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Block daily salah windows in Google Calendar with Telegram and IslamicAPI Workflow Solution

Block daily salah windows in Google Calendar with Telegram and IslamicAPI

clients kept booking meetings during my prayer times.

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clients kept booking meetings during my prayer times. i'd either miss a prayer or scramble to reschedule. the problem wasn't the clients — it was that my calendar had no blocked windows for salah. i needed a way to block those times every day, automatically, without thinking about it. what this does i built this so i can send /salah to my Telegram bot and it instantly fetches today's prayer times from IslamicAPI (using the Egyptian General Authority of Survey method for Cairo), calculates a realistic time window for each prayer, blocks all five prayers directly in Google Calendar, logs everything to a Google Sheet, then sends me a confirmation message on Telegram with the exact time windows. prayer times shift daily — this accounts for that automatically. what's inside Telegram Trigger — listens for incoming messages from the bot Validate the Sender — blocks anyone who isn't me from running this Check if it's Text — filters out non-text messages like stickers or photos Check for Triggers — only proceeds if the message is /salah Send an Action — sends a typing indicator while the workflow runs Get Prayer Times — fetches today's prayer times via IslamicAPI Map Prayer Data — extracts and formats the raw API response Code in JavaScript — calculates start and end windows per prayer Book for Fajr / Dhuhr / Asr / Maghrib / Isha — creates five Google Calendar events Map Outputs — bundles all calendar IDs and times into one object Store Prayer Bookings — appends a row to Google Sheets for tracking Send the Message — sends a formatted confirmation back to me on Telegram Error Trigger — catches failures and logs them to a separate sheet APIs used IslamicAPI — fetches today's accurate prayer times by coordinates Google Calendar — creates and holds the five prayer block events Google Sheets — logs each booking run with full timestamps and event IDs Telegram Bot API — receives the /salah command and sends the confirmation estimated cost per run free — IslamicAPI is free forever, Google and Telegram APIs have no per-call cost at this usage level. Created by Gurey AI other workflows i've built Full Email inbox managing system Client Onboarding Form Rag AI Agent more workflows coming soon — follow along Need Help? Email me with your questions my email or ask in the Forum! Happy Hacking!

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Categories

AI/MLCommunicationProductivity

Services

Google SheetsTelegramGoogle Calendar

Use cases

email workflow automationoperations productivity