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# List User Busy Times

GET https://api.calendly.com/user_busy_times

Returns an ascending list of user internal and external scheduled events within a specified date range.

Date range can be no greater than 1 week (7 days).

**NOTE:**

* This endpoint does not support traditional keyset pagination.
* External events will only be returned for calendars that have "Check for conflicts" configured.

> `availability:read`

Reference: https://developer.calendly.com/api-docs/calendly-api/availability/list-user-busy-times

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — OAuth 2.0
- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — Personal Access Token

## Request

### Query parameters

- `user` (string, required) — The uri associated with the user
- `start_time` (string, required) — Start time of the requested availability range. Date cannot be in the past.
- `end_time` (string, required) — End time of the requested availability range. Date must be in the future of start_time.

## Response

### 200

OK

- `collection` (list of UserBusyTime, required) — The set of internal and external scheduled calendar events matching the criteria

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

Request is not valid

- `title` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `Internal Server Error`
- `message` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request.`
- `details` (list of ErrorResponseDetailsItem, optional)

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Cannot authenticate caller

- `title` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `Internal Server Error`
- `message` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request.`
- `details` (list of ErrorResponseDetailsItem, optional)

### 403 Forbidden Error

Caller not authorized to perform this action or insufficient scope

- `List-user-busy-timesRequestForbiddenError`

### 404 Not Found Error

Requested resource not found

- `title` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `Internal Server Error`
- `message` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request.`
- `details` (list of ErrorResponseDetailsItem, optional)

### 424 Failed Dependency Error

Unable to access external calendar

- `title` (string, required)
- `message` (string, required)
- `details` (list of ErrorResponseDetailsItem, optional)

### 500 Internal Server Error

An error has occurred on the server

- `title` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `Internal Server Error`
- `message` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented it from fulfilling the request.`
- `details` (list of ErrorResponseDetailsItem, optional)

## Types

### UserBusyTime

An internal or external scheduled event for a given user

- `type` (enum, required) — Indicates whether the scheduled event is internal ('calendly' or 'reserved') or external
  - Allowed values: `calendly`, `reserved`, `external`
- `start_time` (string, required) — The start time of the scheduled event in UTC time
- `end_time` (string, required) — The end time of the scheduled event in UTC time
- `buffered_start_time` (string, optional) — The start time of the calendly event, as calculated by any "before" buffer set by the user
- `buffered_end_time` (string, optional) — The end time of the calendly event, as calculated by any "after" buffer set by the user
- `event` (UserBusyTimeEvent, optional)

### ErrorResponseDetailsItem

- `message` (string, required)
- `parameter` (string, optional)
- `code` (string, optional)

### UserNotInOrganizationError

Permission Denied or caller not authorized to perform this action

- `title` (enum, optional)
  - Allowed values: `Permission Denied`
- `message` (enum, optional)
  - Allowed values: `This user is not in your organization`

### InsufficientScopeError

Caller does not have required oauth scopes

- `title` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `Insufficient scope`
- `message` (enum, required)
  - Allowed values: `This operation requires the scopes listed in the 'required_scopes' array.`
- `required_scopes` (list of string, required)

### UserBusyTimeEvent

- `uri` (string, required) — The uri associated with the calendly scheduled event

## Examples

**Response**

```json
{
  "collection": [
    {
      "type": "calendly",
      "start_time": "2020-01-02T20:00:00.000000Z",
      "end_time": "2020-01-02T20:30:00.000000Z",
      "buffered_start_time": "2020-01-02T19:30:00.000000Z",
      "buffered_end_time": "2020-01-02T21:00:00.000000Z",
      "event": {
        "uri": "https://api.calendly.com/scheduled_events/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "calendly",
      "start_time": "2020-01-05T20:00:00.000000Z",
      "end_time": "2020-01-05T20:30:00.000000Z",
      "buffered_start_time": "2020-01-05T19:30:00.000000Z",
      "buffered_end_time": "2020-01-05T21:00:00.000000Z",
      "event": {
        "uri": "https://api.calendly.com/scheduled_events/BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB"
      }
    },
    {
      "type": "reserved",
      "start_time": "2020-01-07T17:00:00.000000Z",
      "end_time": "2020-01-07T17:30:00.000000Z"
    },
    {
      "type": "reserved",
      "start_time": "2020-01-07T18:00:00.000000Z",
      "end_time": "2020-01-07T18:30:00.000000Z"
    },
    {
      "type": "external",
      "start_time": "2020-01-07T20:00:00.000000Z",
      "end_time": "2020-01-07T20:30:00.000000Z"
    }
  ]
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python User Busy Times
import requests

url = "https://api.calendly.com/user_busy_times"

querystring = {"end_time":"2020-01-08T20:30:00.000000Z","start_time":"2020-01-02T20:00:00.000000Z","user":"https://api.calendly.com/users/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"}

headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer <token>"}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)

print(response.json())
```

```javascript User Busy Times
const url = 'https://api.calendly.com/user_busy_times?end_time=2020-01-08T20%3A30%3A00.000000Z&start_time=2020-01-02T20%3A00%3A00.000000Z&user=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.calendly.com%2Fusers%2FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA';
const options = {method: 'GET', headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>'}};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go User Busy Times
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.calendly.com/user_busy_times?end_time=2020-01-08T20%3A30%3A00.000000Z&start_time=2020-01-02T20%3A00%3A00.000000Z&user=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.calendly.com%2Fusers%2FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby User Busy Times
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.calendly.com/user_busy_times?end_time=2020-01-08T20%3A30%3A00.000000Z&start_time=2020-01-02T20%3A00%3A00.000000Z&user=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.calendly.com%2Fusers%2FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

```java User Busy Times
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.calendly.com/user_busy_times?end_time=2020-01-08T20%3A30%3A00.000000Z&start_time=2020-01-02T20%3A00%3A00.000000Z&user=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.calendly.com%2Fusers%2FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .asString();
```

```php User Busy Times
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('GET', 'https://api.calendly.com/user_busy_times?end_time=2020-01-08T20%3A30%3A00.000000Z&start_time=2020-01-02T20%3A00%3A00.000000Z&user=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.calendly.com%2Fusers%2FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA', [
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp User Busy Times
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.calendly.com/user_busy_times?end_time=2020-01-08T20%3A30%3A00.000000Z&start_time=2020-01-02T20%3A00%3A00.000000Z&user=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.calendly.com%2Fusers%2FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift User Busy Times
import Foundation

let headers = ["Authorization": "Bearer <token>"]

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.calendly.com/user_busy_times?end_time=2020-01-08T20%3A30%3A00.000000Z&start_time=2020-01-02T20%3A00%3A00.000000Z&user=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.calendly.com%2Fusers%2FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "GET"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```