gcalcli - commandline for google calendar

Sharon Kimble

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Mar 7, 2013, 9:30:02 PM3/7/13

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I've just installed gcalcli and have sussed out the syntax, but am unable to contact my goggle calendar via the oauth interface. i have entered my user name and password into .gcalclirc and have proved that gcalcli is reading it, but its not connecting with my google calendar in the cloud. Can anyone help me to sort it out please, such that they both talk to each other?

Thanks

Sharon.

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Jude DaShiell

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Mar 7, 2013, 10:10:02 PM3/7/13

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ttytter works using oauth. Why not download the ttytter package and
install it, then run it from the command line. Once you see the pin come
up which twitter.com sends you copy it then hit control-z to drop out of
your browser and back into ttytter and type the pin and hit the submit or
authorize button. Your oauth key for ttytter will then be stored on your
disk. Probably same principle applies to the app you've asked about as
well unless google did things differently. I'm surprised you were even
able to unpack any of google's apps when I tried doing that I had a
corrupted file.

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Sharon Kimble

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Mar 8, 2013, 12:40:01 AM3/8/13

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On 8 March 2013 03:08, Jude DaShiell <jdas...@shellworld.net> wrote:

ttytter works using oauth. Why not download the ttytter package and
install it, then run it from the command line. Once you see the pin come
up which twitter.com sends you copy it then hit control-z to drop out of
your browser and back into ttytter and type the pin and hit the submit or
authorize button. Your oauth key for ttytter will then be stored on your
disk. Probably same principle applies to the app you've asked about as
well unless google did things differently. I'm surprised you were even
able to unpack any of google's apps when I tried doing that I had a
corrupted file.

I got gcalcli from the wheezy repos, and its available for lenny and squeeze too, and was hoping that someone here had also installed it and used it so knew how to log on with it. But thanks anyway, I'll keep googling.

Thanks

Sharon.

On 8 March 2013 05:04, Sharon Kimble <skim...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8 March 2013 03:08, Jude DaShiell <jdas...@shellworld.net> wrote:

ttytter works using oauth. Why not download the ttytter package and
install it, then run it from the command line. Once you see the pin come
up which twitter.com sends you copy it then hit control-z to drop out of
your browser and back into ttytter and type the pin and hit the submit or
authorize button. Your oauth key for ttytter will then be stored on your
disk. Probably same principle applies to the app you've asked about as
well unless google did things differently. I'm surprised you were even
able to unpack any of google's apps when I tried doing that I had a
corrupted file.

I got gcalcli from the wheezy repos, and its available for lenny and squeeze too, and was hoping that someone here had also installed it and used it so knew how to log on with it. But thanks anyway, I'll keep googling.

Sharon.

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Tony Baldwin

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Mar 9, 2013, 1:30:02 AM3/9/13

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On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 02:29:18AM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I've just installed gcalcli and have sussed out the syntax, but am unable to
> contact my goggle calendar via the oauth interface. i have entered my user
> name and password into .gcalclirc and have proved that gcalcli is reading
> it, but its not connecting with my google calendar in the cloud. Can anyone
> help me to sort it out please, such that they both talk to each other?

Sharon, did you generate an app-specific password in your google account
settings?
You may have to do that.
The user:pass for your gmail is not the pair to authenticate for the
calendar access.

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Tony Baldwin

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Mar 9, 2013, 1:30:02 AM3/9/13

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On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 01:21:56AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 02:29:18AM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:

> > I've just installed gcalcli and have sussed out?the?syntax, but am unable to

> > contact my goggle calendar via the oauth interface. i have entered my user
> > name and password into .gcalclirc and have proved that gcalcli is reading
> > it, but its not connecting with my google calendar in the cloud. Can anyone
> > help me to sort it out please, such that they both talk to each other?
>
> Sharon, did you generate an app-specific password in your google account
> settings?
> You may have to do that.
> The user:pass for your gmail is not the pair to authenticate for the
> calendar access.
>
> ./tony

For the record, I DO use gcalcli,
and I did generate an app-specific password.
I don't have a .gcalclirc file,
but have just scripted a number of things I use it for,
such as

#!/bin/bash
# google cal agenda with gcalcli
echo "Enter event (MM/DD HH:MM sometext here) : "
read event
gcalcli --user mygmail...@gmail.com --pw APPSPECIFICPASSWORDHERE quick "$event"
exit

or

#!/bin/bash
# google cal agenda with gcalcli
if [ $1 ]; then
gcalcli --user myg...@gmail.com --pw APPSPECIFICPW calw 1 $1
else
gcalcli --user myg...@gmail.com --pw APPSECIFICPW calw
fi
exit

works great.

NOTE: I'm using it on Squeeze, not Wheezy.

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Sharon Kimble

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Mar 9, 2013, 7:50:02 AM3/9/13

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Tony.

No, I hadn't set up dual-verification but I do now :) But I still cant log on to it, so I've written to the gcalcli mailing list and hope for a reply from them, crossed fingers!

Sharon.

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