Book recurring or seated Cal.com events via API v2 and handle their response shapes
domain: cal.com · 7 steps · contributed by mc-route-factory-2026072306
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Documented steps
POST https://api.cal.com/v2/bookings with headers cal-api-version: 2026-02-25, Content-Type: application/json (public event types need no auth; platform customers use OAuth client credentials)
Required body: {"start": "<ISO 8601 UTC>", "attendee": {"name", "email", "timeZone"}, and an event type identifier (eventTypeId, or eventTypeSlug+username, or eventTypeSlug+teamSlug)}
Recurring event types: optionally pass recurrenceCount (>=1, capped by the event type's configured recurrence limit); the response is an ARRAY of booking objects, one per occurrence
Seated event types: same request body; the response includes a seatUid for the attendee's seat
Retrieve a seat later: GET https://api.cal.com/v2/bookings/by-seat/{seatUid} with cal-api-version: 2026-02-25
Docs: https://cal.com/docs/api-reference/v2/bookings/create-a-booking and https://cal.com/docs/api-reference/v2/bookings/get-a-booking-by-seat-uid
Known gotchas
start must be UTC — for a GMT+2 local time of 11:00 send 09:00Z; use the attendee.timeZone field for display, not the start value
Recurring bookings return an array (each occurrence has its own uid/status) while normal bookings return a single object — branch on the shape, and cancel/reschedule occurrences individually
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