Here is my little project with ESP8266. (Many thanks to Ivan (@igrr) for his incredible work on the SSL client).
We can now read/write to Google spreadsheet directly. You can fetch calendar events, and also "chat" with your ESP8266 This library implements the url forwarding used by Google so you can seamlessly get the required data.
No need to use 3rd party forwarding services like pushingbox or IFTTT (or IF/Do).
Repo: http://bit.ly/1SopEug. Please let me know of your comments and suggestions.