On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 01:21:56AM -0500, Tony Baldwin wrote:> > I've just installed gcalcli and have sussed out?the?syntax, but am unable to
> On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 02:29:18AM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> > contact my goggle calendar via the oauth interface. i have entered my userFor the record, I DO use gcalcli,
> > name and password into .gcalclirc and have proved that gcalcli is reading
> > it, but its not connecting with my google calendar in the cloud. Can anyone
> > help me to sort it out please, such that they both talk to each other?
>
> Sharon, did you generate an app-specific password in your google account
> settings?
> You may have to do that.
> The user:pass for your gmail is not the pair to authenticate for the
> calendar access.
>
> ./tony
and I did generate an app-specific password.
I don't have a .gcalclirc file,
but have just scripted a number of things I use it for,
such as
#!/bin/bash
# google cal agenda with gcalcli
echo "Enter event (MM/DD HH:MM sometext here) : "
read event
gcalcli --user mygmailusername@gmail.com --pw APPSPECIFICPASSWORDHERE quick "$event"
exit
or
#!/bin/bash
# google cal agenda with gcalcli
if [ $1 ]; then
gcalcli --user mygmail@gmail.com --pw APPSPECIFICPW calw 1 $1
else
gcalcli --user mygmail@gmail.com --pw APPSECIFICPW calw
fi
exit
works great.
NOTE: I'm using it on Squeeze, not Wheezy.
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