Automating Google Calendar Screenshots with Playwright, rclone, and systemd

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I wanted a daily visual record of my Google Calendar: not a list of events exported through an API, but an image of the calendar as it looked on a given day. Taking and uploading screenshots manually was repetitive, so I built a small workflow on Ubuntu that captures a rolling seven-day view and stores each image in Google Drive. The implementation combines Python and Playwright for browser automation, rclone for uploading to Drive, and a systemd user timer for scheduling. The basic pipeline worked, but authentication turned out to be the most instructive part of the setup. The source code and

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Automating Google Calendar Screenshots with Playwright, rclone, and systemd

Automating Google Calendar Screenshots with Playwright, rclone, and systemd

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