NAME

Net::Google::Calendar - programmatic access to Google's Calendar API

SYNOPSIS

# this will only get you a read only feed
my $cal = Net::Google::Calendar->new( url => $private_url );

# this will get you a read-write feed. 
my $cal = Net::Google::Calendar->new;
$cal->login($username, $password);

# this will also get you a read-write feed
my $cal = Net::Google::Calendar->new;
$cal->auth($username, $auth_token);

or you can pass in a url to specify a particular calendar

my $cal = Net::Google::Calendar->new( url => $non_default_url );
$cal->login($username, $password);
# or $cal->auth($username, $auth_token) obviously

then

for ($cal->get_events()) {
    print $_->title."\n";
    print $_->content->body."\n*****\n\n";
}

my $c;
for ($cal->get_calendars) {
    print $_->title."\n";
    print $_->id."\n\n";
    $c = $_ if ($_->title eq 'My Non Default Calendar');
}
$cal->set_calendar($c);
print $cal->id." has ".scalar($cal->get_events)." events\n";


# everything below here requires a read-write feed
my $entry = Net::Google::Calendar::Entry->new();
$entry->title($title);
$entry->content("My content");
$entry->location('London, England');
$entry->transparency('transparent');
$entry->status('confirmed');
$entry->when(DateTime->now, DateTime->now() + DateTime::Duration->new( hours => 6 ) );


my $author = Net::Google::Calendar::Person->new();
$author->name('Foo Bar');
$author->email('foo@bar.com');
$entry->author($author);

By default new or updated entries are modified in place with any new information provided by Google.

$cal->add_entry($entry);

$entry->content('Updated');
$cal->update_entry($entry);

$cal->delete_entry($entry);

However if you don't want the entry updated in place pass no_event_modification in to the new() method.

 my $cal = Net::Google::Calendar->new( no_event_modification => 1 );
 $cal->login($user, $pass);

 my $tmp = $cal->add_entry($entry);
 die "Couldn't add event: $@\n" unless defined $tmp;

 print "Events=".scalar($cal->get_events())."\n";

 $tmp->content('Updated');

 $tmp = $cal->update_entry($tmp) || die "Couldn't update ".$tmp->id.": $@\n";

 $cal->delete_entry($tmp) || die "Couldn't delete ".$tmp->id.": $@\n";

DESCRIPTION

Interact with Google's new calendar using the GData API.

AUTHENTICATION AND READ-WRITE CALENDARS

There are effectively four ways to get events from a Google calendar.

You can get any public events by querying

http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/<email>/public/full

Then there are the three ways to get private entries. The first of these involves a magic cookie in the url like this:

http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/<email>/private-<key>/full

Google has information on how to find this url here

http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/developers_guide_protocol.html#find_feed_url

To use either the private or public feeds do

my $cal = Net::Google::Calendar->new( url => $url);

Both these feeds will be read only however. This means that you won't be able to add, update or delete entries.

You can also get all the private entries in a read-write feed by either logging in or using AuthSub.

Logging in is the easiest. Simply do

my $cal = Net::Google::Calendar->new;
$cal->login($username, $password);

Where $username and $password are the same as if you were logging into the Google Calendar site.

Alternatively if you don't want to use username and password (if, for example you were providing Calendar reading as a service on your website and didn't want to have to ask your users for their Google login details) you can use AuthSub.

http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForWebApps.html

Once you have an AuthSub token (or you user has supplied you with one) then you can login using

my $cal = Net::Google::Calendar->new;
$cal->auth($username, $token);

METHODS

new <opts>

Create a new instance. opts is a hash which must contain your private Google url as the key url unless you plan to log in or authenticate.

See

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/calendar.html#find_feed_url

for how to get that.

If you pass the option no_event_modification as a psotive value then add_entry and update_entry will not modify the entry in place.

Can optionally take a hash of options which will override the default login params.

service

Name of the Google service for which authorization is requested.

Defaults to 'cl' for calendar.

source

Short string identifying your application, for logging purposes.

Defaults to 'Net::Google::Calendar-<VERSION>'

accountType

Type of account to be authenticated.

Defaults to 'HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE'.

See http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForInstalledApps.html#ClientLogin for more details.

auth <username> <token>

Use the AuthSub method for calendar access. See http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForWebApps.html for details.

get_events [ %opts ]

Return a list of Net::Google::Calendar::Entry objects;

You can pass in a hash of options which map to the Google Data API's generic searching mechanisms plus the specific calendar ones.

See

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/protocol.html#query-requests

for more details.

q

Full-text query string

When creating a query, list search terms separated by spaces, in the form q=term1 term2 term3. (As with all of the query parameter values, the spaces must be URL encoded.) The GData service returns all entries that match all of the search terms (like using AND between terms). Like Google's web search, a GData service searches on complete words (and related words with the same stem), not substrings.

To search for an exact phrase, enclose the phrase in quotation marks:

q => '"exact phrase'

To exclude entries that match a given term, use the form

q => '-term'

The search is case-insensitive.

