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How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar
February 15th, 2009
| By Sahana Mysore | 50 Comments » |
We’re all well aware of the many web tools that exist to help us make ourselves more social, efficient, effective, etc — Facebook being one of the many. Some of us use so many that managing the tools themselves often requires another utility. It’s becoming increasingly complicated, and as a solution, Inside Facebook recently discussed syncing Twitter and Facebook status updates for all those who want to sync their updates on both sites.
Well, for those out there who use Google and Facebook to manage events and calendaring, here’s another how-to that might not only make your busy lives a little less complicated, but will relieve you of the pain of having to keep up between multiple calendars.
How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Calendar
1) After you log into Facebook, click on “Events” in the right-hand panel.
2) Then click on “Export Events” and copy the URL (which you will use later). Make sure you keep the address of the URL to yourself, lest everyone have access to your Facebook events…
3) Log into Google Calendar and choose “Add” under “Other calendars.” Then choose “Add by URL”
4) Paste the URL you copied from Facebook and click “Add”
Voila, you’re done! Your Google calendar will now update automatically every time you accept or decline an event in Facebook.
Enjoy being even more organized!
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February 15th, 2009 at 10:48 am
Done and done! ^_^
February 15th, 2009 at 12:27 pm
Just tried it, works really well.
February 15th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
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February 15th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
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February 15th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Thank you!
February 15th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
Thanks very much!!
February 15th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
A good post with instructions is very valuable. Now I can direct people here when asked about the sync. I commented on Friendfeed, then felt the need to write my two cents at my blog with reference to you.
Thanks for the writing inspiration!
@nakeva
February 15th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Also works in Windows Live Calendar for me through Subscribe (added the 2 upcoming i have)
February 16th, 2009 at 12:29 am
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February 16th, 2009 at 7:31 am
Hey,
This is great! Wonder if there is a way to sync just dates from a group I created on Facebook.
K
February 16th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
awesome. i had been exporting .ics files and manually importing to google on a semi-regular basis under My Calendars. but this subscription is much better. i wish there was a way to distinguish between events i RSVP’d YES vs MAYBE
February 17th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
To grab also the event you are maybe attending, not attending and/or declined, there is fbcal.com
You can also get your friend’s birthday with fbcal.com
Enjoy
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:16 am
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February 27th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
I noticed that synchronization to Google Calendar using the Facebook URL is not instant. For me it took more than an hour to get an event that I RSVPed for in Facebook to Google.
What are your experiences with the timing of the sync? I assume Google does periodic polling of the URL to check for changes. The question is how often does it do it.
March 1st, 2009 at 2:15 pm
THANKS FOR SHARING THIS!
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:22 am
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March 2nd, 2009 at 6:27 am
It’s a great feature to show Facebook events that are upcoming but once an event is in the past it disappears from my Google calendar which I hate. I want a permanent record of the events I attended, is there any way to make the events permanent or auto-copy to my primary Google calendar?
Thanks
March 3rd, 2009 at 5:19 am
This may have been answered elsewhere, but I am not sure where to find it (and it may be a very basic question).
If we have an existing database of events, exported as XML or we can dynamically create a URL string, is there anyway to create a link that checks for pre-existing / creates an event to Facebook. It would need to automatically check to see if the event has already been created and if it had, check to see who is attending …
Effectively, create and invite to event functionality delivered as a URL link (with the event details in the link itself) …
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:43 am
thanx!
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March 9th, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Is there any way to sync in the other direction (aka: import outside calendars)?
I’d like to set up a few different google calendars for geographical subgroups of a larger group, but aggregate the events from all of the google calendars into a single facebook calendar for the parent group.
March 26th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
This is nice, but somehow these events from facebook are tagged as being in Grenich Mean Time, which means that they show up 4 hours earlier on my Eastern Standard Time based calendar. Is there a place to adjust this either on Facebook or in Google Calendar? I haven’t found where this setting might be.
