Calendar stopped working. Error message 403 (Forbidden)

Neil Ormos

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Nov 17, 2014, 8:15:52 PM11/17/14

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The Calendar function has stopped working for me.

google calendar today

which used to work, now fails, with this error message:

Failed to get entries: {'status': 403, 'body': '<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n<TITLE>Forbidden</TITLE>\n</HEAD>\n<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000">\n<H1>Forbidden</H1>\n<H2>Error 403</H2>\n</BODY>\n</HTML>\n', 'reason': 'Forbidden'}.

I've already tried deleting .config/googlecl/config and going through the authentication step that appears to generate a new token and requires that I approve access to Calendar by google-cl, but no luck.

Has anyone else experienced the problem?

Is there a simple fix?

Anish Varghese

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Nov 18, 2014, 12:50:03 AM11/18/14

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I believe it's because Google shutdown the old Google Calendar APIs v1(which is used in googlecl) and v2 yesterday (November 17, 2014) - Please see this link: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/calendar/v1/developers_guide_protocol. Hope the developers upgrade to API v3. Not sure if this is going to happen considering there hasn't been any update to the tool since 2012.

blawiz

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Nov 18, 2014, 3:37:37 PM11/18/14

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Hope so too. If any developer sees this, it would be nice with a comment :)

Petter Häggman

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Nov 19, 2014, 1:51:31 AM11/19/14

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You can use gcalcli >v3.0 for access to calendar, it will need some rewriting of parsing in existing scripts though... Works like a charm..;-)

Neil Ormos

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Nov 19, 2014, 10:37:36 AM11/19/14

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Thanks for the pointer to the decommissioning of the earlier versions of the Calendar APIs.

Neil Ormos

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Nov 19, 2014, 10:39:36 AM11/19/14

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Thanks. I wasn't aware of gcalcli.

Do you know of other service-specific cli-based interfaces? I looked around after you mentioned gcalcli, but didn't find any.

blawiz

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Nov 19, 2014, 12:55:53 PM11/19/14

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When googlecl failed i looked for alternatives too. 'pal' seem really cool ... calendar with agenda and files in clean text. But i doubt it is practical with android ... or do anyone have ideas how to solve this? also ... pal stopped developing in 2008 it seems :/

Anish Varghese

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Nov 27, 2014, 4:32:53 AM11/27/14

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Thanks for the tip about gcalcli. I tried it out and it works very well !

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