AfterDawn: News

Google announced a new command line tool for some of its services on its Open Source Blog on Friday. GoogleCL is a command-line utility that provides access to various Google services. It streamlines tasks such as posting to a Blogger blog, adding events to Calendar, or editing documents on Google Docs.

GoogleCL is a pure Python application that uses the Python gdata libraries to make Google Data API calls from the command line. An example use of a Google service this way looks like this...

$ google blogger post --blog "My blog" --tags "python, googlecl, development" my_post.html
$ google calendar add "Lunch with Jason tomorrow at noon"
$ google docs edit --title "Shopping list" --editor vim

You can get more examples of GoogleCL in action right here, if that's your kind of thing.



You can download the Linux package or zipped tar archive here at:
http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

Written by: James Delahunty @ 21 Jun 2010 1:17