nextmeeting - Show your calendar next meeting in your waybar or polybar

What is it?

nextmeeting is a simple CLI leveraging gcalcli to show the next meetings.

It has a few features compared to just gcalcli :

• bar integration (i.e: waybar/polybar and probably others)
• smart date in English (not just the date, tomorrow or others)
• show the time to go for current meeting
• change colors if there is 5 minutes to go to the meeting
• hyperlink in default view to click on terminal
• notification via notify-send 5 minutes before meeting
• title ellipsis
• Exclude next day meetings.

Screenshot

How to use it?

You need to install gcalcli and setup the google Oauth integration with google calendar.

By default you can start nextmeeting and it will show the list of meetings you have with "human date".

There is a few options to customize things, see nextmeeting --help for more options.

Waybar

A more interesting use of nextmeeting is the integration with waybar, to output nicely on your desktop, for example my configuration look like this:

    "custom/agenda": {
        "format": "{}",
        "exec": "nextmeeting --max-title-length 30 --waybar",
        "on-click": "nextmeeting --open-meet-url",
        "on-click-right": "kitty -- /bin/bash -c \"batz;echo;cal -3;echo;nextmeeting;read;\";",
        "interval": 59,
        "return-type": "json",
        "tooltip": "true"
    },

This will show how long i have until the next meeting. If I click on the item it will open the meet URL attached to the event. If I hit via a right click it will launch a kitty terminal to show the time zones with batz and my next meeting. I can click on the title in the terminal and it will open the meet URL.

Styling

You can style some of the waybar item with the following CSS:

#custom-agenda {
  color: #696969;
}

If you enable the option "--notify-min-before-events it will output a class soon if the events is coming soon, you can style it with:

#custom-agenda.soon {
  color: #eb4d4b;
}

Installation

Use pip with:

pip install -U nextmeeting

or Checkout the source of this repo and use poetry :

poetry run nextmeeting

If you don't want to use poetry you can install the depndences packages from PyPi or from your operating system package manager if available:

• https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/
• https://pypi.org/project/gcalcli/

And the you can run the nextmeeting script:

python3 ./nextmeeting/cli.py

alternatively you can even just copy the ./nextmeeting/cli.py script to your path and run it to make it more convenient.

AUR

yay -S nextmeeting

Related

• For Gnome: gnome-next-meeting-applet

Copyright

Apache-2.0

Authors

• Chmouel Boudjnah https://github.com/chmouel
  • Fediverse - <@[email protected]>
  • Twitter - <@chmouel>
  • Blog - <https://blog.chmouel.com>