How to take displayName from attendees in Google Calendar node?

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1

Describe the question

So I get calendar events and I need to take names of attendees, and node can’t provide me displayName item, only email and responseStatus.

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Information on your n8n setup

  • n8n version: 0.189.1
  • Database you’re using: SQLite
  • Running n8n with the execution process: own
  • Running n8n via: Docker
2

Hey @shimaper, the Google Calendar API doesn’t seem to return this information in all cases. I suppose you could try using the Google Directory API to find information about users in your own workspace, but there is no pre-built node for this I am afraid.

3

Hello, thank you for responding, I though there is displayName in Google Calendar API, I found this structure:

{
  "items": [
    {
      "attendees": [
        {
          "email": "### email ###",
          "displayName": "### name ###",
          "responseStatus": "#####"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}
4

Yeah, I noticed that too. It actually seems to be available for some events (just chatting with @rdt about it), but I have no clue when the API returns the displayName and when it doesn’t. n8n is not removing any properties though.

5

Hm, okay, so only way is just parse the name from email address. And I found that fetching calendar in API (not event) can provide me attendees names but only for attendees for calendar, not event. Thanks for responding again

6

No worries, sorry I didn’t have anything more helpful to share here. This problem is mentioned a few times on the internet (outside of n8n context), but I couldn’t see a definitive explanation or resolution for it :frowning:

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