openemail bookings
Every command in this namespace, with its arguments, flags and examples.
Commands
Public links where somebody books a meeting on a person's calendar: create a booking page, change its hours, questions and rules, pause or delete it, read the times it offers, list the meetings guests booked, and approve, decline or cancel one. An API key acts for the workspace owner, and an app for the person who connected it.
Every command here also takes the global flags, such as --json, --profile and --dry-run. See the global flags
openemail bookings list-pages
List the booking pages of the person
Usage
openemail bookings list-pages [flags]
Resolves every booking page of the person, oldest first. A booking page is a public link, /book/<slug>, where somebody picks a free time and books a meeting on the calendar of that person. Each page comes with its settings in config, the link to hand to guests in url, and in counts how many of its bookings are upcoming and how many wait for approval.
status is active while the page takes bookings and paused while its link works but offers no times. problem says what stops a page from taking bookings and is null when nothing does. away lists the out of office periods that close the page. A person holds at most 25 pages, so the list comes whole and is never paged.
Examples
openemail bookings list-pagesopenemail bookings list-pages --jsonAlso available in
openemail bookings get-page
Read one booking page by id
Usage
openemail bookings get-page <id> [flags]
Looks up a single booking page and returns it in the same shape as a row of listPages, with every setting in config: the meeting lengths, where the meeting happens, the weekly hours and the dates with their own hours, the notice, the buffers and the daily limit, whether a booking waits for approval, the address its emails come from, the questions a guest is asked, how the page looks and what a guest may change afterwards.
config.availability.weekly holds seven lists, Sunday first, of the hours open on that weekday, each as minutes after midnight in config.availability.timezone. problem says what stops the page from taking bookings, and away lists the out of office periods of config.fromEmail that are running or still to come. While config.busy.outOfOffice is true the page offers no times inside them.
Arguments
<id>RequiredBooking page id such as
bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1, aslistPagesreturns it.
Examples
openemail bookings get-page bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1openemail bookings get-page bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1 --jsonAlso available in
openemail bookings create-page
Create a booking page
Usage
openemail bookings create-page --name <value> [flags] openemail bookings create-page --data <json|@file|-> [flags]
Creates a booking page and resolves with it as it is stored. The page takes bookings at once, at the link in url. Only name is required: the page starts with weekdays from 09:00 to 17:00, 30 minute meetings, four hours of notice, times up to 60 days ahead and the first address the person may send from. Anything in config replaces that default, and what it leaves out keeps it.
slug is the last part of the public link, /book/<slug>. Left out, it is made from the name. timezone says which time zone the working hours are read in when config.availability.timezone is not sent.
The times a page offers are its working hours with everything taken out that makes the person busy: their calendar events, invitations they have not declined, calendars they subscribed to, bookings they already have, the gaps the page keeps around meetings, and the days they are out of office. A booking is a calendar event organised by config.fromEmail, and the guest is told by email from that address, so the call needs emails:send beside calendar:write.
Flags
--name <value>What the page is called, shown to guests as its heading, such as
Intro call. Trimmed, 1 to 80 characters. Required, here or in--data.--slug <value>The last part of the public link: 3 to 60 lowercase letters and digits, with single hyphens between words. It is unique across OpenEmail. Left out, it is made from the name.
--timezone <value>The IANA time zone the working hours are read in, such as
Europe/Berlin, whenconfig.availability.timezoneis not sent. Defaults toUTC.--config-description <value>Text shown under the name of the page, up to 2,000 characters. Basic Markdown works: bold, italic, links and lists. Defaults to none.
--config-host-name <value>The name guests see as the person they meet, up to 80 characters. Defaults to the name of the account.
--config-durations <n,n>RepeatableThe meeting lengths a guest can pick, in minutes: 1 to 4 of them, each a multiple of 5 between 5 and 720. Defaults to
[30].--config-location-kind <value>Where the meeting happens:
videowith a fixed link invalue,phone, where the guest is asked for a number,in-personwith the address invalue, ornone. Defaults tonone.--config-location-value <value>The
https://link of avideomeeting or the address of anin-personone, up to 500 characters. It is dropped forphoneandnone.--config-availability-timezone <value>The IANA time zone the hours of the page are read in. Defaults to
timezone.--config-availability-weekly <json|@file|->Seven lists, Sunday first, of the hours open on that weekday. Each range is
{ start, end }in minutes after midnight, so{ start: 540, end: 1020 }is 09:00 to 17:00. An empty list closes the day, and a day takes at most 6 ranges. Defaults to 09:00 to 17:00 from Monday to Friday. JSON shaped asArray<Array<BookingTimeRange>>, inline or from a file with @path.--config-availability-overrides <json|@file|->Dates with their own hours, at most 180, each
{ date, ranges }.dateisYYYY-MM-DDin the time zone of the page, and an emptyrangescloses that date. Defaults to none. JSON shaped asArray<BookingDateOverride>, inline or from a file with @path.--config-rules-notice-minutes <n>How many minutes ahead a booking has to be made, from 0 to 43,200. Defaults to 240.
