Events: quickAdd

Creates an event based on a simple text string. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

POST https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/calendarId/events/quickAdd

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.
Required query parameters
`text`	`string`	The text describing the event to be created.
Optional query parameters
`sendNotifications`	`boolean`	Deprecated. Please use sendUpdates instead. Whether to send notifications about the creation of the event. Note that some emails might still be sent even if you set the value to `false`. The default is `false`.
`sendUpdates`	`string`	Guests who should receive notifications about the creation of the new event. Acceptable values are: "`all`": Notifications are sent to all guests. "`externalOnly`": Notifications are sent to non-Google Calendar guests only. "`none`": No notifications are sent. For calendar migration tasks, consider using the Events.import method instead.

Authorization

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

Scope
`https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar`
`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();

// Quick-add an event
String eventText = "Appointment at Somewhere on June 3rd 10am-10:25am";
Event createdEvent =
    service.events().quickAdd('primary').setText(eventText).execute();

System.out.println(createdEvent.getId());

Python

Uses the Python client library.

created_event = service.events().quickAdd(
    calendarId='primary',
    text='Appointment at Somewhere on June 3rd 10am-10:25am').execute()

print created_event['id']

PHP

Uses the PHP client library.

$createdEvent = $service->events->quickAdd(
    'primary',
    'Appointment at Somewhere on June 3rd 10am-10:25am');

echo $createdEvent->getId();

Ruby

Uses the Ruby client library.

result = client.quick_add_event(
  'primary',
  'Appointment at Somewhere on June 3rd 10am-10:25am')
print result.id

Try it!

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