Google Calendar Bot

Receive the day's appointments from google calendar

Running

This project requires two things to be set up:

1. Some env vars
2. Some google credentials

Env vars are much the same as my other bots:

• $SASL_USER - the user to connect with
• $SASL_PASSWORD - the password to connect with
• $SERVER - IRC connection details, as irc://server:6667 or ircs://server:6697 (ircs implies irc-over-tls)
• $VERIFY_TLS - Verify TLS, or sack it off. This is of interest to people, like me, running an ircd on localhost with a self-signed cert. Matches "true" as true, and anything else as false
• $CREDENTIALS_FILE - Google API credentials file, see below
• $TOKEN_FILE - Google API tokens file
• $TZ - Timezone to render diary in

However, because this is google, and because google APIs are just awful to work with, we need to do some extra work to get credentials:

Your best bet is to pretty much follow this: https://developers.google.com/calendar/api/quickstart/go

And to then point the env vars $CREDENTIALS_FILE and $TOKEN_FILE to the files credentials.json and token.json respectively.

It's a real faff, but it's the only sensible thing. You should keep those files safe, though quite how I don't know (I don't know what happens if either becomes public, or how desktop google apps package these files. It's all a bit of a mystery, and google is unhelpful when I try to... ahem... google for it)