Events: get

Returns an event based on its Google Calendar ID. To retrieve an event using its iCalendar ID, call the events.list method using the iCalUID parameter. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

GET https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/calendarId/events/eventId

Parameters

Parameter name	Value	Description
Path parameters
`calendarId`	`string`	Calendar identifier. To retrieve calendar IDs call the calendarList.list method. If you want to access the primary calendar of the currently logged in user, use the "`primary`" keyword.
`eventId`	`string`	Event identifier.
Optional query parameters
`alwaysIncludeEmail`	`boolean`	Deprecated and ignored. A value will always be returned in the `email` field for the organizer, creator and attendees, even if no real email address is available (i.e. a generated, non-working value will be provided).
`maxAttendees`	`integer`	The maximum number of attendees to include in the response. If there are more than the specified number of attendees, only the participant is returned. Optional.
`timeZone`	`string`	Time zone used in the response. Optional. The default is the time zone of the calendar.

Authorization

This request allows authorization with at least one of the following scopes:

Scope
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.readonly`
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events`

For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.

Request body

Do not supply a request body with this method.

Response

If successful, this method returns an Events resource in the response body.

Examples

Note: The code examples available for this method do not represent all supported programming languages (see the client libraries page for a list of supported languages).

Java

Uses the Java client library.

import com.google.api.services.calendar.Calendar;
import com.google.api.services.calendar.model.Event;

// ...

// Initialize Calendar service with valid OAuth credentials
Calendar service = new Calendar.Builder(httpTransport, jsonFactory, credentials)
    .setApplicationName("applicationName").build();

// Retrieve an event
Event event = service.events().get('primary', "eventId").execute();

System.out.println(event.getSummary());

Python

Uses the Python client library.

event = service.events().get(calendarId='primary', eventId='eventId').execute()

print event['summary']

PHP

Uses the PHP client library.

$event = $service->events->get('primary', "eventId");

echo $event->getSummary();

Ruby

Uses the Ruby client library.

result = client.get_event('primary', 'eventId')
print result.summary

Try it!

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