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I see lots of "how to" guides regarding getting Facebook events into a Google Calendar. But I need to go the other way: GCal > Facebook. The events could show up either in the standard FB "events" page or in some kind of GCal widget I could embed on a FB page.

I know that GCal provides URLs for various export formats of a calendar, but I don't know how (if it's even possible) to import that into FB. And I also need the syncronization to be automatic: if I update the GCal with a new event, for example, that event should show up automatically on my FB page.

Is this type of import / synchronization possible? Can anyone tell me how?

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From what I can see is that your can sync facebook events with google calendar, but not google calendar with facebook events? Is this true? – user19166 Apr 18 '12 at 17:01

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Facebook isn't a calendar management application. There's no native method of importing events. If you have the skills, you can create your own application for that. Facebook.StackOverflow has plenty of discussions.

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You can have a try at either:

  • this facebook app - in alpha version though
  • this blog post which explains how you can export your events from Facebook and read them in your Google Calendar
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The OP asked for importing events into FB. – dnbrv Jan 18 '12 at 15:08
JMax, that first link you have to the facebook app appears to be broken. Does someone have a solution for this? I'm looking for the same thing, an app for auto-importing iCal or GCal data into a Facebook page's Events. – user19374 Apr 25 '12 at 12:09
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I'm currently trying SmartStack, with some reasonable success, though not everything I want. I create a TAB for the calendar, and use the Code widget to post the ical link you can get from your Google calendar

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I don't have a good answer. I just posted a HTML link to the Calendar under the "organization" "tab" at the upper left of the fb page (under the profile pic) It's not highly visible, but it's there. Or you can post a link to the calendar in a post and pin the post to the top of your fb page so it's always there.

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I've been using http://www.iframe-apps.com/ and so far so good. Although it has limited customization options.

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Per the FAQ "you must disclose your affiliation in your answers." Please expand your answer to disclose your affiliation and/or reasons for suggesting. – Bradley A. Tetreault Oct 12 '12 at 14:06
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Write some PHP to use the Facebook API to create events using events that you pull out of GCal.

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Servus! Why some PHP? I think this is more a comment then an answer... – Jacob Jan Tuinstra Dec 11 '12 at 19:50
Please add some more context to this answer or some possible open source tools already written to provide this solution. – Dez Dec 13 '12 at 22:19
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use www.ifttt.com. it has a way to put google events onto your facebook wall. you only have to set it up once to post all google calendar events onto your faceboook wall and you're done. it will post gcal events to fb until you tell it to stop. downside...it only dos this 15min. before each event. dont know why you cant change this. if someone figures out how please post here.

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