Google Calendar OAuth Integration
Connect Google Calendar to your application without building and maintaining the OAuth flow.
Each user connects their own Google account through your OAuth app. Pathfix manages the authorization flow, stores and refreshes their tokens, and authenticates the requests your application makes to the Google Calendar API. What your integration does with calendars and events is up to your code.
What can you build?
Examples of what the Google Calendar API supports. Your application implements the logic; Pathfix authenticates the requests.
Show upcoming events
Read a user's events, including single and recurring events, and display them in your product.
Create and update events
Add events to a user's calendar with a title, start and end times and attendees, and update them as things change in your app.
Let users pick their calendars
Read the user's calendar list so they can choose which calendars your app reads from or writes to.
Respect user settings
Read preferences such as the user's time zone so your app shows times correctly.
How Pathfix helps
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OAuth authorization
Pathfix runs the authorization flow with your Google Calendar OAuth app, so users approve access on Google’s own consent screen.
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Token management
Each user’s access and refresh tokens are stored by Pathfix rather than in your application.
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Token refresh
Where Google Calendar issues refresh tokens, Pathfix refreshes them as they expire, so connections keep working after the first authorization.
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Authenticated API passthrough
Your application sends Google Calendar API requests through Pathfix, which adds the connected user’s credentials before passing them on to Google Calendar.
You own the Google Calendar OAuth application and its credentials, and your code implements the API logic.
POST https://labs.pathfix.com/oauth/method/googlecalendar/callHow to get started
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Create an OAuth app in Google Cloud Console
Create OAuth credentials for your application and enable the Google Calendar API for your project.
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Copy your Client ID and Client Secret
These belong to your Google project. Pathfix uses them to run the OAuth flow as your application.
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Choose your scopes
Request only the Calendar access your integration needs. Google lists the available scopes in its Calendar API documentation.
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Add the credentials in Pathfix
In your Pathfix account, add an application, select Google Calendar from the providers and enter the Client ID and Client Secret.
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Let your users authorize
Add the connect step to your app. Each user signs in to Google Calendar and approves the scopes you requested.
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Call the Google Calendar API
Send requests through the Pathfix passthrough API using the provider reference
googlecalendar.
The Pathfix setup guide for Google APIs covers the redirect URI and consent screen settings Google requires.
