"Along with HTTP Basic, Digest, and a couple of
others, this Python HTTP library [httplib2] will now handle Google-style
authentication. That's really the only tricky thing about using Google Calendar's
API. Everything else is URLs and Atom entries. There are Java and C# wrappers for
this stuff, but I'm having a ball just using Python's interactive mode to explore the Calendar
API. Among the things I can easily do: search for entries matching dentist,
search for entries after June 10, receive the results of any query as an Atom or RSS
feed..."
"Most discussion of Gcal has (appropriately) focused on its
user interface, which puts many a conventional fat client to shame in terms of both its
responsiveness and its ease of use. From my perspective, though, what matters equally is an
API that's powerful, flexible, and easy to use."
