gcalcli

gcalcli is a community-maintained CLI for working with Google Calendar from the shell. It focuses on event lookup, calendar views, event creation or import, and reminder automation rather than broader Google Workspace administration.

• List calendars and query upcoming, updated, or conflicting events across selected calendars, including agenda and calendar-style views.
• Create events with quick-add or detailed fields, delete or edit matched events, and import ICS or vCal invites into a calendar.
• Run reminder commands before upcoming events and script calendar lookups for cron jobs, shell workflows, or follow-up tooling.

• Event query commands expose real --json and --tsv output, which makes search, agenda, updates, conflicts, and calendar views workable in inspect-then-act loops.
• The command surface is shell-friendly once auth is in place: commands are flag-driven, calendar selection can be configured, and reminders can hand off to another command.
• Automation still has friction: initial auth requires your own Google Cloud OAuth client plus browser approval, edit stays interactive, and delete only becomes headless with --iamaexpert.

• You need to create your own Google Calendar API OAuth client and complete a browser-based consent flow before most commands work.
• Some mutation paths are human-first: edit always prompts, delete prompts unless you bypass it, and verbose imports can ask for confirmation per event.