Google Data API

bemasher — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:58:56 +0000

I've got a friend who has been doing a lot of web development for the UA Baja Racing Club and I've been offering ideas for developing certain things he wanted on the website like electronic time sheet submission. I suggested he just make a pdf form and have that post to a php script on his site which would then add the vales submitted to a table in his mysql database for the site. The reason I suggested a pdf form is that it would automatically do form validation for him without having to write or find extra code to do that in javascript or in the php part himself.

That ended up being a little too complicated for what he was looking at and wasn't a very feasible solution since he had no real experience with sql. So I started thinking about a few other ways he could do this that would be easier for him to implement himself. Eventually I remembered I wrote a python script for this very thing a few weeks ago that I use to tally up the amount of time I worked in the last pay period for when i'm getting ready to submit my time sheets at work.

The python script uses the gdata api to access my calendars and tally up the total amount of time I worked each day and displays it in a user-friendly format for entering into the website I submit the ETR to.

My grand idea was to simply use their master google account for the club to create calendars for each person//team, share them with each person such that they have permission to modify//create events. Then modify the python script I wrote to spit out CSV files for each shared calendar for easy import into excel (where they manage all of the info for each team and their members).

If you're interested in the script I could post it, it's mostly been kludged together from the python gdata tutorials I found so it's by no means original and I've only been programming in python for a couple of weeks so forgive any glaring mistakes:

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try:
from xml.etree import ElementTree # for Python 2.5 users
except ImportError:
from elementtree import ElementTree
import gdata.calendar.service
import gdata.service
import atom.service
import gdata.calendar
import atom
import getopt
import sys
import string
import time
import base64
import re
import datetime
import operator
from datetime import date
from datetime import time

def gCalLogin(email, password):
calendar_service = gdata.calendar.service.CalendarService()
calendar_service.email = email
calendar_service.password = base64.b64decode(password)
calendar_service.source = 'PythonETR'
calendar_service.ProgrammaticLogin()
return calendar_service

def FindCalendar(calendar_service, title):
feed = calendar_service.GetOwnCalendarsFeed()
for i, a_calendar in enumerate(feed.entry):
if(a_calendar.title.text == title):
return a_calendar.id.text
return False

def DateRangeQuery(calendar_service, calendar_id='default', start_date='2009-01-01', end_date='2009-01-30', event_title='Work for ARL'):
result = []
parseISO8601 = re.compile("(\d+)-(\d+)-(\d+)T(\d+):(\d+):(\d+).(\d+)([+-]\d+:\d+)")
query = gdata.calendar.service.CalendarEventQuery(calendar_id, 'private', 'full')
query.start_min = start_date
query.start_max = end_date
feed = calendar_service.CalendarQuery(query)
for i, an_event in enumerate(feed.entry):
if (an_event.title.text == event_title) and (an_event.event_status.value != "CANCELED"):
for when in an_event.when:
current_when = [parseISO8601.findall(when.start_time), parseISO8601.findall(when.end_time)]
if(current_when not in result):
result.append(current_when)
return result

def FindWeekBounds(today, weekday):
weekstart = datetime.timedelta(days=int(weekday) + 1)
weekend = datetime.timedelta(days=(5 - int(weekday)))
return [today - weekstart, today + weekend]

calendar_service = gCalLogin("emailaddress@gmail.com", "passwordb64encoded")
work_calendar = FindCalendar(calendar_service, "maincalendarnamehere")
p = re.compile('[\w\d]*?%40group.calendar.google.com', re.IGNORECASE)
work_calendar = ''.join(p.findall(work_calendar)).replace('%40', '@')
today = datetime.date.today()
work_week = {}
start, end = FindWeekBounds(date.today(), date.today().weekday())
work_events = DateRangeQuery(calendar_service, calendar_id=work_calendar, start_date=(start - datetime.timedelta(days=7)).isoformat(), end_date=end.isoformat())
for event in work_events:
start = [int(x) for x in event[0][0] if x[0] not in ("-", "+")]
end = [int(x) for x in event[1][0] if x[0] not in ("-", "+")]
start_datetime = datetime.datetime(start[0], start[1], start[2], start[3], start[4], start[5], start[6])
end_datetime = datetime.datetime(end[0], end[1], end[2], end[3], end[4], end[5], end[6])
duration = end_datetime - start_datetime
try:
work_week[start_datetime.strftime("%x")] += duration
except KeyError:
work_week[start_datetime.strftime("%x")] = duration

days = work_week.keys()
days.sort()
for day in days:
print day, work_week[day]

I did a little more work on the script since I posted the code on pastebin and I found a much simpler method for retrieving lists of calendars:

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def GetAllCalendars(calendar_service):
feed = calendar_service.GetAllCalendarsFeed()
return map(lambda x: x[1], list(enumerate(feed.entry)))

def GetUserCalendars(calendar_service):
feed = calendar_service.GetOwnCalendarsFeed()
return map(lambda x: x[1], list(enumerate(feed.entry)))

def GetSharedCalendars(calendar_service):
return filter(lambda x: x.title.text not in map(lambda y: y.title.text,
GetUserCalendars(calendar_service)),
GetAllCalendars(calendar_service))

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