WOW GoogleCL

I can now edit my google docs from the commandline in Windows!

This is great. I got a list of my contacts to the screen easily. Now I am going to try editing a google docs document.

to install google CL go here

http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

download googlecl-0.9.7.tar.gz

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/

then download gdata-2.0.10.tar.gz

Now uncommpress these files to 2 different folders then to install you have to install python.

I already had it installed.

Now go to:

C:\googlecl\gdata-2.0.10

run this command from that folder

python setup.py install

Now go to C:\googlecl\googlecl-0.9.5

and do this command as well

python setup.py install

Now go to C:\googlecl\googlecl-0.9.5\src

and run this:

python google

Now you should get a

>

now type

contacts list name,email

Now it will ask you for your email for google.

It should open your browser for you now you type in your password.

Next press enter and that is it. Soon it will print all the contact info for you.

All the info you need is here for more commands

http://code.google.com/p/googlecl/

type help and you get:

Welcome to the Google CL tool!

Commands are broken into several parts: service, task, options, and arguments.

The available services are 'picasa', 'blogger', 'youtube', 'docs', 'contacts', 'calendar'

docs command options are

Did not recognize task, please use one of ['edit', 'delete', 'list', 'upload', 'get']