With the release of GoogleCL, the command line tool for the Google data APIs, Google reconfirmed if that was needed that it’s a geeky company (I mean you would not expect something like this form M$, right?) and they like command line tools. They released some basic command line tools for calendar, contacts, docs, picassa, blogger and youtube. Of course, coming from google the tools are written in their preferred language, python.

~$ google
> help
Welcome to the Google CL tool!
Commands are broken into several parts: service, task, options, and arguments.
For example, in the command
"> picasa post --title "My Cat Photos" photos/cats/*"
the service is "picasa", the task is "post", the single option is a name of "My Cat Photos", and the argument is the path to the photos.
The available services are 'picasa', 'blogger', 'youtube', 'docs', 'contacts', 'calendar'
Enter "> help <service>" for more information on a service.
Or, just "quit" to quit.

Read the rest of this entry »