Comment by jonathancai | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jonathancai | Hacker News Reader

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Hey guys, when people ask to schedule a meeting/interview/whatever, I've always found it hard to respond with a list of time availabilities.

I always tabbed back and forth between my Google calendar to construct a message that accurately listed my free time, but this was painful.

My site helps me do this small task, and I wanted to see if anyone else had this same problem, had some feedback for me, or if there were any other simple solutions and I've wasted my time building this crap.

Note: I've yet to have my app verified by Google, so if you wish to import your own Google calendar on to my site, the consent screen will look sketchy.

Found I have the same issue. Customer facing folks have it even worse.

As much as I love the solution what I really want is a cli that’ll spit out my meetings OR my free time.

I.e I could say: cli --free 60m —today

And it would spit out the 60 minute chunks (in my time zone). Would love to copy paste that but not sure how hard it would be to do with the google api

here is the api you want. I use this to auto schedule my todos from a plain text file to my calendar

https://developers.google.com/calendar/v3/reference/freebusy...

Most excellent, thank you. My biggest blocker to getting started was the setup of a “google app”. Getting a token and all that.

Is it fairly straightforward to start making rest calls? I’d love to just hit that api

Do you have your script/tool published anywhere?

Sounds like a cool idea too!

This is a real problem, especially across time zones and people who schedule a lot of meetings.

I'd like to add people to a meeting and choose the best time based on free slots on their calendar.

Thanks for the feedback!

That's definitely ideal. Effectively when2meet integrated with Google Calendar. Might be down the pipeline if enough people interested

Handy, bookmarked, thank you

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