find the actual dates in a recurring calendar series

hand the trainer real dates instead of saying every tuesday. the bot finds your recurring google calendar event and lists its occurrences within a chosen window.

by the dusk bot team · checked 12 november 2026 · how we made this

include cancellations so nobody travels for a skipped session. this only lists dates, but dusk classes the action as a write. give it read and write access limited to this job.

pixel art: a lime pixel bot, a purple pixel bot and a pink pixel bot beside the Google Calendar mark on a white tile, an alarm clock and a calendar and a notebook, on a lilac hill in front of a calm sea with one small island, one saying "each date in order"

get event instances, in plain words

get the next four weeks laid out in order. name the repeating event and its calendar; your main calendar works too. the bot finds the series first.

name the time zone and ask for cancellations beside the scheduled dates. a long series can fill several batches, so tell it to keep going until it has the whole window.

a routine to copy

paste this into a chat with your bot

on the second tuesday of each month at 12:30, find the recurring kiln safety course on my training calendar. list the next four weeks in india time here for nikhil. keep going until all dates in that window are listed. mark cancellations and never count them as sessions to attend. never edit the series.

when: second tuesday of each month at 12:30
needs: google calendar with read and write; allow calendar and series lookups plus this action only

what comes back looks like this (an example)

kiln safety course, next four weeks
india time
- 17 november, 10:00: scheduled
- 24 november: cancelled
- 1 december, 10:00: scheduled
- 8 december, 10:00: scheduled
24 november is a week off.

good jobs for it

give a visiting trainer the dated sessions in a recurring course
spot a cancelled holiday-week session before anyone travels
list upcoming dates in your own recurring treatment series

before it runs

dusk bot counts Get Event Instances as a change: it alters something in Google Calendar, and the sending setting does not cover it. a bot you allow only to read can never call it.

the permissions Google Calendar asks for to run it: calendar.events.public.readonly, calendar.events.owned.readonly, calendar.events.readonly, calendar.readonly.

how to start

connect google calendar. give the course name and the calendar it belongs to.
allow read and write for this action and its lookups. leave event edits outside the action list.
compare the short list with your calendar. look for the right time zone and marked cancellations.
schedule that same four-week search. look at the next runs and Pause when the course ends.

limits worth knowing

start with a repeating event. a standalone appointment has no series to expand.
a date window keeps the job manageable. a request for every occurrence can run slowly or fail.
use the dates for planning sessions. an attendee limit can leave people out, so get attendance separately.

the details it works from

input	required	what it is
`eventId`	yes	REQUIRED.
`calendarId`	yes	Calendar identifier.
`timeMax`	no	Upper bound (exclusive) for an event's start time to filter by.
`timeMin`	no	Lower bound (inclusive) for an event's end time to filter by.
`timeZone`	no	Time zone used in the response.
`pageToken`	no	Token specifying which result page to return.

from composio's catalog for Google Calendar (action GOOGLECALENDAR_EVENTS_INSTANCES, read 12 november 2026⁴). your bot fills these in from what you tell it.

try it in 2 minutes

name the calendar and repeating meeting
ask for the next four weeks in your time zone, including cancellations
compare one scheduled date and one skipped date with your calendar

mistakes people make

treating every returned date as a meeting to attend

show cancellation status beside each date.

using it as a complete guest list

get attendance separately. the returned details can omit people.

questions

will this change the repeating meeting?

no meetings change. it only lists occurrences. dusk counts this action as a change, so read and write is still required.

can it include the skipped dates?

yes, ask for cancelled occurrences too. show their status beside each date and compare the short list with your calendar.

sources

dusk bot docs: files and apps
dusk bot docs: routines
dusk bot docs: a bot's computer
composio, Google Calendar toolkit (catalog version 20261103_00), checked 12 november 2026

drafted with ai help from the dusk bot docs and the sources listed on this page, then checked against them. if something here is wrong or out of date, write to [email protected].