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PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:10 am


Google has recently announced, like two days ago, the Googlecl project which brings the ability to access Google services from the command line. Currently the only things that is supported is:

  • Picasa (photos)
  • Docs
  • YouTube
  • Blogger
  • Calendar
  • Contacts


But they are wanting it to be able to do more as Python libs develop, or as they write their own libs to make up for the lack of support in their API. Some examples as to what you can do with it:

$ google blogger post --tags "GoogleCL, awesome" --title "Test Post" "I'm posting from the command line"

$ google calendar add "Dinner party with George today at 6pm"

$ google contacts list name,email --title "J. Random Hacker"

$ google docs edit --title "Shopping list" --editor vim

(Yea that just happened!)
$ google picasa post --title "Vermont Test" ~/old_photos/*.jpg

$ google youtube list


To read more about it, to get it, report bugs/wishlists, or to contribute to it please see their project page at Google Code

Tip: if on a Mac it can be easily installed with Macports by running this command
$ sudo port install googlecl
PostPosted: Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:37 am


finally Google kicked Microsoft to the curb

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 24, 2010 3:10 pm


Yay, I can do Google scripting in BASH... But I'd rather see them expose a RESTful API for all their services so I could just use Curl.
PostPosted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 3:36 am


Same here but I'll be glad when they get their API in place enough to be able to do a Google search from the command line.

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