Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Harish Bhatt
Now access Google services from command line. Google’s new utility called GoogleCL allow you to handle Google services from command line. Initial stage you can use some of the services. That are Blogger, Calendar, Contacts, Docs, Picasa, YouTube . using this tool we can easily upload albums to Picasa web. Import export contacts. add/ remove google contacts. upload videos to youtube. Post articles to blogger Etc.. There are some examples usage of GoogleCL listed below . The application is written in python. Minimum python V 2.5 running on your computer to run GoogleCL. Its working with the help of Google Data API ( gdata-python-client ).
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GoogleCL Examples By Google
Refer more Examples here
* Blogger
$ google blogger post –title “foo” “command line posting”
* Calendar
$ google calendar add “Lunch with Jim at noon tomorrow”
* Contacts
$ google contacts list name,email > contacts.csv
* Docs
$ google docs edit –title “Shopping list”
* Picasa
$ google picasa create –title “Cat Photos” ~/photos/cats/*.jpg
* Youtube
$ google youtube post –category Education killer_robots.avi
