PHP to fetch a calendar from iCloud with authentication and CalDAV

icloud-cal.php

<?php

// get this data by logging into icloud.com on the calendars page and looking at the dev tools
// as per https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnico-beuermann.de%2Fblogging%2Farchives%2F115-Zugriff-auf-iCloud-Kalender-mit-Thunderbird.html&edit-text=&act=url
$account = array(
    'server'   => '', // note, this will be p12 or something, not P0; see the server that iclod.com serves json from
    'icloudid' => '', // the "dsid"
    'appleid'  => '', // your Apple ID; will be an email address
    'pass'     => '', // password for your Apple ID
    'calid'    => '' // the "pGuid"
);

$url = 'https://' . $account['server'] . '-caldav.icloud.com/' .
    $account['icloudid']. '/calendars/' . $account['calid'] . '/';

$headers = array(
    'Content-Type: text/xml',
    'Depth: 1'
);

$body = "<propfind xmlns='DAV:'><prop><calendar-data xmlns='urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:caldav'/></prop></propfind>";

$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $account["appleid"] . ":" . $account["pass"]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $body);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'curl/7.35.0');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PROPFIND");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$data = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

// suppress warnings because PHP < 5.3 complains about not being able to parse xmlns DAV
@$xml = simplexml_load_string($data);
$events = array();
$timezone = null;
$header = "BEGIN:VCALENDAR\nCALSCALE:GREGORIAN\nPRODID:-//Apple Inc.//iOS 9.1//EN\nVERSION:2.0";
$footer = "END:VCALENDAR\n";

// combine all the separate iCal files into one big iCal file
foreach($xml->response as $response) {
    foreach($response->propstat as $propstat) {
        $caldata = $propstat->prop->{'calendar-data'};
        if (strlen($caldata) == 0) { continue; }
        $accum_timezone = array();
        $in_timezone = false;
        $accum_event = array();
        $in_event = false;
        foreach(explode("\n", $caldata) as $line) {
            if ($line == "BEGIN:VTIMEZONE" && is_null($timezone)) { $in_timezone = true; }
            if ($line == "BEGIN:VEVENT") { $in_event = true; }
            if ($in_timezone) { $accum_timezone[] = $line; }
            if ($in_event) { $accum_event[] = $line; }
            if ($line == "END:VTIMEZONE") {
                $in_timezone = false;
                if (count($accum_timezone) > 0) {
                    $timezone = join("\n", $accum_timezone);
                }
            }
            if ($line == "END:VEVENT") {
                $in_event = false;
                if (count($accum_event) > 0) {
                    $events[] = join("\n", $accum_event);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
header("Content-Type: text/calendar");
echo $header . "\n" . $timezone . "\n" . join("\n", $events) . "\n" . $footer;
?>

Very helpful! Thanks for sharing!

can you tell how to create a new calendar

How to get the pGuid

Hi,

I'm trying to get this working, but it just returns nothing (I've got all of the parameters, and receiving no errors). Are there any known issues? Or restrictions beyond those made in the comments?

Is anyone able to support me?

Thanks

hello,
I got some errors on line 35,
in fact it seems it can't log in calendar...
does things have changed in apple server?
for exemple is adress still pxx-caldav.icloud.com/ or is it now pxx-calendarws.icloud.com

and on ical, is work calendar pGuid still "work" ?

How to get the pGuid

Is this code still working?

I think it doesn't but I don't understand why...

How to get the pGuid
and icloudid