gmail2gcal

#!/bin/sh

# By default, Gmail2Gcal will add events to your default calendar. If
# you wish to use another calendar, remove the pound sign (#) from the
# beginning of the line line below and insert your calendar name in
# the line.

# CALENDAR="--cal=YOUR-CALENDAR-NAME-HERE"      # <=== Set calendar name here

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# What follows is the actual code and internal documentation. It is
# not required to read further to install Gmail2Gcal.
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# The Gmail API has a peculiar bug that prevents alarms from being set
# via the natural language interface that is used by the GoogleCL
# command. After much exerimentation, I discovered a workaround.
#
# It seems that the CLI event creation puts an inactive reminder in
# the event. Visiting the event on the web will activate the reminder
# but that is not an automated process.
# 
# To automate the process, we create the event, extracting the event's
# URL from the CLI's output, and then we access the URL via a wget.
# 
# Don't ask me to explain this. Complain to Google. All I know is that it works.

(
    url=$(google calendar --reminder=0m "$CALENDAR" add "$*" 2>&1 > /dev/null | sed 's/Event created: //')

    wget -O /dev/null "$url"

) 2>&1 > /dev/null

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## Gmail2Gcal for IMAPFilter by Neil Smithline is licensed under a
## Creative Commons Attribution#ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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## See https://github.com/Neil#Smithline/imapfilter#gmail2gcal for
## more details.
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