In March we announced that CalDAV, an open standard for accessing
calendar data across the web, would become a partner-only API because it appeared that almost
all the API usage was driven by a few large developers. Since that announcement, we received
many requests for access to CalDAV, giving us a better understanding of developers’ use cases
and causing us to revisit that decision. In response to those requests, we are keeping the
CalDAV API public. And in the spirit of openness, today we’re also making CardDAV – an open standard for
accessing contact information across the web – available to everyone
for the first time.
Both of these APIs are getting other updates as well:
Integration with the Google APIs Console. To start using
CalDAV or CardDAV in your project, just enable it in the Console.
In addition, the CalDAV API now has a new endpoint:
https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2
Piotr Stanczyk is the Tech Lead of the Google Calendar APIs group. His current focus
is to provide next generation Calendar APIs which make developers’ lives easier. He also
participates in CalConnect consortium.
By Piotr Stanczyk,
Tech Lead