Events: get

Returns an event. 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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