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sweglord
sweglord

Reputation: 77

How to write events to Google Calendar in Chrome Extension?

From what I've learned, there are two ways to work with the Google API in Chrome extensions: setting up OAuth and via Google Identity API. I've chosen to work with the ladder.

So I have no problems viewing calendars and events, but now I want to create events. I've been reading calendars using the following:

chrome.identity.getAuthToken({ interactive: true }, async function (token) {
      //initialization (think they're all the same)
      let init = {
        method: "GET",
        async: true,
        headers: {
          Authorization: "Bearer " + token,
          "Content-Type": "application/json",
        },
       contentType: "json",
      };

      async function getCalendarId() {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
          fetch(
            "https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/primary",
            init
          )
            .then((response) => response.json()) // Transform the data into json
            .then(function (data) {
              console.log(data["id"]);
              var id = data["id"];
              resolve(id);
            });
        });
      }
      calendarId = await getCalendarId();
      await fetch(
        "https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/" +
          calendarId +
          "/events",
        init
      )
        .then((response) => response.json()) // Transform the data into json
        .then(async function (data) {
          //get today to next week's events
          for (var i = 0; i < data["items"].length; i++) {
            //console.log(data["items"][i]);
            if (data["items"][i]["end"] == undefined) {
              console.log("found undefined");
            } else {
              //found a valid event

            }
          }
        });
    });

Upvotes: 1

Views: 692

Answers (1)

Tanaike
Tanaike

Reputation: 201398

From i'll be using that access token of token to create an event. i think my authorization process is ok,, I understood that you wanted a sample script for creating an event in Google Calendar using Javascript. In this case, how about the following sample script?

Sample script:

Please use your calendarId and token. eventObj is a sample value. Please modify this for your actual situation.

// This object is a sample value. Please modify this for your actual situation.
const eventObj = {
  "end": {
    "dateTime": "2022-11-16T10:00:00-07:00",
    "timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles"
  },
  "start": {
    "dateTime": "2022-11-16T09:00:00-07:00",
    "timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles"
  },
  "summary": "sample event title",
  "description": "sample event description"
};

const options = {
  method: "POST",
  async: true,
  headers: {
    Authorization: "Bearer " + token,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify(eventObj)
};
await fetch(
  "https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/" +
  calendarId +
  "/events",
  options
)
  .then((response) => response.json()) // Transform the data into json
  .then((data) => console.log(data))
  .catch((err) => console.log(err));

Reference:

Upvotes: 1

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