google-calendar-url

Generate shareable URLs for adding Google Calendar events.

Features

Written in TypeScript and includes type definitions.

• No dependencies
• Works with vanilla JavaScript and TypeScript
• Adheres to Semantic Versioning

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Installation

yarn add google-calendar-url
# or
npm install google-calendar-url --save

Usage

import { googleCalendarEventUrl } from 'google-calendar-url';

const url = googleCalendarEventUrl({
  start: '20201212T100000Z',
  end: '20201212T110000Z',
  title: 'Event title',
  details: 'Event details',
  location: 'San Francisco',
});

console.log(url);

// https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&dates=20201212T100000Z%2F20201212T110000Z&text=Event+title&details=Event+details&location=San+Francisco

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API

The googleCalendarEventUrl function takes a single GoogleCalendarEventArgs argument.

interface GoogleCalendarEventArgs {
  /**
   * Start of event, acceptable formats are:
   *
   * 20200316T010000Z - UTC
   *
   * 20200316T010000 - Time local to the user
   *
   * 20200316 - All day event
   */
  start?: string;

  /**
   * End of event, acceptable formats are:
   *
   * 20200316T010000Z - UTC
   *
   * 20200316T010000 - Time local to the user
   *
   * 20200316 - All day event
   */
  end?: string;

  /** Event title */
  title?: string;

  /** Event location */
  location?: string;

  /** Event details */
  details?: string;
}

References

• Inofficial spec

Maintainers

• @lirbank