What is the Right Way to provide a customized Google Calendar view?

February 27, 2024 8:52 PM

Our organization has many events each month, and would like to provide a weekly schedule view to our patrons. The event calendar is kept on Google, but their utilitarian interface does not fit our aesthetic at all. How to approach?

My first instinct would be JavaScript pulling the data off of the Google calendar and formatting it the way we’d like it. Alternatively I could use the Google provide embed block and see how creative I can get with CSS. I’m guessing both of those are Stone Age technology at this point, so I’m hoping someone with a modern tool set can give some advice. Ideally, the solution will meld cleanly into a SquareSpace website, either as a separate page or an embed.

Any tools or technology are fine, as long as they don’t cost money.

posted by Tell Me No Lies to Computers & Internet (4 answers total)

Can you use Squarespace events displayed in their calendar block? It's very basic Squarespace, but it does require that events be input into Squarespace using their events page. Its pretty easy, and offers ither benefits (opportunity to display description, images, save to their own calendar, maps, optionally.) I'm a Squarespace designer, memail if you have questions.
posted by j810c at 9:04 PM on February 27

Response by poster: Unfortunately we’re tied to Google Calendar as a place to create events. Automatically propagating events from Google to SquareSpace may be a possibility though, depending on what SquareSpace offers by way of an API. I’ll take a look.
posted by Tell Me No Lies at 6:44 AM on February 28

I would try Sociablekit
posted by beyond_pink at 10:34 AM on February 28

On a Wordpress website I helped administer, we used Google Calendar for the "data store," but presented information from it using a plugin, which made the output look native to the site. There are dozens of plugins that will do this.
posted by adamrice at 1:48 PM on February 28