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Print at Oct 28, 2025, 4:14:09 AM

Posted by support at Nov 4, 2016, 6:45:39 PM

Re: Trouble merging Google Calendar
We call the url exactly as it's passed. That article is 4 years old, and there are numerous entries in the comment section like this one:

well andy I've been trying to make this work for years but doesn't work. basically no only does it refreshes the calendar but actually nothing is coming up now. I'm using &noCache at the end of the URL. in the beginning neither the & nor the ? did work. Was giving a sort of parsing error from Google... However as said nothing happens.

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I think the reason why so many people are saying it "doesn't work" is that this only gives a *one-time refresh*. After that, the calendar is back on the "about-once-per-day" refresh schedule. What Google really needs is a way to refresh subscribed calendars more than once per day... and neither this, nor any other method I've researched, accomplishes that.

Back to the original poster though, who had an even stranger problem. In brandonsteven's case, his Google feed actually contained duplicate events! The events weren't just the old version, both the old and new versions were present. That is really strange, and something that would need to be addressed directly with Google.

Meanwhile, regarding the refresh issue: ever since we've supported an iCal export at localendar, we have generated a clean up-to-date feed each time. Why Google can't simply do the same after years of complaints and with all their $$ and resources is something I do not understand.
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