I have an app using s2s connection with google calendar api. I need to create an event in different users calendars. To make it possible the user should go to the calendar's settings and share their calendar to the service account. But I would like to simplify this for the user - so that they don't need to go to their calendar settings. I don't have an interface for the user interaction - it's a bot. How can I access the user's calendar in another way?
1 Answers
0
votes
Maybe you can change the role set by the user to the calendar. According to this documentation, the owners of a calendar can share the calendar by giving access to other users. The sharing settings of a given calendar are represented by the ACL collection (access control list) of that calendar. Each resource in the ACL collection grants a specified grantee a certain access role. So the user can make you the writer or owner of their calendar, so that you can access it.
Another way is by using Delegating domain-wide authority to the service account,
If you have a Google Apps domain—if you use Google Apps for Work, for example—an administrator of the Google Apps domain can authorize an application to access user data on behalf of users in the Google Apps domain. For example, an application that uses the Google Calendar API to add events to the calendars of all users in a Google Apps domain would use a service account to access the Google Calendar API on behalf of users. Authorizing a service account to access data on behalf of users in a domain is sometimes referred to as "delegating domain-wide authority" to a service account
