Boston Linux Meeting Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Linux Total Cost of Ownership

[jkinz-+hffLmS/kj4 at public.gmane.org]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 02:02:11PM -0500, jkinz-+hffLmS/kj4 at public.gmane.org wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 01:38:20PM -0500, John Abreau wrote:
> > Do you know if it has a sync API?
> 
> Interesting you should ask!  :-) 
> 
> It has a number of  API's,  there is even a tool called "gcalcli" :
> "gcal cli"  for use from the command line.  that might be best
> suited for a shell scipt interface.  There are also tools in
> JavaScript and Python. (and Java and .NEt and PHP) 
> 
> gcalcli is written in python. 
> http://code.google.com/p/gcalcli/
> 
> However, I don't know of a specific "sync" call. It may or may
> not exist. haven't dug in deeply enough yet. 
> 
> 
> gcalcli uses the python Gdata tools which you can look at more
> closely here::
> http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/
> 
> and Docs are here: 
> http://gdata-python-client.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pydocs/


John, more info: 

gcalcli can be used "scriptomatically" to add individual items to a gcal.

Official sync support is available for a limited number of
targets seen here:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/topic.py?topic=15305


Unofficial sync support seems to be available for "other stuff" but
you'd have to search google and the Gcal user forums to find out
about that.

Jeff Kinz