From: Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
To: Baptiste Fouques <bateast@bat.fr.eu.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sync Org with Google Calendar using google API (rather than caldav)
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2013 18:25:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOkDyE9o17gqqBnuky0+_RvK4MMGNJxZ3pE-sTLiWVu5H+aTTA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20130402T090240-590@post.gmane.org>
Thanks a lot for the info! I agree that natively talking to the JSON API
is a nice feature :)
On 2 April 2013 08:17, Baptiste Fouques <bateast@bat.fr.eu.org> wrote:
> Adam Spiers <orgmode <at> adamspiers.org> writes:
>
>> Sounds interesting. It would be very helpful if you could explain how it is
>> different from the other synchronization possibilities out there, e.g.
>>
>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-google-sync.html
>> https://code.google.com/p/emacs-google/
>> https://github.com/travisbhartwell/Emacs-Google-Calendar-Sync
>> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GoogleClient
>
> two main things make my sync different (also this does not make it more
> interesting ;)
> - it does not rely on external command
> - it does not rely on ics
>
> I always found that relying on external commands makes thing more complex : you
> have to configure that command, in its configuration file or through scripted
> call by passing right arguments, and then you have to integrate it in your Emacs
> workflow.
>
> Using command in Emacs, configured through convenient customization group is so
> natural …
>
> Then, my sync. uses Google json API (and authentification using oauth, stored in
> crypted file, for no secret in your config file or anywhere else). This make it
> by far less portable. But, with Google dropping standards, or juts maintaining
> it at there minimal level, it makes it more close to what you can get from
> Google calendar and events.
>
> Also using elisp Json library is so easy and robust in regard to parsing ics
> files that it sounds very natural to use it.
>
> I don't mean it is better than caldav sync tools, but that I could not find
> myself satisfied with those tools, worried about Google call to drop caldav
> compatibility, that I feel I need something more close to Google API
> possibilities. Then I started it, and just offer to share (that how it works,
> right ? ;)
>
> Thanks for the work of the community,
>
> Bat.
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-08 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-03-29 15:05 Sync Org with Google Calendar using google API (rather than caldav) Adam Spiers
2013-04-02 7:17 ` Baptiste Fouques
2013-04-08 17:25 ` Adam Spiers [this message]
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2013-03-29 11:03 Baptiste
2013-04-03 17:09 ` Bastien
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