--config-rules-horizon-days <n>How many days ahead the page offers times, from 1 to 365. Defaults to 60.
--config-rules-interval-minutes <n>Minutes between two start times: 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90 or 120. Null, the default, steps by the length of the meeting.
--config-rules-buffer-before-minutes <n>Minutes kept free before every meeting, from 0 to 240. Defaults to 0.
--config-rules-buffer-after-minutes <n>Minutes kept free after every meeting, from 0 to 240. Defaults to 0.
--config-rules-daily-limit <n>The most bookings the page takes on one day, from 1 to 50. Null, the default, sets no limit.
--config-approvalTrue holds each new booking as a request until
approveordeclineanswers it. False, the default, confirms it at once.--config-from-email <value>The address the booking emails are sent from and the calendar events are organised by. It has to be one the owner of the page may send from. Defaults to the first such address.
--config-notify-hostWhether
fromEmailgets an email about each new, moved or cancelled booking. Defaults to true.--config-questions <json|@file|->What the guest is asked besides their name and email, at most 10, each
{ id, kind, label, required, options }.idis a stable key for the answers: 4 to 16 lowercase letters and digits, unique on the page.kindistext,long-text,phone,choiceorcheckbox.optionsholds the answers of achoicequestion, from 2 to 12, and is empty for the other kinds. Defaults to none. JSON shaped asArray<BookingQuestion>, inline or from a file with @path.--config-confirmation <value>Text shown to the guest after booking and added to the confirmation email, up to 1,000 characters. Defaults to none.
--config-redirect-url <value>An
https://page to send the guest to after booking, or an empty string for none, which is the default.--config-appearance-accent <value>The colour of buttons and the picked day, as
#rrggbb. Defaults to#18181b.--config-appearance-theme <value>autofollows the device of the guest, andlightordarkforces one. Defaults toauto.--config-appearance-show-avatarWhether the page shows the photo of the person, or their initials when they have none. Defaults to true.
--config-guest-changes-cancelWhether a guest may cancel from the link in their emails. Defaults to true.
--config-guest-changes-rescheduleWhether a guest may move the meeting from the link in their emails. Defaults to true.
--config-guest-changes-cutoff-minutes <n>How many minutes before the meeting those changes close, from 0 to 20,160. Defaults to 0.
--config-busy-addresses <a,b>RepeatableThe addresses whose invitations block time unless declined, at most 50. Null, the default, checks every address the person holds.
--config-busy-subscriptionsWhether events from calendars the person subscribed to block time. Defaults to true.
--config-busy-out-of-officeWhether the page offers no times while
fromEmailis out of office. Defaults to true.--config-seo-title <value>The title of the browser tab and of a search result, up to 120 characters. Empty, the default, uses the name of the page and the host.
--config-seo-description <value>The summary under the title in a search result, up to 300 characters. Empty, the default, uses the start of the description.
--config-seo-indexableWhether search engines may list the page. Defaults to false, which asks them not to.
--config-extra-guests <n>How many other people a guest may add to a booking, 0 to 10. Each one gets the invitation and every later change. Defaults to 0, which hides the field.
--data <json|@file|->The whole
bodyas JSON, inline, from a file with @path, or - for standard input. Flags override its keys.
Examples
openemail bookings create-page --name 'Intro call'openemail bookings create-page --name 'Intro call' --timezone Europe/Berlin --config-description 'A first conversation about your project.' --config-durations 30,60openemail bookings create-page --data @booking.jsonAlso available in
openemail bookings update-page
Change the name, the link, the status or any setting of a booking page
Usage
openemail bookings update-page <id> [flags]
Changes a booking page and resolves with it as it is stored. Send only what changes: a field left out stays as it is, and a patch with nothing in it is a 422.
config is merged, not replaced. A top-level value such as approval or fromEmail replaces the stored one. Inside location, availability, rules, appearance, guestChanges, busy and seo each field is merged on its own, so rules: { dailyLimit: 4 } leaves the notice and the buffers alone. A list is replaced whole: send every entry of durations, questions, availability.weekly or availability.overrides again, not only the ones that change.
