Emacs google calendar
Due to lack of easy solutions to view my google calendar without having to open my browser, I have emacs downloading my calendar as ics.
I use my private address and make a diary out of it. Then it shows up in my agenda.
Of course I cannot create new entries, but it suits me fine.
To update the calendar I run the function nyko/getcals
; DIARY WITH GOOGLE CALENDAR
(setq diaryDir "~/Documents/diary/")
(setq diary-file (concat diaryDir "nyk0"))
(setq org-agenda-include-diary t)
(setq org-agenda-insert-diary-extract-time t)
(add-hook 'diary-list-entries-hook 'diary-sort-entries t)
(add-hook 'diary-list-entries-hook 'diary-include-other-diary-files)
(add-hook 'diary-mark-entries-hook 'diary-mark-included-diary-files)
(setq diary-list-entries-hook '(diary-include-other-diary-files diary-sort-entries))
; calendars you want to download
; each item links to a remote iCal calendar
(setq calendars
'(
("nyk0" . "private address of galendar file")
))
(defun getcal (url file)
"Download ics file and add it to file"
(let ((tmpfile (url-file-local-copy url)))
(icalendar-import-file tmpfile file)
(kill-buffer (car (last (split-string tmpfile "/"))))))
(defun nyko/getcals ()
"Load a set of ICS calendars into Emacs diary files"
(interactive)
(find-file (concat diaryDir "nyk0"))
(erase-buffer)
(getcal "private address of google calendar" (concat diaryDir "nyk0"))
(kill-this-buffer)
)
In order to import more than one calendars, you need to update each calendar to its own file and create a global diary file listing all the calendars.
Then you just define the global diary file as your default diary with (setq diary-file (concat diaryDir "globalfile"))