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Ask HN: How does the “Events from Gmail” to Google Calendar feature work?

3 pointsby onemiketwelveabout 3 years ago
I love this feature but maybe only 80% of services I interact with support it. (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;support.google.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;users&#x2F;answer&#x2F;9308934)<p>I&#x27;m assuming it&#x27;s NLP and parsing of the email body by Google.<p>My two questions are, is there a way to flag when this isn&#x27;t working for a service? IE it doesn&#x27;t work with popular train booking sites like omio.com<p>Secondly, if we are running our own business with calendar events, what would we need to do to make sure our own events are also parsed?

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annagrigoryan2about 3 years ago
I literally just now learned that this kind of feature exists. I use Calendly and now started to look into Cron (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cron.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cron.com&#x2F;</a>) for this.<p>Increasingly I want to stop relying on google for essential services.