Calendars: update

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

Request

HTTP request

PUT 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 the following scope:

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

For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.

Request body

In the request body, supply a Calendars resource with the following properties:

Property name Value Description Notes
Optional Properties
description string Description of the calendar. Optional. writable
location string Geographic location of the calendar as free-form text. Optional. writable
summary string Title of the calendar. writable
timeZone string The time zone of the calendar. (Formatted as an IANA Time Zone Database name, e.g. "Europe/Zurich".) Optional. writable

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

// Make a change
calendar.setSummary("calendarSummary");

// Update the altered calendar
com.google.api.services.calendar.model.Calendar updatedCalendar =
    service.calendars().update(calendar.getId(), calendar).execute();

System.out.println(updatedCalendar.getEtag());

Python

Uses the Python client library.

# First retrieve the calendar from the API.
calendar = service.calendars().get(calendarId='primary').execute()

calendar['summary'] = 'New Summary'

updated_calendar = service.calendars().update(calendarId=calendar['id'], body=calendar).execute()

print updated_calendar['etag']

PHP

Uses the PHP client library.

// First retrieve the calendar from the API.
$calendar = $service->calendars->get('primary');

$calendar->setSummary('New Summary');

$updatedCalendar = $service->calendars->update('primary', $calendar);

echo $updatedCalendar->getEtag();

Ruby

Uses the Ruby client library.

calendar = client.get_calendar('primary')
calendar.summary = "New Summary"
result = client.update_calendar(calendar.id, calendar)
print result.etag

Try it!

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