Creates an event based on a simple text string in Google Calendar
A documented Google Calendar operation that changes something in your account. Describe the outcome you want in plain words — HumDay writes the program, proves it, and runs it.
What this operation does
Creates an event based on a simple text string.
- POSTChanges data · events
www.googleapis.com/calendars/{calendarId}/events/quickAdd
How HumDay uses it
- You describe the outcome. Not this operation by name — what you want to happen. HumDay works out which operations it needs.
- The contract names it. Before anything is built, you see exactly which Google Calendar operations the program may use, and this is one of them.
- You approve access. Because this one changes data, it cannot run until you have explicitly granted it.
Other Google Calendar operations
- Inserts an existing calendar into the user's calendar listPOST · changes data
- Removes a calendar from the user's calendar listDELETE · changes data
- Updates an existing calendar on the user's calendar listPATCH · changes data
- Updates an existing calendar on the user's calendar listPUT · changes data
- Imports an event. This operation is usedPOST · changes data
- Creates a secondary calendarPOST · changes data
- Creates an eventPOST · changes data
- Stop watching resources through this channelPOST · changes data
Questions
- Can HumDay creates an event based on a simple text string in Google Calendar?
- Yes. This operation is published in Google Calendar's own API description, so HumDay can use it without a hand-built connector — once you have approved it for your automation.
- Will this change my Google Calendar data?
- Yes — this is a POST operation, so it changes something in Google Calendar. HumDay holds anything that writes behind an approval you grant explicitly, and the contract you approve says what it may touch.
- Do I need to write code?
- No. You describe the outcome you want in plain words. HumDay agrees a contract with you, writes the program, and shows you a proof run before anything touches your Google Calendar account.
Where this came from
Read from a published API description for Google Calendar at calendar-json.googleapis.com/$discovery/rest?version=v3. The description above is the provider’s own wording, not ours. Last published 2023-04-21.