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Vishnudev K
Vishnudev K

Reputation: 2934

Accessing public google calendars without auth

There are lot of public calendars like

https://www.google.com/calendar/htmlembed?src=en-gb.christian%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com&ctz=Asia/Calcutta

which does not require user to login. I've checked Google calendar apis. It requires user to login and Auth to access even public calendars.
Am I missing something? Is it possible to access public calendar without auth?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 558

Answers (1)

Owen Cao
Owen Cao

Reputation: 8183

You cannot access public calender without oauth token. As Google says:

Every request your application sends to the Google Calendar API must include an authorization token. The token also identifies your application to Google.

You need a service account for this scenario, service account is an account that belongs to your application instead of to an individual end user. For example, if you use the Google Prediction API to act on behalf of your application without accessing any user data, your application uses its service-account credentials to prove its own identity, and no end user is involved.

Here is the service account guide.

Upvotes: 2

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