Discover if calendar room (resource) is bookable through the Google Calendar API

Question

In GSuite, you can set a room (resource) to be viewable by a user but not bookable.

This will show up as a crossed out (unavailable) room - see screenshot below.

How can you find out if a room is bookable by me through the Google APIs? There doesn't appear to be anything in the calendar resource that contains this information (https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/reference/rest/v1/resources.calendars#CalendarResource).

I've also tried to put in the resourceEmail of the room as the calendarId in the ACL endpoint here, but non-admins don't have access to those ACLs so it isn't useful in discovering if I'm able to book a room or not.

Answer 1

I tried replicating your scenario and the result I got was, in Google API, there was NO parameter that mentions if the resource is BOOKABLE or not.

To view the details of the resource in Google API, you can use "my_customer" in the customer field as an alias of your account's customer ID(also indicated in the documentation at this link: https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/directory/reference/rest/v1/resources.calendars/get#http-request)

Next, indicate the Resource id of your resource in the calendarResourceId field.

After clicking the EXECUTE button, you will get the following parameters with the details of your resource next to it:

200:

{
  "kind": *string*,
  "etags": *string*,
  "resourceId": *string*,
  "resourceName": *string*,
  "generatedResourceName": *string*,
  "resourceType": *string*,
  "resourceEmail": *string*,
  "capacity": *integer*,
  "resourceCategory": *string*
}

Feature Request filed in Issue Tracker:

• Discover calendar room (resource) is bookable