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At work we use Mozilla Thunderbird with Lightning plugin to manage our calendar, and I want to sync with my Google Calendar account.

The problem is that in my Google Calendar account, I have 3 specific calendars, and I just want to sync one of them.

If I use the XML option in Lighting I can't accept any invite.

I tried the iCal mode, but it didn't worked.

So I tried to use the CalDav and it worked, but it syncs all 3 of my calendars.

The Google Calendar API suggests to use this link to connect the CalDav:

https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/yourID/events

I want to sync just a single calendar of my Google Calendar Account with the Lighting plugin in Thunderbird.

Can I have some CalDav url to set just a specific calendar instead of all 3 calendars?

Thuderbird 24.5
Lightning 2.6.5

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Use the URL you suggest, https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/yourID/events, but rather than using [email protected] as the substitute for yourID, put in the calendar name instead.

To find that name, start with a Google Calendar window, then go to Settings->Calendars and click on the name of the Calendar you care about. Now scroll down to the "Calendar Address" row and look to the right of the XML/ICAL/HTML links to where it says "Calendar ID". This should look like an email address with a bunch of random-looking letters and numbers followed by @group.calendar.google.com. That whole thing is what you substitute for yourID.

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  • Correct answer, but I'd like to add that using [email protected] as the substitute for yourID gives you access to your primary calendar through CalDAV. It doesn't sync all of your calendars at once as the OP seems to suggest.
    – petersaints
    Apr 30, 2016 at 15:53
  • What authentication should be used for a Google calendar caldav? Just the user's regular login email & password?
    – ETL
    Apr 20, 2022 at 5:23
  • Worth to mention the public WebCal subscription link for single calendars: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/yourID/public/basic.ics
    – Megver83
    Jun 16 at 20:09
  • This method seems to no longer be working for newly created calendars. I get stuck in when I press the button to Find Calendars. Edit: this worked for me superuser.com/questions/1738934/…
    – Jeff
    Sep 9 at 21:45
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Try GDATA provider. It let's you sync a specific calendar from your google account. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Calendar:GDATA_Provider#Accessing_your_Calendar

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    This GDATA is actuallly the Provider for Google Calendar 0.25. This tool work with just one calendar. But I cannot accept invite from Thunderbird and its not two-way.
    – Butzke
    Jun 3, 2014 at 14:39
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For DAVx⁵, use this:

https://forums.bitfire.at/topic/1966/davx5-is-adding-google-contacts-calendar-together

The CalDAV URL is:

https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/yourID/events

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