Today Google announced GoogleCL which is a tool designed to bring some of the Google services to the command line.

For most people using Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) or newer, installation should be very simple:

  • sudo apt-get install python-gdata
  • [download .deb package]
  • sudo dpkg -i googlecl*.deb

Here are some example scripts:

  • google calendar add "Dinner party with George today at 6pm" # add event to calendar
  • google calendar today # List events for today only.
  • google calendar list --date 2010-06-01,2010-06-30 # List events.
  • google calendar delete --title "Dinner party with George" # Delete an event.

  • google contacts add "J. Random Hacker, jrandom@example.com"
  • google contacts list name,email --title "J. Random Hacker"
  • google contacts delete --title "J. Random Hacker"

The possibilities of GoogleCL are definitely going to expand, and I can already think of some useful ways to incorporate these into some scripts of mine.

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