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Google Calendar Python API with Freebusy
"""
Mostly the Google quickstart.py code with the "freebusy" service running.
Also shows how to make datetimes using pytz.
Follow these instructions to get access credentials:
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/quickstart/python
"""
from __future__ import print_function
import httplib2
import os
from apiclient import discovery
import oauth2client
from oauth2client import client
from oauth2client import tools
import pytz
import datetime
try:
import argparse
flags = argparse.ArgumentParser(parents=[tools.argparser]).parse_args()
except ImportError:
flags = None
SCOPES = 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar'
CLIENT_SECRET_FILE = 'PATH_TO_MY_SECRETS.apps.googleusercontent.com.json'
APPLICATION_NAME = 'Google Calendar API Python Quickstart'
def get_credentials():
"""Gets valid user credentials from storage.
If nothing has been stored, or if the stored credentials are invalid,
the OAuth2 flow is completed to obtain the new credentials.
Returns:
Credentials, the obtained credential.
"""
home_dir = os.path.expanduser('~')
credential_dir = os.path.join(home_dir, '.credentials')
if not os.path.exists(credential_dir):
os.makedirs(credential_dir)
credential_path = os.path.join(credential_dir,
'calendar-python-quickstart.json')
store = oauth2client.file.Storage(credential_path)
credentials = store.get()
if not credentials or credentials.invalid:
flow = client.flow_from_clientsecrets(CLIENT_SECRET_FILE, SCOPES)
flow.user_agent = APPLICATION_NAME
if flags:
credentials = tools.run_flow(flow, store, flags)
else: # Needed only for compatibility with Python 2.6
credentials = tools.run(flow, store)
print('Storing credentials to ' + credential_path)
return credentials
def main():
"""Shows basic usage of the Google Calendar API.
Creates a Google Calendar API service object and outputs a list of the next
10 events on the user's calendar.
"""
credentials = get_credentials()
http = credentials.authorize(httplib2.Http())
service = discovery.build('calendar', 'v3', http=http)
now = datetime.datetime.utcnow().isoformat() + 'Z' # 'Z' indicates UTC time
print('Getting the upcoming 10 events')
eventsResult = service.events().list(
calendarId='primary', timeMin=now, maxResults=10, singleEvents=True,
orderBy='startTime').execute()
events = eventsResult.get('items', [])
if not events:
print('No upcoming events found.')
for event in events:
start = event['start'].get('dateTime', event['start'].get('date'))
print(start, event['summary'])
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Add event
tz = pytz.timezone('US/Central')
start_datetime = tz.localize(datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 3, 8))
stop_datetime = tz.localize(datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 3, 8, 30))
event = {
'summary': 'My Test Event',
'description': 'A chance to hear more about Google\'s developer products.',
'start': {
'dateTime': start_datetime.isoformat(),
'timeZone': 'US/Central',
},
'end': {
'dateTime': stop_datetime.isoformat(),
'timeZone': 'US/Central',
},
'attendees': [
{'email': 'lpage@example.com'},
{'email': 'sbrin@example.com'},
],
}
event = service.events().insert(calendarId='primary', body=event).execute()
print('Event created: %s' % (event.get('htmlLink')))
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This event should be returned by freebusy
the_datetime = tz.localize(datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 3, 0))
the_datetime2 = tz.localize(datetime.datetime(2016, 1, 4, 8))
body = {
"timeMin": the_datetime.isoformat(),
"timeMax": the_datetime2.isoformat(),
"timeZone": 'US/Central',
"items": [{"id": 'my.email@gmail.com'}]
}
eventsResult = service.freebusy().query(body=body).execute()
cal_dict = eventsResult[u'calendars']
for cal_name in cal_dict:
print(cal_name, cal_dict[cal_name])
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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