gcal-cmd-tool 0.1.1

A command line tool to manage Google Calendars

gcal-cmd-tool

A command line tool to manage Google Calendars

Installation

This tool is available on PyPi. To install simply run

$ pip install gcal-cmd-tool 

Authentication

Authentication to Google Calendar API is done using a service account. Instructions can be read on Google's Authenticating as a service account .

To set the environment variable GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS on Linux run the following command:

$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="KEY_PATH"

Replace KEY_PATH with the path of the JSON file that contains your service account key.

For example:

$ export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS="/home/user/Downloads/service-account-file.json"

Resource types

Acl

CALENDAR - the Calendar ID

EMAIL - the email of the user

list

Returns the rules in the access control list for the calendar.

$ gcal-cmd-tool acl list [OPTIONS] CALENDAR

insert

Creates an access control rule.

$ gcal-cmd-tool acl insert [OPTIONS] CALENDAR EMAIL

delete

Deletes an access control rule.

$ gcal-cmd-tool acl delete [OPTIONS] CALENDAR EMAIL

Calendars

get

Returns metadata for a calendar.

$ gcal-cmd-tool calendar get [OPTIONS] CALENDAR

delete

Deletes a secondary calendar.

$ gcal-cmd-tool calendars delete [OPTIONS] CALENDAR