Set status to paused to stop offering times without losing the link, and to active to offer them again. Bookings already made keep their time whatever changes. A new slug moves the page to a new link and the old one stops working, so links already handed out break.
Arguments
<id>RequiredBooking page id such as
bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1, aslistPagesreturns it.
Flags
--name <value>New name, shown to guests as the heading of the page. Trimmed, 1 to 80 characters. Left out, the name stays.
--slug <value>New last part of the public link: 3 to 60 lowercase letters and digits, with single hyphens between words. It is unique across OpenEmail. Left out, the link stays.
--status <value>activetakes bookings.pausedkeeps the link working but offers no times. Left out, it stays.--config-description <value>Text shown under the name of the page, up to 2,000 characters. Basic Markdown works: bold, italic, links and lists. An empty string clears it.
--config-host-name <value>The name guests see as the person they meet, up to 80 characters.
--config-durations <n,n>RepeatableThe meeting lengths a guest can pick, in minutes, replacing the list the page had: 1 to 4 of them, each a multiple of 5 between 5 and 720.
--config-location-kind <value>Where the meeting happens:
videowith a fixed link invalue,phone, where the guest is asked for a number,in-personwith the address invalue, ornone.--config-location-value <value>The
https://link of avideomeeting or the address of anin-personone, up to 500 characters. It is dropped forphoneandnone.--config-availability-timezone <value>The IANA time zone the hours of the page are read in, such as
Europe/Berlin.--config-availability-weekly <json|@file|->All seven lists again, Sunday first, of the hours open on that weekday. Each range is
{ start, end }in minutes after midnight, so{ start: 540, end: 1020 }is 09:00 to 17:00. An empty list closes the day, and a day takes at most 6 ranges. JSON shaped asArray<Array<BookingTimeRange>>, inline or from a file with @path.--config-availability-overrides <json|@file|->Every date with its own hours again, at most 180, each
{ date, ranges }.dateisYYYY-MM-DDin the time zone of the page, and an emptyrangescloses that date. An empty array removes them all. JSON shaped asArray<BookingDateOverride>, inline or from a file with @path.--config-rules-notice-minutes <n>How many minutes ahead a booking has to be made, from 0 to 43,200.
--config-rules-horizon-days <n>How many days ahead the page offers times, from 1 to 365.
--config-rules-interval-minutes <n>Minutes between two start times: 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45, 60, 90 or 120. Null steps by the length of the meeting.
--config-rules-buffer-before-minutes <n>Minutes kept free before every meeting, from 0 to 240.
--config-rules-buffer-after-minutes <n>Minutes kept free after every meeting, from 0 to 240.
--config-rules-daily-limit <n>The most bookings the page takes on one day, from 1 to 50. Null sets no limit.
--config-approvalTrue holds each new booking as a request until
approveordeclineanswers it. False confirms it at once. Requests already waiting keep waiting.--config-from-email <value>The address the booking emails are sent from and the calendar events are organised by. It has to be one the owner of the page may send from.
--config-notify-hostWhether
fromEmailgets an email about each new, moved or cancelled booking.--config-questions <json|@file|->Every question again, at most 10, each
{ id, kind, label, required, options }.idis a stable key for the answers: 4 to 16 lowercase letters and digits, unique on the page.kindistext,long-text,phone,choiceorcheckbox.optionsholds the answers of achoicequestion, from 2 to 12, and is empty for the other kinds. An empty array asks nothing more. JSON shaped asArray<BookingQuestion>, inline or from a file with @path.--config-confirmation <value>Text shown to the guest after booking and added to the confirmation email, up to 1,000 characters. An empty string clears it.
--config-redirect-url <value>An
https://page to send the guest to after booking, or an empty string for none.--config-appearance-accent <value>The colour of buttons and the picked day, as
#rrggbb.--config-appearance-theme <value>autofollows the device of the guest, andlightordarkforces one.--config-appearance-show-avatarWhether the page shows the photo of the person, or their initials when they have none.
--config-guest-changes-cancelWhether a guest may cancel from the link in their emails.
--config-guest-changes-rescheduleWhether a guest may move the meeting from the link in their emails.
--config-guest-changes-cutoff-minutes <n>How many minutes before the meeting those changes close, from 0 to 20,160.
--config-busy-addresses <a,b>RepeatableThe addresses whose invitations block time unless declined, at most 50. Null checks every address the person holds.
