NeoCal

NeoCal is a Google Calendar Command Line Interface that allows you to access your Google Calendar(s) from a command line. It uses Google Apps Script platform to build his own data source, making it less complicated to setup than using OAUTH config tokens.

Installation

You can either install it via cargo or download the binaries from GitHub releases.

If you go the cargo route, you need to have it installed (usually using rustup). In a terminal, run this command to install neocal:

cargo install neocal

Then you’ll be able to run neocal from whichever directory you’re in.

If you want other installation option, please go to the Wiki Page

SetUp

Once you have it installed you need to follow 3 steps in order to complete the configuration:

1. Get Calendar IDs

2. Setup Google Apps Script

3. Create Config File

How-To

NeoCal provides a series of subcommands with the following functionality:

agenda      Shows user calendar in Agenda-like view mode
calendar    Shows user calendar in Calendar-like view mode
help        Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)

And also comes with the following options:

-f, --for <FOR>              Name of the calendar to use
-h, --help                   Print help information
-s, --search <SEARCH>        Word to search in the calendar
-t, --timezone <TIMEZONE>    Name of the Time Zone to return the events
    --today                  Get calendar entries for today
    --tomorrow               Get calendar entries for tomorrow
-V, --version                Print version information
    --week                   Get calendar entries for the current week

Run with --help/-h for detailed usage.

To-Do

List of things to add support in order of importance:

High

1. Add Calendar view

Medium

1. Allow table style choices

2. List User Calendar

Low

1. Create events from the CLI

2. Edit events from the CLI

3. Delete events from the CLI

4. Event Popup Reminders

5. Theme Support

6. Colorized output