apple-calendar

Apple Calendar via osascript

Calendar.app is synced to Google Calendar. Writing here writes to Google Calendar automatically.

Available calendars

• Work → Akash's work meetings and blocks
• Home → Personal events
• Akash & Abhigna → Shared calendar, visible on both phones. Use for joint trips, date nights, shared appointments.
• [email protected] → Google Calendar default

Routing rules

• Joint event (both Akash and Abhigna) → Akash & Abhigna
• Akash work → Work
• Akash personal → Home

Add an event (with date/time)

osascript << 'EOF'
tell application "Calendar"
  tell calendar "CALENDAR_NAME_HERE"
    set startDate to current date
    set year of startDate to YEAR
    set month of startDate to MONTH
    set day of startDate to DAY
    set hours of startDate to START_HOUR
    set minutes of startDate to START_MIN
    set seconds of startDate to 0
    set endDate to startDate + (DURATION_MINUTES * minutes)
    make new event with properties {summary:"EVENT_TITLE_HERE", start date:startDate, end date:endDate}
  end tell
end tell
EOF

Add an all-day event

osascript << 'EOF'
tell application "Calendar"
  tell calendar "Akash & Abhigna"
    set eventDate to current date
    set year of eventDate to YEAR
    set month of eventDate to MONTH
    set day of eventDate to DAY
    set hours of eventDate to 0
    set minutes of eventDate to 0
    set seconds of eventDate to 0
    make new event with properties {summary:"EVENT_TITLE_HERE", start date:eventDate, end date:eventDate, allday event:true}
  end tell
end tell
EOF

List events for next 7 days

osascript << 'ASCRIPT'
tell application "Calendar"
  set startRange to current date
  set endRange to current date + (7 * days)
  set output to ""
  repeat with cal in {calendar "Work", calendar "Home", calendar "Akash & Abhigna"}
    set evts to (every event of cal whose start date ≥ startRange and start date ≤ endRange)
    repeat with e in evts
      set output to output & (summary of e) & " | " & (start date of e as string) & " [" & (name of cal) & "]" & return
    end repeat
  end repeat
  return output
end tell
ASCRIPT