Extract ICS from Google Calendars
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I wanted to import the Openshift.tv Google Calendar to my Nextcloud calendar app. The URL looks like this:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=redhatstreaming@gmail.com
A simple import in Nextclouds calendar app didn’t work, I figured I needed to get either an ICS or ICAL file, but couldn’t find any easy way. No button on the website, no knowledge base entries either.
By chance, I found a thread in Googles support forum which describes a way how to extract the ICS from a Google calendar:
Go to the settings for the Other Calendar, and note down the Public URL to this calendar, for example:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=en-gb.christian%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe%2FParis
Now take the part after ‘src=’ up to and including
calendar.google.com
so in this case our subscribed calendar ID isen-gb.christian%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com
Now replace the ********** here with that text:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/**********/public/basic.ics
to give the final feed URL which you can download directly in your browser:https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/en-gb.christian%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics
For the Openshift.tv calendar, this lead to this ICAL URL: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/redhatstreaming@gmail.com/public/basic.ics