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.
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Request
HTTP request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/calendarId/events/eventId
Parameters
Parameter name | Value | Description |
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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 |
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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
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