koconder / actions-google-calendar

Github action to import Google Calendar events

Google Calendar Actions

Description

This action runs on a cron and gets a Google calendars events so you can write them to a github repo as JSON. events will be saved in this format in the file you specify in your config (using name as the unique key):

{
  "events": [
    {
      "name": "National Public Lands Day",
      "date": "2021-09-25T00:00:00.000Z",
      "description": "It's <b>NPLD</b>"
    }
  ]
}

Setup

• Head to Google Cloud project new or existing
• Sidebar select API and services
• Click Library and enable Google Calendar API
• Click OAuth consent screen as External
• Create consent screen with your email(s) listed as a test user(s).
• Download credentials as JSON and sabe in root as credentials.json.
• Run node src/token.js to generate token.json following the prompts. When you get redirected in browser the string afer code= is your token.
• Set credentials and token json env vars on github action using the output from the script.

Todo

• Add support for multiple calendars.
• Add support for filtering events by date.
• Add support for filtering events by name.
• Add support for other output formats including markdown, txt, csv.