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| | Ask HN: Calendar Sync/Scraping Tools? | | 1 point by gradschool on March 8, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment | | Hi HN. Long story short: my girlfriend is a massage therapist being
squeezed for big commissions by treatwell.com, a booking calendar and
SEO service. After she signed up with it, treatwell curtailed the
ability to export data from treatwell's calendar to her google
calendar, probably as a deliberate lock-in tactic. Although treatwell
reads her google calendar to avoid clashes, it writes only to its own
when someone books through treatwell. With her clientele steadily
increasing through independent referrals, she's investigating
alternatives including self-hosting, but assuming it's not worth
ditching treatwell entirely, what tools would you recommend for
scraping her treatwell calendar to keep her google calendar in sync
with it? |
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We basically can read events from any source within Google Calendar, assuming you have access to the calendar (either because it's shared to an account you have access to in Google or because you have OAuth access to the account where the calendar originates) and then sync them over to any other calendar that you have access to. You can also assign some nice custom privacy settings to those synced events so that they show up with whatever level of visibility you want others to have when they view your calendar.
So in your GF's case, she'd sign up for Reclaim, set her primary calendar as the non-Treatwell calendar, and then set the Treatwell calendar (assuming it's a shared calendar that her Google login can access) as the source. Then events get synced and you're good to go!
https://reclaim.ai/features/calendar-sync