iCloud

Access iCloud Calendar and Notes via the iCloud web APIs. Requires an open, authenticated browser tab at https://www.icloud.com/.

Prerequisites

• An iCloud tab must be open and signed in
• The tab is detected automatically via playwright-cli tab-list

Commands

icloud calendar [--date 2d|7d|14d|30d] [--json]
icloud notes [--search "query"] [--json]
icloud notes read <note-id> [--json]
icloud --help

Calendar

Lists upcoming events from all calendars. Default range is 7 days.

icloud calendar              # Next 7 days
icloud calendar --date 1d    # Today only
icloud calendar --date 30d   # Next 30 days
icloud calendar --json       # Raw JSON output

Output includes: date, time range, title, location. Events are sorted chronologically. All-day events show "all-day" in the time column.

Notes

Lists recent notes with title and snippet, sorted by last modified.

icloud notes                          # List recent notes
icloud notes --search "meeting"       # Filter by title/snippet
icloud notes read <note-id>           # Read full note content
icloud notes --json                   # Raw JSON output

Note content is stored as gzip-compressed protobuf; the read command decompresses and extracts readable text. Some formatting may be lost.

Architecture

• Uses playwright-cli eval to execute fetch() in the iCloud page context
• Authentication is handled by the browser session cookies (no tokens needed)
• Session info (dsid, API URLs) discovered via /setup/ws/1/validate
• Calendar API: pXX-calendarws.icloud.com/ca/events
• Notes API: pXX-ckdatabasews.icloud.com/database/1/com.apple.notes/production/private/changes/zone
• Notes titles/snippets are base64-encoded UTF-8
• Notes body is gzip-compressed protobuf (text extracted heuristically)

Limitations

• Requires active iCloud session in browser (re-authenticate if session expires)
• Notes content extraction is best-effort from protobuf binary
• Calendar timezone is hardcoded to Europe/Berlin (matches user preference)
• Notes pagination limited to 10 iterations (~500 notes max)