Google Calendar Birthday Reminder Script

This Python script creates reminders for every birthday event in your Google Calendar.

Motivation

It has always bugged me that contacts.google.com lets you set birthdates for people and automatically creates events on calendar.google.com, but there is no way to get reminded of these events.

This script is a workaround to for this problem. So I would only recommend using it if you absolutely need this feature.

This project is only possible because of windmark's unofficial google-reminder-api-wrapper

Prerequisites

Modules

This script was written in Python 3.7, it requires the following modules:

• google-api-python-client
• google-auth-httplib2
• google-auth-oauthlib
• python-dotenv
• python-dateutil

Other requirements

Calendar credentials

Download the Google Calendar api credentials for your account by following step 1 on the following site and move credentials.json into the projects root folder.

Reminder credentials

Follow the following steps on how to manually get the credentials required to access the reminder api.
You will need the SID, HSID, SSID, APISID, SAPISID, authorization and key.

from windmark's google-reminder-api-wrapper

Finding Credentials

Credentials can be found by doing the following

1. Go to Google Calendar, https://calendar.google.com and make sure the "Reminder" calendar is marked.

2. Open the "Network" tab of the Chrome Developer Tool and search for reminders / list

3. In the "Header" sub-tab, find the required headers in the "Request Header"

Lastly, add these headers to the auth.env file in the projects root folder.

(Tip: if Chrome doesn't show you the full headers you might want to try it in a different browser.)

Deployment

Optional Arguments

• --delete
  Removes all reminders created by this script.
• --days n
  Specify how many days in advance the reminder should be set
  default: 0
• --time hh[:mm[:ss]]
  Specify at what time of day the reminders should be set
  default: 07:00:00

# in the project's root directory
pip install -r requirements.txt
python . [arguments]

Docker

docker build --tag gc_bd_reminder .
docker run gc_bd_reminder [arguments]

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details