Intro

WEBDAV, Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning, is an extension of the HTTP to allow handling distributed authoring, versioning of various resources.

It's very common to be used for cloud storage, as well as calendar, contacts information syncing.

Cloud provider support status

Provider name	Webdav	Caldav	Carddav
iCloud	✅	✅	✅
Google cloud	✅	✅	✅
Fastmail	✅	✅	✅
Nextcloud	✅	✅	✅
Baikal	✅	✅	✅

For more information on cloud providers, go to cloud providers for more information.

Install

yarn add tsdav

or

npm install tsdav

Basic usage

Import the dependency

import { createDAVClient } from 'tsdav';

or

import tsdav from 'tsdav';

Create Client

By creating a client, you can now use all tsdav methods without supplying authentication header or accounts.

However, you can always pass in custom header or account to override the default for each request.

For Google

const client = await createDAVClient({
  serverUrl: 'https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/',
  credentials: {
    tokenUrl: 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token',
    username: 'YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS',
    refreshToken: 'YOUR_REFRESH_TOKEN_WITH_CALDAV_PERMISSION',
    clientId: 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID',
    clientSecret: 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET',
  },
  authMethod: 'Oauth',
  defaultAccountType: 'caldav',
});

or

const client = await createDAVClient({
  serverUrl: 'https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/',
  credentials: {
    authorizationCode: 'AUTH_CODE_OBTAINED_FROM_OAUTH_CALLBACK',
    tokenUrl: 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token',
    clientId: 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID',
    clientSecret: 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET',
  },
  authMethod: 'Oauth',
  defaultAccountType: 'caldav',
});

For Apple

const client = await createDAVClient({
  serverUrl: 'https://caldav.icloud.com',
  credentials: {
    username: 'YOUR_APPLE_ID',
    password: 'YOUR_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD',
  },
  authMethod: 'Basic',
  defaultAccountType: 'caldav',
});

After v1.1.0, you have a new way of creating clients.

info

You need to call client.login() with this method before using the functions

For Google

const client = new DAVClient({
  serverUrl: 'https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/',
  credentials: {
    tokenUrl: 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token',
    username: 'YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS',
    refreshToken: 'YOUR_REFRESH_TOKEN_WITH_CALDAV_PERMISSION',
    clientId: 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID',
    clientSecret: 'YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET',
  },
  authMethod: 'Oauth',
  defaultAccountType: 'caldav',
});

For Apple

const client = new DAVClient({
  serverUrl: 'https://caldav.icloud.com',
  credentials: {
    username: 'YOUR_APPLE_ID',
    password: 'YOUR_APP_SPECIFIC_PASSWORD',
  },
  authMethod: 'Basic',
  defaultAccountType: 'caldav',
});

Get calendars

const calendars = await client.fetchCalendars();

Get calendar objects on calendars

const calendarObjects = await client.fetchCalendarObjects({
  calendar: myCalendar,
});

Get specific calendar objects on calendar using urls

const calendarObjects = await client.fetchCalendarObjects({
  calendar: myCalendar,
  calendarObjectUrls: urlArray,
});

Get calendars changes from remote

const { created, updated, deleted } = await client.syncCalendars({
  calendars: myCalendars,
  detailedResult: true,
});

Get calendar object changes on a calendar from remote

const { created, updated, deleted } = (
  await client.smartCollectionSync({
    collection: {
      url: localCalendar.url,
      ctag: localCalendar.ctag,
      syncToken: localCalendar.syncToken,
      objects: localCalendarObjects,
      objectMultiGet: client.calendarMultiGet,
    },
    method: 'webdav',
    detailedResult: true,
  })
).objects;