Re: Creating Calendar Feed by Importing from external feed - Austin (Google) - com.googlegroups.google-calendar-help-dataapi

6 messages in com.googlegroups.google-calendar-help-dataapiRe: Creating Calendar Feed by Importi...

From	Sent On	Attachments
Eli	16 Jul 2008 12:40
Austin (Google)	17 Jul 2008 11:05
Eli	17 Jul 2008 12:31
Austin (Google)	17 Jul 2008 13:24
Eli	17 Jul 2008 15:26
Ray Baxter	17 Jul 2008 22:02

Subject:	Re: Creating Calendar Feed by Importing from external feed
From:	Austin (Google) (api....@google.com)
Date:	07/17/2008 01:24:34 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-calendar-help-dataapi

Correct me if I am misunderstand your intended use case. If all you want to do is aggregation events from multiple users, the best way to handle that is to with calendar subscription.

The API allows you to manage calendar subscriptions for sharing purposes. So if you have a bunch of students whose accounts you try to aggregate then you will create a master calendar which subscribes to all the student calendar.

Feature request to API can be filed here -

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/entry

Be sure to be very specific about the particular use case for the feature request, thanks!

Austin

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Eli <ecol...@gmail.com> wrote:

Austin, thanks for the reply. What we're trying to do is take advantage of Google's aggregation rather than create our own. We'll have several (possibly hundreds) of calendar creators on our campus and we'd like to be able to rely on your servers to maintain the data. So, basically rather than create a calendar by consuming their feed and shuttling events data to your servers we'd like to pass their URL to you instead. In this way, your service will continue to update the Google events data as the user's feed changes. Otherwise, we have to troll the network looking for changes with our own aggregator... it seems like this is already done in your calendar interface.

Is there a way to submit an API feature request?

Eli

On Jul 17, 11:05 am, "Austin (Google)" <api....@google.com> wrote:

Hi,

I am not sure what you are trying to do. If you meant if you can dynamically pull items from some feed and create a calendar to present its information, then yes the Calendar Data API allows you to dynamically create and insert event into a calendar. For more information, please go to our protocol guide -

http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/developers_guide_protocol.html

Hope that helps, Austin

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Eli <ecol...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm trying to use a public facing feed to instantiate a new Google Calendar rather than create the event entries myself so that when users register their URL the Google servers will aggregate the changes for me... how to do with current API?