March 29th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
There are much easier ways, for example..fbcal and fbevents. Just add the app to facebook and it will sync automatically. It would also do the birthdays too.
April 1st, 2009 at 1:08 am
Here is the link to http://www.fbcal.com
With fbcal you not only get your events (even the past events), but also the birthdays of yours friends
April 8th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
great work! one slight problem. my calendar is listing events I’m NOT attending, how do I keep the unwanted events away.
It’s listing every event in my network, not just the events I said I’m attending, if that makes sense?
thanks
April 9th, 2009 at 4:42 am
Raphael Pungin – “I noticed that synchronization to Google Calendar using the Facebook URL is not instant. For me it took more than an hour to get an event that I RSVPed for in Facebook to Google.
What are your experiences with the timing of the sync? I assume Google does periodic polling of the URL to check for changes. The question is how often does it do it.”
I just realized this was the problem I was having, it takes at least an hour to update, as soon as you edit RSVP to NOT attending the event will go after 1 hour +
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April 22nd, 2009 at 9:23 am
I’m having the same problem with the imported FB calendar showing up in Greenwich Mean Time in GCal, with no way to change the time zone setting. fbcal, on the other hand, isn’t importing at all for me.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I’m also having the time zone issue is there a fix for this??
May 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I thought from the title of this article that there was a way to sync both ways between facebook and google – sadly not the case. The app is good, but only tells google what you’ve already got on Facebook. I was hoping for the other way around.
Several have asked questions about why it takes a while for the events to post. These large sites don’t want to constantly be hit by servers requesting calendar information every 5 seconds, so they develop a cache that is set to update at a given time, usually 1 hour. Most sites then upgrade their cache once per hour, which explains the lag time you’re experiencing.
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June 11th, 2009 at 9:50 am
I am not seeing that this app actually syncs the two calendars. Yes, all my previous events are there on google calendar. But when I create and rsvp to new events in FB, they do NOT show up on the google calendar. ???
June 11th, 2009 at 9:52 am
I actually don’t even understand at all why there’s a FB Cal app. You can do the same thing just as easily by just exporting your FB events URL. I thought that FB cal would actually sync my new events, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. FB really sucks if you can’t even have a URL that you can post your calendar elsewhere, and it automatically updates with new events!!!!
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July 18th, 2009 at 12:11 pm
fbcal new version does provide a way to adjust the timezone problem some of you were facing
fbcal was also adapted to support the new iPhone 3.0, see it here for info http://william-hook.com/2009/07/15/facebook-birthdays-on-iphone/
the app is here http://www.fbcal.com
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August 20th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
i am having the time zone problem too. all the events that get imported into my Google Cal are not in the correct time zone.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:20 am
The new http://www.fbcal.com application is able to fix the timezone problem. Simply select the timezone you are in and fbcal does the rest.
If you are a happy iPhone 3.0 user, you can directly subscribe to your Facebook events and Facebook birthday from your iPhone browser. Simply visit http://www.fbcal.com from your iPhone and follow the simple steps. Choose the iCal calendar for your iPhone.
September 19th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
Thanks for the info, worked great!
September 20th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
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December 4th, 2009 at 4:27 am
Thanks, works well
December 10th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Wow, guys, I am a big fan of Facebook and Google Calendar but –
THIS SUCKS BIG TIME!
First of all, you need to click a bunch things on a bunch of pages – who was the genius behind that lovely UX???
Secondly, I have 700 friends and lots of them invite me to events that I am not interested in. So, when I remove events from my Events page on Facebook – they still stay in Google Calendar.
This is horrible.
Sorry, happy holidays. But you gotta do better!
December 11th, 2009 at 8:50 am
If you want to have it the other way around, that is get events from Google Calendar into Facebook, try this app:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=164414672850
January 15th, 2010 at 9:03 am
thanks
February 7th, 2010 at 9:33 am
The new interface doesn’t have an “Export Events” link.
February 8th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
What Kirk said. :/