Re: [O] Sync Org with Google Calendar using google API (rather than caldav)

[Adam Spiers]

Thanks a lot for the info!  I agree that natively talking to the JSON API
is a nice feature :)

On 2 April 2013 08:17, Baptiste Fouques <address@hidden> wrote:
> Adam Spiers <orgmode <at> adamspiers.org> writes:
>
>> Sounds interesting.  It would be very helpful if you could explain how it is
>> different from the other synchronization possibilities out there, e.g.
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html
>> https://code.google.com/p/emacs-google/
>> https://github.com/travisbhartwell/Emacs-Google-Calendar-Sync
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GoogleClient
>
> two  main things  make  my sync  different  (also  this does  not  make it  
> more
> interesting ;)
> - it does not rely on external command
> - it does not rely on ics
>
> I always found that relying on  external commands makes thing more complex : 
> you
> have to  configure that command, in  its configuration file or  through 
> scripted
> call by passing right arguments, and then you have to integrate it in your 
> Emacs
> workflow.
>
> Using command in Emacs, configured  through convenient customization group is 
> so
> natural …
>
> Then, my sync. uses Google json API (and authentification using oauth, stored 
> in
> crypted file, for no secret in your  config file or anywhere else). This make 
> it
> by far less  portable. But, with Google dropping standards,  or juts 
> maintaining
> it at  there minimal  level, it makes  it more  close to what  you can  get 
> from
> Google calendar and events.
>
> Also using  elisp Json library is  so easy and  robust in regard to  parsing 
> ics
> files that it sounds very natural to use it.
>
> I don't  mean it is  better than caldav  sync tools, but  that I could  not 
> find
> myself satisfied  with those  tools, worried  about Google  call to  drop 
> caldav
> compatibility,  that  I  feel  I  need   something  more  close  to  Google  
> API
> possibilities. Then I  started it, and just  offer to share (that  how it 
> works,
> right ? ;)
>
> Thanks for the work of the community,
>
> Bat.
>
>
>