--config-busy-subscriptionsWhether events from calendars the person subscribed to block time.
--config-busy-out-of-officeWhether the page offers no times while
fromEmailis out of office.--config-seo-title <value>The title of the browser tab and of a search result, up to 120 characters. An empty string goes back to the name of the page and the host.
--config-seo-description <value>The summary under the title in a search result, up to 300 characters. An empty string goes back to the start of the description.
--config-seo-indexableWhether search engines may list the page.
--config-extra-guests <n>How many other people a guest may add to a booking, 0 to 10. Each one gets the invitation and every later change. 0 hides the field.
--data <json|@file|->The whole
patchas JSON, inline, from a file with @path, or - for standard input. Flags override its keys.
Examples
openemail bookings update-page bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1 --config-durations 45 --config-rules-buffer-after-minutes 15 --config-rules-daily-limit 4openemail bookings update-page bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1 --config-durations 45 --config-rules-buffer-after-minutes 15 --config-rules-daily-limit 4 --jsonAlso available in
openemail bookings delete-page
Delete a booking page
Usage
openemail bookings delete-page <id> [flags]
Deletes a booking page for good. Its public link stops working and the list of its bookings goes with it, so list no longer shows them and guests can no longer move or cancel through the links in their emails. The meetings already booked stay on the calendar, where calendar.cancelEvent can still call one off.
There is no undo. To stop offering times and keep the page, its link and its bookings, use updatePage with status paused.
Arguments
<id>RequiredBooking page id such as
bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1, aslistPagesreturns it.
Examples
openemail bookings delete-page bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1openemail bookings delete-page bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1 --yesAlso available in
openemail bookings list-times
List the times a booking page offers
Usage
openemail bookings list-times <id> [flags]
Resolves the start times a guest could book on a page inside a window, in order. They are the hours of the page with everything taken out that makes the person busy: their calendar events, invitations they have not declined, calendars they subscribed to, bookings they already have, the gaps the page keeps around meetings, its daily limit, its notice and the out of office periods that close it.
The window starts at from, or now, and ends at to, or 14 days later. It covers at most 62 days, and a later to is cut back to that. --duration-minutes picks which meeting length the times are for and has to be one of the durations of the page. Left out, the shortest is used. Both bounds take a Date or an ISO 8601 string, and the SDK converts a Date with toISOString().
A paused page still answers, so the times can be checked before it is turned on. A page with a problem offers nothing.
Arguments
<id>RequiredBooking page id such as
bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1, aslistPagesreturns it.
Flags
--from <when>The start of the window. Defaults to now.
--to <when>The end of the window, later than
from. Defaults to 14 days afterfrom, and counts for at most 62 days after it.--duration-minutes <n>The meeting length in minutes, one of the
durationsof the page. Defaults to the shortest.
Examples
openemail bookings list-times bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1openemail bookings list-times bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1 --duration-minutes 30openemail bookings list-times bkp_5c1e9a7b3d2f48e6a0b4c7d1 --jsonAlso available in
openemail bookings list
List the meetings guests booked, a page at a time
lsUsage
openemail bookings list [flags]
Resolves one page of bookings: the meetings guests booked on the booking pages of the person, or on one page with --page-id. A booking is a calendar event with the guest invited, so it shows wherever the calendar does, and a meeting moved or cancelled in the calendar reads as moved or cancelled here.
view picks which bookings are listed. upcoming, the default, holds the confirmed meetings that are not over. pending holds the requests that wait for approve or decline, on a page whose config.approval is true. past holds the meetings that are over and the requests nobody answered in time, and ended holds the ones that were declined or cancelled. upcoming and pending come soonest first, past and ended latest first.
Each booking names its page in --page-id and pageName, the guest in guest, what they answered in answers and its calendar event in eventId.
Add --all to walk every page: a table on a terminal, one JSON object per line when piped or with --ndjson, and one { items, hasMore, nextCursor } document with --json. --max <n> stops after that many items.
Flags
--view <value>Which bookings to list:
upcoming,pending,pastorended. Defaults toupcoming.--page-id <value>Only the bookings of this booking page, by its id. Left out, the bookings of every page of the person are listed.
--limit <n>Page size, from 1 to 100. The server defaults to 30.
--cursor <value>The
nextCursorof the previous page, passed back as it came. Leave it out for the first page.--allFetch every page and stream the items as they arrive.
