Add Quick Event with Google Calendar API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Add Quick Event with the Google Calendar API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Add Quick Event action
1. Connect your Google Calendar account
2. Optional- Select a Calendar ID
3. Configure Describe Event
4. Optional- Configure Attendees
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Add Quick Event on Google Calendar

Description:Create a quick event to the Google Calendar. [See the documentation](https://googleapis.dev/nodejs/googleapis/latest/calendar/classes/Resource$Events.html#quickAdd)

Version:0.1.8

Key:google_calendar-quick-add-event

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Code#

import googleCalendar from "../../google_calendar.app.mjs";
import createEventCommon from "../common/create-event-common.mjs";
import { ConfigurationError } from "@pipedream/platform";

export default {
  key: "google_calendar-quick-add-event",
  name: "Add Quick Event",
  description: "Create a quick event to the Google Calendar. [See the documentation](https://googleapis.dev/nodejs/googleapis/latest/calendar/classes/Resource$Events.html#quickAdd)",
  version: "0.1.8",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    googleCalendar,
    calendarId: {
      propDefinition: [
        googleCalendar,
        "calendarId",
      ],
    },
    text: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Describe Event",
      description: "Write a plain text description of event, and Google will parse this string to create the event. eg. 'Meet with Michael 10am 7/22/2024' or 'Call Sarah at 1:30PM on Friday'",
    },
    attendees: {
      label: "Attendees",
      type: "string",
      description: "Enter either an array or a comma separated list of email addresses of attendees",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    if (!this.calendarId) {
      throw new ConfigurationError("Calendar ID prop is missing or empty. Please provide a valid string representing the calendar's identifier. For example, 'primary' or an email address such as 'user@example.com'");
    }

    const response = await this.googleCalendar.quickAddEvent({
      calendarId: this.calendarId,
      text: this.text,
    });

    if (this.attendees) {
      const update = await this.googleCalendar.updateEvent({
        calendarId: this.calendarId,
        eventId: response.id,
        requestBody: {
          ...response,
          attendees: createEventCommon.methods.formatAttendees(this.attendees),
        },
      });
      response.attendees = update.attendees;
    }

    $.export("$summary", `Successfully added a quick event: "${response.id}"`);

    return response;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Google Calendar	`googleCalendar`	`app`	This component uses the Google Calendar app.
Calendar ID	`calendarId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Describe Event	`text`	`string`	Write a plain text description of event, and Google will parse this string to create the event. eg. 'Meet with Michael 10am 7/22/2024' or 'Call Sarah at 1:30PM on Friday'
Attendees	`attendees`	`string`	Enter either an array or a comma separated list of email addresses of attendees

Authentication#

Google Calendar uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Google Calendar account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Google Calendar and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Google Calendar API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.eventshttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonlyhttps://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.settings.readonlyemailprofile