Example: to search for all entries that contain the exact phrase 'Elizabeth Bennet' and the word 'Darcy' but don't contain the word 'Austen', use the following query:

q => '"Elizabeth Bennet" Darcy -Austen'

category

Category filter

To search in just one category do

category => 'Fritz'

You can query on multiple categories by listing multiple category parameters. For example

category => [ 'Fritz', 'Laurie' ]

returns entries that match both categories.

To do an OR between terms, use a pipe character (|). For example

category => 'Fritz|Laurie'

returns entries that match either category.

To exclude entries that match a given category, use the form

category => '-categoryname'

You can, of course, mix and match

[ 'Jo', 'Fritz|Laurie', '-Simon' ]

means in category

(Jo AND ( Fritz OR Laurie ) AND (NOT Simon))

author

Entry author

The service returns entries where the author name and/or email address match your query string.

updated-min

updated-max

Bounds on the entry publication date.

Use DateTime objects or the RFC 3339 timestamp format. For example: 2005-08-09T10:57:00-08:00.

The lower bound is inclusive, whereas the upper bound is exclusive.

start-min

start-max

Respectively, the earliest event start time to match (If not specified, default is 1970-01-01) and the latest event start time to match (If not specified, default is 2031-01-01).

Use DateTime objects or the RFC 3339 timestamp format. For example: 2005-08-09T10:57:00-08:00.

The lower bound is inclusive, whereas the upper bound is exclusive.

start-index

1-based index of the first result to be retrieved

Note that this isn't a general cursoring mechanism. If you first send a query with

start-index => 1,
max-results => 10

and then send another query with

start-index => 11,
max-results => 10

the service cannot guarantee that the results are equivalent to

start-index => 1
max-results => 20

because insertions and deletions could have taken place in between the two queries.

max-results

Maximum number of results to be retrieved.

For any service that has a default max-results value (to limit default feed size), you can specify a very large number if you want to receive the entire feed.

entryID

ID of a specific entry to be retrieved.

If you specify an entry ID, you can't specify any other parameters.

add_entry <Net::Google::Calendar::Entry>

Create a new entry.

Returns the new entry with extra data provided by Google but will also modify the entry in place unless the no_event_modification option is passed to new().

Returns undef on failure.

delete_entry <Net::Google::Calendar::Entry>

Delete a given entry.

Returns undef on failure or the old entry on success.

update_entry <Net::Google::Calendar::Entry>

Update a given entry.

Returns the updated entry with extra data provided by Google but will also modify the entry in place unless the no_event_modification option is passed to new().

Returns undef on failure.

get_calendars <owned>

Get a list of all of a user's Calendars as Net::Google::Calendar::Calendar objects.

If owned is true then only get the ones a user owns.

get_feed [feed] [opt[s]]

If feed is a URI object then feed is fetch remotely. Otherwise it is assumed to be XML data and is parsed.

Returns an XML::Atom::Feed object.

update_feed <feed>

Take an XML::Atom::Feed object with a http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#post link and post it.

set_calendar <Net::Google::Calendar::Calendar>

Set the current calendar to use.

add_calendar <Net::Google::Calendar::Calendar>

Create a new calendar

Returns the new calendar with extra data provided by Google but will also modify the entry in place unless the no_event_modification option is passed to new().

Returns undef on failure.

update_calendar <Net::Google::Calendar::Calendar>

Update a calendar.

Returns the updated calendar with extra data provided by Google but will also modify the entry in place unless the no_event_modification option is passed to new().

Returns undef on failure.

delete_calendar <Net::Google::Calendar::Calendar> [force]

Delete a given calendar.

Returns undef on failure or the old entry on success.

Note that, at the moment, only Calendar objects returned by get_calendars with the owned parameter set to true can be deleted (unlike editing - I don't know if this is a Google bug or not).

However, you can pass in an optional true force parameter to this method that will allow Calendar objects returned by get_calendars where no positive owned paramemter was passed to be deleted. It uses an egregious hack though and might suddenly stop working if Google change things or I suddenly decide to remove it.

WARNING

This is ALPHA level software.

Don't use it. Ever. Or something.

TODO

Abstract this out to Net::Google::Data

LATEST VERSION

The latest version can always be obtained from my Subversion repository.

http://svn.unixbeard.net/simon/Net-Google-Calendar

AUTHOR

Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>

COPYRIGHT

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NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

AUTHENTICATION AND READ-WRITE CALENDARS

METHODS

new <opts>

login <username> <password> [opt[s]]

auth <username> <token>

get_events [ %opts ]

add_entry <Net::Google::Calendar::Entry>

delete_entry <Net::Google::Calendar::Entry>

update_entry <Net::Google::Calendar::Entry>

get_calendars <owned>

get_feed [feed] [opt[s]]

update_feed <feed>

set_calendar <Net::Google::Calendar::Calendar>

add_calendar <Net::Google::Calendar::Calendar>

update_calendar <Net::Google::Calendar::Calendar>

delete_calendar <Net::Google::Calendar::Calendar> [force]

WARNING

TODO

LATEST VERSION

AUTHOR

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