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Troubleshooting Google Calendar event search in Zapier

  • December 28, 2025
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Hello there

 

I’m a beginner and this is my first time posting here. 

I’m building a zap that automatically compiles and sends all of each day’s google calendar events to gmail. However, I am having a problem with finding events. After testing the zap says 

Failed to find an event in Google Calendar

Error from halted execution: Nothing could be found for the search.

What could be the issue? while on it how do I set the start time before and end time after?

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Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • December 28, 2025

Hi ​@Jane Maingi 

For us to have more info, post these screenshots:

  • how your Zap step is configured in the CONFIGURE tab while in EDIT mode with the field mappings visible
  • the encountered error

Sparsh from Automation Jinn
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Hey ​@Jane Maingi,

Here is an article about common problems in Google Calendar- https://help.zapier.com/hc/en-us/articles/8495964746381-Common-Problems-with-Google-Calendar

Referencing a potential issue here-

Find Event action isn't finding my event

Google Calendar may not find an event if the name or description contains an underscore _. When trying to find an event that contains an underscore, the Search Term field will only work if it's an exact match, or uses one of the other terms in the title or description field.

Example
If your event is called "Meeting with zapier_team", the Zap will find it with the following terms:

  • meeting
  • zapier_team

It won't find the event if the search terms are "zapier" or "team".

The error basically means that it’s successfully halted and it could not find anything based on the search parameters that you gave. For the start and end time it really depends on the logic you want to use but you can use {{Zap Meta Human Now}} to get the current time and add the number of hours dynamically.


If it still doesn’t fix it, please post screenshots of Data In, Data Out as well as how each Zap step is configured for us to have more context. Hope it helps