Facebook – Export Facebook event directly to Google Calendar

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Facebook events have an "Export" option which gives you the possibility to either download an .ics file or email the event info.

Given these options, what's the simplest way to add an event to my Google Calendar? Is there perhaps some utility (e.g. Firefox addon or some Linux tool) that handles ics files and directs them to Google?

(Or is it indeed easiest to email the event (to my Gmail) and then click "Add to calendar" from there?)

I don't want to create a separate calendar or anything like that (as in this question), and I'd like to export only hand-picked events from Facebook.

Best Answer

I think the easiest approach would be to either e-mail the event to your Gmail account (as you suggest) or download the file from Facebook and then add it to Google from there.

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Google-calendar – Automatically open ICS files in Google Calendar

I based my solution to this off of the code to add Gmail as a mailto: handler, and adapted using information taken from Google Chrome's preferences file:

javascript:window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("webcal","https://calendar.google.com/calendar/render?cid=%s","Google Calendar");

To use it, just go to Google Calendar, open Firefox's Web Console (Ctrl+Shift+K), and paste it into the code box.

Google Calendar – How to Sync Facebook Events with Google Apps Calendar

There's an article on this here. I've not checked that it works, but it seems pretty straight forward. The essence is that instead of importing the calendar, you add the URL of your event feed as a public calendar - here's a summary of the steps:

In Facebook click on "Events"
Click on "Export Events" and copy the URL
In Google Calendar go to "Add" under "Other calendars" and choose "Add by URL"
Paste the URL you copied from Facebook and click "Add"

[Update: to make answer more complete]
If you run into issues with private events not showing properly then check out eventbusyfix.info. This site acts as an inbetween to clear the private flag and enable Gmail to show them properly (Thanks to prestomation for this tip)
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Hope that helps!

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