Calendars: get

Returns metadata for a calendar. Try it now or see an example.

Request

HTTP request

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

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.

Authorization

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

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

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 a Calendars 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;

// ...

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

// Retrieve the calendar
com.google.api.services.calendar.model.Calendar calendar =
    service.calendars().get('primary').execute();

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

Python

Uses the Python client library.

calendar = service.calendars().get(calendarId='primary').execute()

print calendar['summary']

PHP

Uses the PHP client library.

$calendar = $service->calendars->get('primary');

echo $calendar->getSummary();

Ruby

Uses the Ruby client library.

result = client.get_calendar('primary')
print result.summary

Try it!

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