--max <n>Stop after this many items. Implies
--all.--ndjsonPrint every item as one JSON object per line. Implies
--all
Examples
openemail bookings listopenemail bookings list --view pendingopenemail bookings list --all --max 100openemail bookings list --all > bookings.ndjsonAlso available in
- API
GET /bookings- TypeScript
bookings.list()- Python
bookings.list()- Ruby
bookings.list- PHP
bookings->list- Go
Bookings.List- Java
bookings().list- C#
Bookings.ListAsync
openemail bookings get
Read one booking by id
showviewUsage
openemail bookings get <id> [flags]
Looks up a single booking and returns it in the same shape as a row of list: the booking page it was made on, the guest with the time zone they booked in, what they answered to the questions of the page, where the meeting happens as the guest was told, the calendar event it is and how it ended if it did.
A booking follows its calendar event. Reading one first catches up with the calendar, so a meeting that was moved there shows its new start and end, and one that was cancelled or deleted there reads cancelled, or declined when it still waited for approval. endedBy says whether the host or the guest declined or cancelled it, and endReason holds the reason they gave. guestMailFailed is true when the last email to the guest could not be sent, and resendEmail tries again.
Arguments
<id>RequiredBooking id such as
bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2, aslistreturns it.
Examples
openemail bookings get bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2openemail bookings get bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2 --jsonAlso available in
- API
GET /bookings/{id}- TypeScript
bookings.get()- Python
bookings.get()- Ruby
bookings.get- PHP
bookings->get- Go
Bookings.Get- Java
bookings().get- C#
Bookings.GetAsync
openemail bookings approve
Confirm a booking that waits for approval
Usage
openemail bookings approve <id> [flags]
Confirms a booking that waits for approval, on a booking page whose config.approval is true. The hold on the calendar becomes a confirmed meeting, and the guest is told by email, sent from the address of the page with the calendar invitation attached. It takes no body.
The email goes out as config.fromEmail, so the call needs emails:send beside calendar:write. list with view pending reads the bookings that wait.
Arguments
<id>RequiredBooking id such as
bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2, aslistreturns it.
Examples
openemail bookings approve bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2openemail bookings approve bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2 --yesAlso available in
openemail bookings decline
Turn down a booking that waits for approval
Usage
openemail bookings decline <id> [flags]
Turns down a booking that waits for approval and frees its time, so the page offers that time again. The guest is told by email, sent from the address of the page, with reason in it when one is given. Call it with no body to decline without a reason.
The email goes out as config.fromEmail, so the call needs emails:send beside calendar:write.
Arguments
<id>RequiredBooking id such as
bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2, aslistreturns it.
Flags
--reason <value>A sentence for the guest, trimmed, at most 500 characters, included in the email they get. Left out or null, the email gives no reason.
--data <json|@file|->The whole
bodyas JSON, inline, from a file with @path, or - for standard input. Flags override its keys.
Examples
openemail bookings decline bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2openemail bookings decline bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2 --reason 'I am away that week. Please pick a time after the 20th.'openemail bookings decline bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2 --yesAlso available in
openemail bookings cancel
Cancel a booked meeting
Usage
openemail bookings cancel <id> [flags]
Cancels a meeting that has not ended yet and cancels its calendar event. The guest is told by email, sent from the address of the page with the cancellation attached, and with reason in it when one is given. Call it with no body to cancel without a reason.
A booking that still waits for approval is declined instead, so it ends as declined, not cancelled. The email goes out as config.fromEmail, so the call needs emails:send beside calendar:write.
Arguments
<id>RequiredBooking id such as
bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2, aslistreturns it.
Flags
--reason <value>A sentence for the guest, trimmed, at most 500 characters, included in the email they get. Left out or null, the email gives no reason.
--data <json|@file|->The whole
bodyas JSON, inline, from a file with @path, or - for standard input. Flags override its keys.
Examples
openemail bookings cancel bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2openemail bookings cancel bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2 --reason 'Something urgent came up. Please book another time.'openemail bookings cancel bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2 --yesAlso available in
openemail bookings resend-email
Send the guest the email about their booking again
Usage
openemail bookings resend-email <id> [flags]
Sends the guest the email that matches where the booking stands now: the request while it waits for approval, the confirmation with its invitation once it is confirmed, or the notice that it was declined or cancelled, with the reason that was given. Use it when guestMailFailed is true. It takes no body and changes nothing else about the booking.
Arguments
<id>RequiredBooking id such as
bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2, aslistreturns it.
Examples
openemail bookings resend-email bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2openemail bookings resend-email bkg_2b8d4f6a1c3e5079b6d8f0a2 --json