Events: get
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Returns an event based on its Google Calendar ID. To retrieve an event using its iCalendar ID, call the events.list method using the iCalUID parameter.
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Request
HTTP request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/calendarId/events/eventId
Parameters
| Parameter name |
Value |
Description |
| Path parameters |
calendarId |
string |
Calendar identifier. To retrieve calendar IDs call the calendarList.list method. If you want to access the primary calendar of the currently logged in user, use the "primary" keyword.
|
eventId |
string |
Event identifier.
|
| Optional query parameters |
alwaysIncludeEmail |
boolean |
Deprecated and ignored. A value will always be returned in the email field for the organizer, creator and attendees, even if no real email address is available (i.e. a generated, non-working value will be provided).
|
maxAttendees |
integer |
The maximum number of attendees to include in the response. If there are more than the specified number of attendees, only the participant is returned. Optional.
|
timeZone |
string |
Time zone used in the response. Optional. The default is the time zone of the calendar.
|
Authorization
This request allows authorization with at least one of the following scopes:
| Scope |
|---|
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.readonly |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.app.created |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.freebusy |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.owned |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.owned.readonly |
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.public.readonly |
For more information, see the authentication and authorization page.
Request body
Do not supply a request body with this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns an Events resource in the response body.
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Last updated 2025-05-30 UTC.
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