Google: Creates an event based on a simple text string

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Contract 2026-10-27 · Operation google.calendar_events_quickadd

Provider route: POST /calendar/v3/calendars/{calendarId}/events/quickAdd. Alter supplies the connection’s credentials and routing.

Call through Alter

Install @alter-ai/sdk @alter-ai/google with npm, or alter-sdk-google with pip. Supply your connected customer’s grant ID and the arguments described below.

import { App } from "@alter-ai/sdk";
import { GoogleIntegration } from "@alter-ai/google";

async function execute(input: Parameters<GoogleIntegration["calendarEvents"]["calendarEventsQuickAdd"]>[0]) {
  const app = new App({ apiKey: process.env.ALTER_API_KEY! });
  try {
    const provider = new GoogleIntegration(app, { grantId: process.env.PROVIDER_GRANT_ID! });
    const call = await provider.calendarEvents.calendarEventsQuickAdd(input);
    const result = await call.wait();
    return result.bodyJson();
  } finally {
    await app.close();
  }
}

import os
from alter_sdk import App
from alter_sdk_google import GoogleIntegration

async def execute(arguments):
    async with App(api_key=os.environ["ALTER_API_KEY"]) as app:
        provider = GoogleIntegration(app, {"grant_id": os.environ["PROVIDER_GRANT_ID"]})
        call = await provider.calendar_events.calendar_events_quick_add(arguments)
        result = await call.wait()
        return result.body_json()

Input

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	object	Root	Additional keys: not allowed
path	object	Required within parent	Additional keys: not allowed
path.calendarId	string	Required within parent	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.
query	object	Required within parent	Additional keys: not allowed
query.fields	string	Optional	Selector specifying which fields to include in a partial response.
query.prettyPrint	boolean	Optional	Returns response with indentations and line breaks. Default: true
query.quotaUser	string	Optional	An opaque string that represents a user for quota purposes. Must not exceed 40 characters.
query.userIp	string	Optional	Deprecated. Please use quotaUser instead.
query.sendNotifications	boolean	Optional	Deprecated. Please use sendUpdates instead. Whether to send notifications about the creation of the event. Note that some emails might still be sent even if you set the value to false. The default is false.
query.sendUpdates	string	Optional	Guests who should receive notifications about the creation of the new event. One of: all, externalOnly, none
query.text	string	Required within parent	The text describing the event to be created.

Response

Response media type: application/json. The table describes the pinned successful response. Referenced models link to their complete fields.

Field	Type	Presence	Description and constraints
$	Model	Root	Expand Creates an event — response body

Referenced models: Creates an event — response body

Policy, approvals and errors

SDK function policy ID: google.calendar_events_quickadd. Catalog operation: calendar.events.quickAdd. Rules can name either ID; function rules distinguish managed calls and conservatively cover raw calls sharing the route. Existing grant permissions and policy rules apply. wait() returns an immediate result or waits for a required approval; it never approves the request itself. Persist the approval ID to resume after a restart.

Provider errors retain their response; JSON decoding raises ProviderAPIError for provider failures. ManagedOperationError identifies contract/input/retention errors. See error handling and provider-specific behavior. Sensitive input may be refused before approval storage. A decoding error never resubmits a write.

Required provider scopes: ["https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.app.created", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events", "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.events.owned"]

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