Do not try this. It’s not a good idea. I don’t endorse it.<\/p>\n
That said, I have a Google Calendar that I want to view in Evolution (if just for the nice reminders) but I don’t<\/strong> want to make public, and I can’t use the private URL. I need Evolution to authenticate to Google, and download the calendar. If you can use a private URL, there is already a good solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n To that end, I made a terrible, horrible, no good patch to allow Evolution to authenticate to Google so I can download my calendar. The trick is to pre-auth with Google, get the auth token from the result, and store it in GConf. From there, the patch will make evolution-data-server recognize Google Calendar URLs and send the auth token in a special header.<\/p>\n Before I get to the patch, here are the problems:<\/p>\n Here’s how to make it work:<\/p>\n First authenticate with Google to get your auth token:<\/p>\n Replace username<\/em> with your email username. Replace domain<\/em> with your email domain — this will usually be gmail.com. Then replace password<\/em> with your google password.<\/p>\n This will return three lines, the last one will look like this: Auth=DQAAAGgA...dk3fA5N<\/tt><\/p>\n Then run:<\/p>\n You’ll need to replace authstring<\/em> with the 180+ character string returned by the previous command.<\/p>\n You should only have to do the above once. Or whenever the auth string Then quit Evolution and kill the data server with this command:<\/p>\n Start evolution after applying this patch<\/a>.<\/p>\n Go to the calendar component and add:<\/p>\n as a web calendar. You’ll need to replace username<\/em> with your email username and domain<\/em> with your email domain, usually gmail.com. You’ll need to check “Use Secure Connection” and I recommend that you cache the calendar locally.<\/p>\n Happily it works for me until the real<\/a> solution<\/a> is<\/a> available<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do not try this. It’s not a good idea. I don’t endorse it. That said, I have a Google Calendar that I want to view in Evolution (if just for the nice reminders) but I don’t want to make public, and I can’t use the private URL. I need Evolution to authenticate to Google, and\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xkahn.zoned.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
curl -D - https:\/\/www.google.com\/accounts\/ClientLogin -d accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE \\\r\n-d Email='username<\/em>%40domain<\/em>' -d Passwd='password<\/em>' \\\r\n-d service=cl -d source=evolution-testing-0.0.0<\/pre>\n
gconftool-2 --type string -s \/apps\/evolution\/calendar\/gauth authstring<\/em><\/pre>\n
\nexpires which seems to be very rare, if at all.<\/p>\nevolution --force-shutdown<\/pre>\n
webcal:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/ical\/username<\/em>@domain<\/em>\/private\/full.ics<\/pre>\n