As you know Linux terminal is a very powerful tool which allows the user to perform almost everything on your Linux machine. It is the best tool a developer should get used to. Most developers use Google services such as email, blogger, youtube, docs, calender, picasa and finance. In order to consume these services users have to use a web browser like Firefox or Chrome. But can’t we use our best tool, Linux terminal for it.
googlecl allows above services to be accessed via Linux commandline. You can
- Create blog posts
- Add calendar events
- View your google docs
- Add calendar events
- Upload images to Picasa
- Upload videos to Youtube
Step 1 – Install
sudo apt-get install googlecl
The syntax for any command is
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services include blogger, docs, contacts, youtube, picaza and finance
Create a blog post
google blogger post --title "Terminal Blogging" "This post is created via Linux terminal"
List your contacts
google contacts list
List your google docs
google docs list
Upload images to Picasa
<tt>google picasa create "Terminal images" ~/photos/*.jpg</tt>
Upload videos to Youtube
<tt>google youtube post --category my_video.mp4</tt>
More examples can be found from the example page.
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