Google Calendar and Slack integration

This n8n workflow takes Slack conversations and turns them into Calendar events complete with accurate date and times and location information. Adding and removing attendees are also managed automatically. How it works Workflow monitors a Slack channel for invite messages with a "📅" reaction and sends this to the AI agent. AI agent parses the message determining the time, date and location. Using its Location tool, the AI agent searches for the precise location address from Google Maps. Using its Calendar tool, the AI agent creates a Google Calendar invite with the title, description and location address for the user. Back in the Slack channel, others can RSVP to the invite by reacting with the "✅" emjoi. The workflow polls the message after a while and adds the users who have reacted to the Calendar Invite as attendees. Conversely, removing any attendees who have since removed their reaction. Examples Jill: "Hey team, I'm organising a round of Laser Tag (Bunker 51) next Thursday around 6pm. Please RSVP with a ✅" AI: "I've helped you create an event in your calendar https://cal.google.com/..." Jack: "✅" AI: "I've added Jack to the event as an attendee". Requirements Slack channel to attach the workflow OpenAI account to use a GPT model Google Calendar to create and update events Customising the Workflow This workflow can work with other messaging platforms that support reactions or tagging like features such as discord. Don't use Google Calendar? Swap it out for Outlook or your own. Use any combinations of emjoi reactions and add new rules like "RSVP maybe" which could send reminder updates nearer the event date.

How it works This template uses a slack app to connect with your google calendar, generate an instant google meet link and post it as a message in a slack channel Setup steps Firstly, you'll need to create a slack app Authenticate and connect your slack account Connect and choose the Google calendar you want to generate Google meet links for Customize your slack message Then using a /meet command in slack, you can instantly generate and post your Google meet links

I'm currently trialing a 4 day work week for all staff at my company, and one of the major impacts on productivity is interruptions. As such, I opted to use N8N to create a workflow to monitor my Google Calendar and when an event starts, to update my Slack status with an emote and the title of the calendar task. Additionally I opted to include to change the colour of Philips Hue lamp located in my living room where my wife is currently working so she know's if she can interrupt me or not. My calendar is built on the theory behind the Diary Detox system and as such the Slack Status reflect the colours involved. This was achieved using the emote aliases for the relevant colour circles. The Philips Hue lamp status is changed via the local API with Home Assistant. This is a very similiar process to controlling it with something like the Streamdeck, but the workflow calls the Webhook instead of the Streamdeck. This process can be found in lots of Youtube videos such as this. This gives my wife a very quick and easy way to know if she can interrupt me in my office (when the lights are Green or Blue) or when I'm busy (Red). Please Note: The above images are not intended to be an incentive to create your own Squid Games. Additionally, when integrating Slack with N8N, there are 2 x APIs which can be used. Typically the Bot User OAuth Token is used, however in order for your Status to be updated, the User OAuth Token must be used with the users.profile:read and users.profile:write permissions enabled. For clarity, I have removed the Webhooks from the Workflow as this would allow any person to control my lights. These can be inserted in the HTTP Request nodes. Each node responds to a different automation within the Home Assistant infrastructure. Acknowledgement: I would also credit Jon (Discord) aka 8668 (Workflows) for writing the Function node which turns the ColorID into a named variable.

This workflow will trigger daily at 6am to retrieve your day's calendar events from Google Calendar and send them as a summary message to Slack. I've used a low-code method to filter the dates as I can't code much in JSON :) Contact me on https://twitter.com/sami_abid if you have any questions!