Get Holidays List of a Country from Google Calendar API

Question

I want to extract some country's holiday list from Google Calendar API using JavaScript.

Is it Possible? How Can I do this?

Lentissimo

I don't believe google holds list of holidays for different countries in any API. You can find public calendars with country specific holidays though. – Hurtado

Answer 1

Yes, using Google API you can do that.

• Create an API app in the google developer account

• From the "Credentials" tab you can create an API key, you get something like this AIzaSyBcOT_DpEQysiwFmmmZXupKpnrOdJYAhhM

• Then, you can access holidays calendar using this URL

  https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/en.uk%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com/events?key=<YOUR API KEY>

Mockheroic

How to get another country's Calendar list ?? – Flieger

Replace the calender name on the url. If you want an indian holiday calender you can see all available holiday calenders in following url : link , subscribe the indian calendar(You can choose what you want) then you can find the calendar name from the calender settings (like this : drive.google.com/file/d/1z6S6GtWL9sfzeVu4CzH7dMCLd0IFNVzi/view). , replace it on the url (like this : drive.google.com/file/d/1VbsAhQaPiU0OUGnGRs19EaRANOwaltDh/view) – Mockheroic

hi @Midhun1993, i followed your approach. But i'm keep seeing the "Login Required" message. Please help to advise: drive.google.com/file/d/1wQ8FZPTzDXpZxvDAKNiUDKHqJeniynhd/… – Sergius

this may not be directly connected to the question, but is there an API where we could get the list of country codes... like I would want to display the countries (code) to a select dropdown. The user could then select which could he/she wants to use to get the list of holidays. – Hierarchize

Hi @BorgyManotoy i think this: restcountries.eu will help you. Please check – Mockheroic

thanks Midhun1993, but I think I needed the list of countries that I could use in the api (in your answer). Currently tested it with us, uk, singapore, china, indian, philippines, spain... but there are still a lot of countries which I want to use but don't know the value to supply in the API call. This is why I wanted to get the list of countries (code) that I could use in calling this API. Thanks – Hierarchize

looks like the link has changed. I'm getting an 404. – Mucous

Yes same - I'm going to go and look at the documentation. – Croesus

This works great for countries. Currently the API returns holidays for 3 years past one year, current year and future year for the specified country. Is there a way to get a particular year in past or in future? – Sapphera

@Sapphera have you gotten any solution? – Apples

List of calendar countries: #30834344 – Inclement

Answer 2

google provides API for holiday list.

https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/en.uk%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com/events?key=YourApiKey

1. like we want holiday list for USA

then, change this text in url

calendars/en.usa

Example :- https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/en.usa%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com/events?key=YourApiKey

after this,

2. we get all Holiday event list in "items" Array.

like this,

 "items": [
  {
   "kind": "calendar#event",
   "etag": "\"3101513576000000\"",
   "id": "20200101_60o30dr46oo30c1g60o30dr56g",
   "status": "confirmed",
   "htmlLink": "https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=MjAyMDAxMDFfNjBvMzBkcjQ2b28zMGMxZzYwbzMwZHI1NmcgZW4udXNhI2hvbGlkYXlAdg",
   "created": "2019-02-21T13:46:28.000Z",
   "updated": "2019-02-21T13:46:28.000Z",
   "summary": "New Year's Day",
   "creator": {
    "email": "en.usa#[email protected]",
    "displayName": "Holidays in United States",
    "self": true
   },
   "organizer": {
    "email": "en.usa#[email protected]",
    "displayName": "Holidays in United States",
    "self": true
   },
   "start": {
    "date": "2020-01-01"
   },
   "end": {
    "date": "2020-01-02"
   },
   "transparency": "transparent",
   "visibility": "public",
   "iCalUID": "[email protected]",
   "sequence": 0
  },
  {
.........

we will get all detail in there like, Holiday name of day in "summary" key

"summary": "New Year's Day",

Disclimax

Answer 3

https://gist.github.com/dhoeric/76bd1c15168ee0ee61ad3bf1730dcb65

Here is the list of all countries.

need to replace en.indian.official#[email protected] in url.

https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/**en.uk%23holiday%40group.v.calendar.google.com**/events?key=YourApiKey

highlighted part need to replace. If you get authentication error then replace

# with %23 and @ with %40

Due some parsing issue it gives authentication issue.

Mantle