How to access the Calendar ICS File via URL

[benjay]

Hi Guys,

I moved from owncloud to nextcloud - and I`m really happy so far.
Next Topic will be to access my calendar as an ICS file. In Owncould you had the chance to
access the Calendar externally by adding the &export function behind the the Calendar URL - for example.:

http://<ownCloud-User>:<ownCloud-Password>@example.com/owncloud/remote.php/dav/calendars/<ownCloud-User>/<Calendername>?export

With NextCloud 11.0.1 and Calendar App 1.5 this seems no to be possible - as the ?export funtion seems not to work and the Primary CalDAV Address is listed as
http://<myhost.internet.org>/remote.php/dav/.

The IOS CalDAV Adress is listed as
http://<myhost.internet.org>/remote.php/dav/principals/users/USERNAME/

Any chance to access the Calendar directly to get an ICS file exported?

I`d like to add the Calendar into my HomeAutomation System - therefore an ICS file is required.

Thx in advance
Benjay

[benjay]

Ok I found the solution

http://USER:PASSWORD@<URL_TO_BC_SERVER>/dav/calendars/<username>/<calendar_name>?export

Hope this helps

[Damien_Varrel]

i try your solution, but not works

what do you put exactly on <URL_TO_BC_SERVER> ?

thanks

[squid-f]

Hi all

Has anyone found a solution ? I am looking for the same thing.

Thanks

[Bernie_O]

Have a look here:

Download ics file by script

Hi, The download link is: https://[SERVER]/remote.php/dav/calendars/[USERNAME]/[URI]?export [URI] can be looked up in table ‘oc_calendars’ in your Nextcloud database (prefix might be different from ‘oc_’ in your installation). I also wrote a bash script that exports calendars from Nextcloud and saves them as an *.ics file. Maybe that can do the work for you. See here:

[squid-f]

Hi Bernie_O

I have been trying your syntax and some alternatives around but nothing works.

Each time, I get the error message : “unreachable calendar”.
However, it seems to connect to the server somehow as, by putting the wrong password, I will get an authentication error instead.
What I wonder now is whether the issue is with my nextcloud syntax for ICS or with the web client I am trying to sync the calendar with. In fact, I am trying to sync my nextcloud calendar within the netcourrier.com web interface.
Has anyone tried such thing before ?

Thanks!

[Bernie_O]

@squid-f

What I wonder now is whether the issue is with my nextcloud syntax for ICS or with the web client I am trying to sync the calendar with.

Have you tried entering the ics link in a browser? After authentication t should download the ics file, if everything is correct.

I am sorry, I don’t have any experience with netcourrier.com

[squid-f]

@Bernie_O

Have you tried entering the ics link in a browser? After authentication t should download the ics file, if everything is correct.

Thanks for this tip. It is the troubleshooting method I was looking for.
So, indeed, I entered the ics link in my browser and the calendar was downloaded after signing in.
Then, what you propose should work but my web client doesn’t cope with it… I am going to ask the email provider.

Thanks again !

[squid-f]

Quick follow-up.
There was a bug on my email provider side and thanks to our discussion, they are correcting it.
It means the solution proposed by Bernie_O works.
Thanks again for your great support!

[spaceman_sproggit]

I followed the process as described by Bernie_O (thanks Bernie) and saw a successful subscription between my iPad as client/subscriber and my “personal” calendar on NextCloud acting as the calDAV server.

However, even though the authentication/handshake was reported as a success by my iPad, when I go to my NextCloud Calendar and create an event, I don’t see anything replicated to the iPad.

Would be very grateful if anyone could recommend a test process to validate this approach please.

Thank you

Update It turns out that I am not nearly patient enough… About 20 minutes later, and the NextCloud appointment has just appeared in my iPad Calendar…