Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
When trying to subscribe to my (publicly shared) iCloud Calendar from Google Calender (as a view-only solution) I get the following error message:
Could not fetch the url because robots.txt prevents us from crawling the url.
Tried using webcal://, http:// and https:// .. Will this be fixed in the future?
Thanks!
Thomas
iPad 2
Hi Roly,
iCloud only provides a read only share URL. This means that you will only be able to view your calendar from Google Calendar, you won't be able to add events to it. You would have to move all of the events to your icloud calendar by exporting the "Roly Allen" one from google and importing it into the icloud one on icloud.com or with iCal.
Jason
Hi Jason,
Thanks for the reply. I'm just going to run them simultaneously and slowly let the iCloud one expire in that case.
Thanks again for the useful tips (saved me hours of extra hunting!).
Roly
It worked, Jason! Just for my own understanding, what did your "service" actually do to the original URL?
Thank you so much jasonlfunk!!!!!!!
I set up a service to handle this problem. Of course the real solution is for Google or Apple to fix it... but in the mean time this will work.
*** THIS WORKED FOR ME! *** 🙂
jasonlfunk.... Thank you! This worked beautifully!
jasonlfunk -- wonderful proxying sol'n, Thanks!
In case it helps others, one bit that stumped me for too long: the 'share URL' is from making the iCloud calendar *public*. (...I had been trying the share-with-a-friend, and using *that* resultant URL.) Maybe you could change the text to 'Enter URL for a public iCloud calendar'?
jasonlfunk -- thanks for setting up the proxy, 😀
Where and how does one contact Apple Technical Support? I'd like to be able to chat with them like that in the future too.
jasonlfunk...I have been trying to find a solution to my problem for ages so I was delighted to stumble across your service! 🙂
However, a few minutes after I added the URL to Google calendar, it comes up with an error message that says"Failed to import calendar from "webcal://icaltogcal.com/share.php c=17e039ddbb3bd17c9a8dd664c33c7f0f52d992f36cd983.15982667"
Do you know what this means and if there is a fix for it?
Thanks in advance.
The service was having some issues this morning. They seem to be intermitent with it affecting some (but not all) users. I'm not sure what the root cause is yet. Please try again later.
jasonlfunk: If you're still monitoring this... I'm trying to use https://icaltogcal.com/ but keep getting the
Sorry, that doesn't look like an iCloud calendar URL.for the URL:
I think the URL is correct and complete as I can add it as a calendar in Outlook. Any ideas?
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