gcal-slack-sync

A simple and messy NodeJS script to sync Google Calendar with Slack presence.

To run:

1. Make sure you have Node installed.
2. Navigate to the directory you plan to run the app from.
3. Install the Google API package for NodeJS: npm install googleapis@27 --save
4. Install the Slack Client package for NodeJS: npm install @slack/client
5. Obtain a Slack refresh token with access privilege to dnd:write and users.profile:write
6. Copy the refresh token into the SLACK_TOKEN environment variable for your system
7. Go to https://developers.google.com/calendar/quickstart/nodejs and follow the instructions to obtain a credentials.json file.
8. Copy this credentials.json file into your app directory.
9. Run the app with node . in the app directory.
10. When prompted, grant Google with the access privileges request.
11. The app should continue by syncing your Google Calendar events with your Slack presence.
12. Subsequent runs of the app should correctly sync your Google Calendar with your Slack presence.