I want to be able to acces the calendars I have on my ICloud account without having to use a web-browser, and possibly offline.
How can I sync my calendars from ICloud with some calendar client on Ubuntu?
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You need to add each calendar individually.
- Go to Calendar
- New - Calendar
- Choose google calendar
- After putting in your username, click the calendar option (the option "Default user calendar" should be selected
- The list of all the calendars you have on google should appear. Choose one
- Repeat 2-5 for each calendar you want to add
This way you can manage the calendars individually (e.g. enable/disable them, add an event to a specific calendar).
Check https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleCalendarWithEvolution for more information.
You can achieve that using the gnome control center in Ubuntu:
Type
gnome-control-centerintodash, settings will appear select that and selectonline account:
Then add your google account by clicking the plus sign at the bottom of the dialogue window that appears:
Then turn the calendar associated with that gmail account on, and this should sync it with Ubuntu Calendar.:
If you want more Calendars set it up in Calendar in google from the
settings optionstop right corner of calendar page.Google has changed how apps communicate with your google account so you have to setup your phone from here else you won't be able to add an account.
Set up Google Account Calendar sync
Go to google calendar:
Get to
settings, top right of page:
In ther click on the
Calendars tab, top left of page:
In there click on
export calendars:
That will export your calendar in a
.icsfile format. Now Lets instructCalendarto sync back in Ubuntu desktop.
Instruct Calendar to sync with downloaded .ics file
Extract the downloaded
.icsfileStart up
Calendarand click onCalendar SettingsForm the dialogue box that appears select
from fileNavigate to that extracted
.icsfile location, select it and choose the one without the #[tag] at the start of the name.Back in Calendar select
synchronizeand make sure your internet is working and after a few minutes your synced calendars will appear.
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The answer by the OP is very useful but it's missing some key pieces. In particular how to determine the complete caldav URL by substituting the
XXXXabove.Credit for my answer is due to this blog post (note: I use Thunderbird/Lightning as my caldav client but this is irrelevant) .
The format of an iCloud caldav URL is as follows:
To determine the relevant parameters, first logon to your account on
icloud.com, then launch the Firefox web debugging console (F12). The steps are depicted on the below screenshots which show the web debugging console below the iCloud calendar page. With the "Network" tab selected -step (1)- generate some traffic against desired calendars (eg: create a dummy appointment). Look for the correspondingPOST(orGET) interactions.DSidparameter is some sort of numeric userID so it will be the same for multiple calendars/tasklists owned by the same account. Flip to "Parameters" -steps (2) & (3)- to reveal it.pGUIDvaries from calendar to calendar (it could simply be "Home" or "tasks" if you don't have multiple calendars/tasklists setup). It can be peeked from the same interactions, but using the "Response" tab -steps (4) & (5)- You may have to drill down in the JSON structures a little to discover it.That's all well and good. However it all stopped working quite recently and the comments at the bottom of the aforementioned blog post thankfully pointed to the source of the issue: since June 2017 Apple is migrating iCloud accounts to enforce app-specific passwords as a very sensible security measure. This means it's no longer possible to just use the main iCloud password for authentication when syncing calendars.
Once migration has happened to your iCloud account (you'll notice your calendar sync fails) the following steps are required:
This news item (in German, use Google translate if necessary) has the background info on app-specific passwords.
BTW: I don't think calendars have to be shared in order to be accessed in this way.