How To Import Facebook Events In Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, iCloud Calendar
There are many tools such as Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, iCloud Calendar that may help you organize your appointments, schedules, work and many more. There many people, who want to wish on a friend’s birthday, or check out upcoming events on Facebook. However, some people do not like to open Facebook all the times to check upcoming events. If you are one of them and you want to find information about upcoming events on those calendar apps, here is what you can do. This is possible to import Facebook events in Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, and iCloud Calendar. That means it doesn’t matter which calendar app you use, you can certainly find this tutorial useful.
How To Export Events From Facebook?
If you are trying to import something in somewhere, you must have to export it first. That said, you need to export events from Facebook before importing them in some other tools. For your information, you can export almost every Facebook events as well as birthday. Also, this is quite easy and not much time consuming as well. The best thing is there is no need to use any third-party software, or service to get it done.
To get started, open facebook.com on your computer and enter your account credentials to log into your account. After that, click the Events option visible on your left-hand side. It should be visible under the Explore section. Alternatively, you can go to https://www.facebook.com/events/ and enter your Facebook username and password to log in.
After that, scroll down to the bottom until you find some blue links and texts like the following image-
Click the Upcoming Events or Birthdays link to download the corresponding .ics file. If you want to import all events, do select Upcoming Events. However, if you want to import only birthdays, you can select the respective link.
After downloading the .ics file, do follow the following tutorials to import Facebook events in various calendar services.
How To Import Facebook Events In Google Calendar
Google Calendar is a very well-known and hand calendar app, which is being used by many people. If you need simplicity with some handy functionality, you can head over to Google Calendar. This is very easy to manage all the events and appointments on Google Calendar. As it has a unclutter user interface, you should not find any problem using it on mobile as well as desktop.
To import Facebook events in Google Calendar, you have to open the Google Calendar on your computer. You can go to this link to open Google Calendar- https://calendar.google.com/calendar/
After that, you have to enter your Google account’s login credentials to get the calendar. After opening the calendar interface, you should find an option called Add Calendar, which is visible on your left-hand side. Click the three-dotted button, and select Import.
After that, select the .ics file that you downloaded from Facebook and click the Import button. Then, you need to follow the screen instructions to add a name and so on.
How To Import Facebook Events In Outlook Calendar
Outlook Calendar is yet another handy calendar application/service, which is accessible by every Microsoft account user. If you have a @outlook.com or @hotmail.com email ID, you can use Outlook Calendar on your desktop computer as well as mobile. Therefore, if you want to import Facebook events in outlook Calendar, here are the steps you need to follow.
At first, open the Microsoft Calendar website and enter your username and password to log in. After that, you should find an option called Discover calendars. This option should be visible on your left-hand side. A popup window should appear after clicking this button.
From the popup window, do select “From file” option. Now you need to choose the .ics file that you downloaded from Facebook and choose a calendar that you want to import into.
After that, your events will be visible in that selected calendar.
How To Import Facebook Events In iCloud Calendar
iCloud Calendar is quite popular among iPhone and iPad users since this is an inbuilt tool in the Apple ecosystem. If you are using iCloud Calendar and you want to import Facebook events in iCloud Calendar, here is what you need to do. The drawback is you cannot do that like Google Calendar and Outlook Calendar. In other words, you cannot use the web version to import any Facebook event. You need to use the iOS or macOS device to get it done. In this example, I am going to use the macOS version of Apple Calendar app.
To get started, open the Calendar app on your computer and go to File > Import.
Now you have to choose the .ics file and select a calendar that you want to use to show the events.
That’s it! This is as simple as said. I hope this tutorial will be helpful for you.