Ask HN: Anyone have experience working with the Google Calendar API?

4 points by vrikhter 14 years ago | 3 comments

I'd love to ask you a couple questions about it. There's a product that we are looking to build, I poured through the API last night and couldn't get my question answered.

Basically trying to figure out if I as a user can look at other calendar (coworker's calendars) through a 3rd party product and make changes on their calendar. Booking an event, editing the event I created, and/or deleting the event I created.

Let me know if we can get in touch offline!

brucehart 14 years ago |

I have a little experience working with Google Calendar. You should be able to add events to other calendars if you authenticate with an account that has appropriate permissions (just like you would in the Google Apps interface). You'll need to use the CalendarId of the coworker's calendar in your requests, which you can retrieve using the calendar.calendarList.list function.

vrikhter 14 years ago | |

"if you authenticate with an account that has appropriate permissions (just like you would in the Google Apps interface)"

Do you mean that each user will have to add this app to their Google account? Mind if I send you an email?

brucehart 14 years ago | | |

Yes, you can reach me at bruce.hart AT gmail DOT com .