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doolak
Community Member
February 3, 2024
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Is there a possibility to set the Busy Times through the Calendly API?

  • February 3, 2024
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Hi there,

I found only the possibility to receive the Busy Times with “List User Busy Times”, but unfortunately it seems to be no possibility to set the Busy Times through the API. This would be very useful.

Kind regards, 

Christian

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Niraj
Employee
February 7, 2024

@doolak There is no API today to set busy times. Can you share your use case so we can add it to the request? 

doolakAuthor
Community Member
February 10, 2024

@Niraj Thanks for your reply! I had planned to develop a web application that synchronizes calDAV calendars with Calendly. When I discovered that the Calendly API apparently does not offer a way to set "busy times," I decided to implement real-time synchronization of the calDAV server with Google Calendar to use that as an "interface" between the calDAV calendar and Calendly. Of course, this is not the most elegant way, but it is a well-functioning "workaround".

However, if the Calendly API were extended with the functionality to set "Busy Times," I could do without the "Google Calendar" detour for the Calendly/calDAV synchronization.

I would therefore be very happy if you could add my use case to the request.

Best regards, Christian

Employee
Niraj
Employee
February 12, 2024

@doolak Thank you. This was helpful insight and it make sense. For now, please keep checking or subscribe to our (RSS) Release Notes in Developer Portal for any updates in new APIs. 

    Dave64640
    New Community Member
    April 20, 2024

    I have to admit,  this seems like some obvious functionality too.    Rather that have calendly integrate to google/outlook something else to see any conflicts , i would like to explicitly tell calendly that a user is not available between X and Y.

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    Niraj
    Employee
    April 22, 2024

    @Dave64640 good feedback! If we were to have this, would you expect this to be at the Event Type level or at the global level (when you set your schedule and availability)?

    doolakAuthor
    Community Member
    November 6, 2024

    @Dave64640 good feedback! If we were to have this, would you expect this to be at the Event Type level or at the global level (when you set your schedule and availability)?

    The `User Busy Time” at the “Availability Level” seems to be sort of what I am thinking of. Is this an experimental feature?

    doolakAuthor
    Community Member
    March 21, 2026

    I ended up building the server-side sync I described back then. Instead of using CalDAV Busy Times via the API (which Calendly never added), I sync the CalDAV server directly with Google Calendar in real time - so Calendly always sees current availability.

    I wrote up how it works here: https://caldavconnect.de/blog/calendly-caldav-nextcloud-sync

    Hope it helps anyone still stuck on this.

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