.
The pageToken starts as None but will change if there is a nextPageToken in the response.
This is the request I made to try and get the meeting of the user that appear as an attendee when pulling the event using another user's email & credentials:
service.events().get(calendarId='primary', eventId=<meeting_id>).execute()
But I'm getting 404 event not found response (This API returns deleted events - I've seen it)
I'm pulling all of the events correctly, and only saw this case on small number of the events (less than 5% of the meetings).
Any idea what could cause this?
Thanks!
I'd like for my app to add/delete/update events on a user's Google Calendar. The app only needs to delete and update events that the app itself has added.
Have I understood it correctly, that in order for this to work, the users have to give the app full access to their Google Calendars, meaning that the app could potentially read and delete private events on any calendar?
Or, is there a way to limit the access that a user gives to the app, for example, allowing the app to create a single calendar and only giving it access to events on that one calendar?
I've read through the relevant Google Calendar API, and I'm not seeing that this is possible. However, giving full access seems crazy and unnecessary!
It seems that this isn't possible. Google, why!?
What I ended up doing was skipping the API and using a calendar subscription. Limited use since the user needs to be able to set up a subscription and, especially, because Google takes up to a day to update subscribed calendars.
I'm extending a PHP application that allows managers to create events and assign specific users to those events. Before the user is listed as available to be assigned, however, I run a check against the user's calendar to see if they are available.
I've already built this once for Exchange using EWS and making use of FindItem method to retrieve events in a given timeframe for a user's email address, but I'm having trouble finding an equivalent in the Google Calendar API.
Both Events and FreeBusy Calls seem to require the specific user's calendarId, which is fine for retrieving the active authenticated manager's Calendar information, but not for their users, of which only the email address is currently available to my system.
Is there a way to retrieve events or a calendarId for a user based on a valid Google email address? (Or is there a better way to get other user's FreeBusy status that I've completely overlooked in my research?)
The Calendar API is a REST API that can be accessed through explicit HTTP calls or via the Google Client Libraries. However, please note that all requests to the Google Calendar API must be authorized by an authenticated user.
User's calendar list can be obtained through HTTP request:
GET https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/users/me/calendarList/calendarId
Code examples for supported programming languages can be found in CalendarList: get.
I track my users behavior using Google Analytics client side. At some point the user is redirected to one of my partners and I receive a callback from the partner about the value the user has generated.
The question is: How do I append that value from the callback as a goal with a value to the users session?
The objective is to be able to get insights about which of my traffic sources generate the most value (and not just most conversions - as that could be tracked with event tracking).
The solution might be similar to this one, but I'm not sure it's still the best solution - and there could be others as well.
Using Google Analytics to track the same session in client javascript and server side tracking calls?
Thanks in advance.
So it seems that this is now possible with the new Universal Analytics from Google by saving/syncing the users UUID to the server and then tracking any relevant events.
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/user-id
This package seems like a nice wrapper: https://www.npmjs.org/package/universal-analytics
Another option is to use same userId (not clientId). That works for multi-device tracking https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/3123662
Universal-analytics is better in that you can use it for anonymous users as well as signed-in users
But tracking by userId is better in that you can send events even if user is not currently on your website doing http or websocket requests.