Macos – Share iCal calendar with Google Calendar

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Here's a concrete problem:

I use Google Calendar and my coworker uses iCal. We need to be able to read (not write to) each others events.

I can share my different Google calendars with him by sending him the corresponding private URL, which he can then use to see my events.

However, I have not found a way to do the opposite – how can he share his calendar with me so I can see his events?

The only options I've found with Google, suggest either of us to move to either Google Calendar/iCal, which is not an option for other reasons.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Best Answer

This worked in May 2017, was broken around June 2017 and sometime recently has started working again.

It's now as easy as:

  1. In Apple Calendar, click the wireless icon next to the calendar name to reveal its WebCal URL.
  2. Triple click the webcal:// URL to highlight it (crappy interface!) and then copy.
  3. In Google Calendar, click the "+" button next to “Add a friend's calendar” on the left side and select "From URL”.
  4. Paste the URL, click "Add Calendar" and click the left arrow button in the top left corner to return to the calendar screen.

Original reference was from How To Geek but in June 2017 Google started to return

Settings Error Could not fetch the url.

Now the magic is back. Get it while it's hot.

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