Getting Started

Steps

1. Invite Niles to your server
2. Google Calendar Authentication
   1. Public Calendars
   2. Differences between Service Account and OAuth2
   3. Adding via Service Account
   4. Warning
   5. Adding via Oauth2
3. Add Google Calendar to your Niles Configuration
4. Configure Timezone
5. Run your calendar for the first time!
6. Customise it
7. Warnings
   1. GSuite/Workplace
   2. New Calendar Format

Invite Niles to your server

Invite Niles

Google Calendar Authentication

Public Calendars

Public Calendars do not need to be added to the calendar, they can be directly added to Niles with !id but events cannot be added or deleted without permission to make changes to events.

Differences between Service Account and OAuth2

Summary:

OAuth2

• Acts on your behalf, with access to all of your calendars

Service Accounts

• Acts as itself, with access to specified calendars
• Can no longer receive shared calendars

Service Accounts

• Allows per-calendar permissions
• Allow read-only or read-write permissions
• Extremely prone to errors or limited by Google (As of Jan 17, 2021)
• Events created by Service Account (Niles)

OAuth2

• Only allows permissions for ALL calendars for authorized accounts Reference
• Expires and invalidated if not used for 6 months
• Does not require ownership or share permissions on calendars
• Events created by (Person)

More Information on OAuth2

Adding via Service Account

Select or create a Google Calendar, and select ‘Settings and sharing’

Scroll down and under ‘Share with specific people’, add [email protected] and give permissions to Make changes to events

Warning

The only way to add Niles to your Google Calendar is through acl.insert. You can try it at Google API Explorer This method is tested, but unsupported and may break at any time without notice.

Adding via Oauth2

If you have OAuth2 credentials installed, run !auth oauth2 and follow the link to authorize Niles to access your calendars.

Add Google Calendar to your Niles Configuration

Still on the ‘Settings and sharing’ page, scroll down to ‘Integrate Calendar’ and copy the calendar ID.

Now in your Discord server (in a channel where Niles will have permissions, i.e. #general or another channel you have setup) we can use !id with the usage !id calendarID i.e:

!id [email protected]

Configure Timezone

We could pull this from your Google calendar or Discord server, but since your members might be in different timezones, you must add your own.

This can be done using !tz i.e.

America/New_York
canada/eastern
Montreal
eastern
UTC+5
EST

This is done with timezone-soft
Demo

Run your calendar for the first time!

Great now we can tell Niles to pull events from our GCal, setting up the database and display our calendar.

!display - Displays the calendar WITHOUT deleting any messages.

Both methods pin the current calendar to the channel it was called in.

The calendar will automatically check for updates every 5 minutes, but you can manually use !update to pull any updates.

Customise it

You can change the way Niles looks and behaves, depending on your needs. See the detailed customisation documentation.

Warnings

GSuite/Workplace

If Niles is unable to find your calendar and you are under a GSuite / Google Workplace account, it’s possible that the administrator has limited external sharing.

Google has a help article on how to enable external sharing
https://support.google.com/a/answer/60765?hl=en

New Calendar Format

Google Calendar has a new format for calendar IDs
eg. [email protected]

If your calendar isn’t found, remove the CAL1_ portion - everything before and including the underscore