Syncing CalDAV to Google Calendar?

October 24, 2018 12:20 PM

I have a CalDAV feed with a username and password with events that I need to show up in a Google calendar. I understand Google doesn't support CalDAV natively, but surprisingly all of my searching around this seemingly simple issue has not turned up a solution.

Has anyone solved this same issue? Am I missing something obvious? I would be more than happy to pay for a fix, be it some kind of app running locally or a cloud service.

posted by symbebekos to Technology (4 answers total)

Man, it has been awhile (a year) but I did voodoo with CalDav <> MS Exchange <> Google. But it was very kludgy. I believe that I got Fantastical to show all my calendars. It was a royal pain in the ass. I look forward to more elegant solutions from the rest of the community.
posted by jadepearl at 7:15 PM on October 24, 2018

I do this on my Android phone with CalDAV-Sync.
posted by neushoorn at 10:31 AM on October 25, 2018

Response by poster: @neushoorn I should have specified that I'm trying to get my Google Calendar account to see this CalDAV calendar, so other services that rely on Google Calendar can see those events. CalDAV-Sync is excellent though, I did buy and use it so at least my phone can see the calendar.
posted by symbebekos at 10:59 AM on October 25, 2018

Response by poster: So I finally got this to work with a very hacky workaround. I installed Outlook on a Windows 10 VDI on Azure and used CalDav Synchronizer to grab my target CalDAV calendar (with username and password) and one-way sync it to an empty Outlook calendar. I made an empty calendar in my target Google Calendar account, then a second synchronization profile in Outlook/CalDav Synchronizer to send the CalDAV-synched Outlook calendar to the empty calendar in the target Google Calendar account, then set the syncs to update every 10 minutes.

This is totally gross and costs money, but it will work. Thank you jadepearl and neushoorn for putting me on the right path.
posted by symbebekos at 9:05 PM on November 3, 2018