macOS Reminders and Calendars database

[ElZitouni]

Dear Developers,
how could I access and read out the database containing the reminders and calendar entries of apple's Reminders.app and Calendar.app for macOS?
Many thanks for your help,
Olli.

[Klaus]

Hi Olli,

maybe with AppleScript?


Best

Klaus

[ElZitouni]

Hello Klaus: I interpret your response in that from within livecode there is no way to access these macOS databases? Best wishes, Olli.

[Klaus]

Hi Olli,

sorry, I don't know...


Best

Klaus

[Klaus]

You could check the content of folder ~/Library/Calendars and see if that makes any sense to you.

[stam]

I think the files in ~/Library are binary and probably not easily useable (although happy to be corrected!)

Apple has included a fairly usable applescript API for accessing data like this.

A cursory search shows a simple examples of this - here's a youtube link for accessing the reminders.app data in simple way, but i'm sure you can probably find what you need digging into AppleScript.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi48YIiLOTA

[ElZitouni]

Thank you for the link to the video. I have also found a method in python. I'll see whether and how an applescrip; however, I have had never success in executing an applescript out of livecode in the past. It just never worked, and I was never sure what went wrong ...