google-calendar-rsvp

RSVP to a Google Calendar event invitation from the command line.

In March 2021, Google announced that RSVP hyperlinks in Google Calendar invitation emails would require authentication. Previously, I had been using this script to accept calendar invitations in Mutt:

#!/bin/sh

# google-calendar-invite-accept.sh
# Given a Google Calendar invite email on standard input, accept the invite.

EX_DATAERR=65

ampersand='%26'
equal_sign='%3D'

accept_invite='1'


accept_url=$($HOME/.mutt/scripts/extract_url/extract_url.pl <&0 |
	fgrep "${ampersand}rst${equal_sign}${accept_invite}${ampersand}" |
	perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_unescape(<STDIN>)')

if [ -z "$accept_url" ]; then
	echo >&2 'google-calendar-invite-accept.sh: error: no acceptance URL'
	exit $EX_DATAERR
fi

curl -L "$accept_url" |
	w3m -dump -T text/html

Since the authentication change, I was forced to open the acceptance link in a browser. This program enables you to RSVP to the invitation without leaving your email client.

Usage

$ google-calendar-rsvp --yes 1g4j1h67ndq7kddrb2bptp2cua
$ google-calendar-rsvp --maybe \
	1g4j1h67ndq7kddrb2bptp2cua \
	MWc0ajFoNjduZHE3a2RkcmIyYnB0cDJjdWEgcm9yeS5tZXJjdXJ5QGV4YW1wbGUuY28K
$ google-calendar-rsvp --email --no < invitation.eml

Authentication

In order to authenticate with Google and RSVP to calendar invitations:

Create a new project on the Google Developer Console
Add the Google Calendar API to the project
Create an OAuth 2.0 client ID
Download the OAuth JSON client secret file to $XDG_DATA_HOME/google-calendar-rsvp/oauth-secret.json

Install

On Mac OS X, Google Calendar RSVP can be installed with Homebrew:

$ brew install teddywing/formulae/google-calendar-rsvp

To compile from source or install on other platforms:

$ cargo install --git https://github.com/teddywing/google-calendar-rsvp.git

Uninstall

$ cargo uninstall google-calendar-rsvp

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