Google Introduces Command Line Utility

Posted 06/18/2010 at 6:36pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Does your life feel savorless? Ridiculously easy-to-use web apps might be to blame. Google has launched a command-line utility, GoogleCL, to return the missing flavor to your life and provide an alternative way for users to interact with its popular web apps and services, including Youtube, Blogger, Picasa and Docs.

Of course, the tool is not meant for the ordinary user as it can be a bit tedious for most users spoilt by prolongsed exposure to graphical user interfaces. And it might not take long before it begins to wear on people who take the plunge just out of curiosity.

But now that it exists it surely must have a purpose and a target audience: “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,” Google said in a blog post. It can come in pretty handy for people wanting to automate certain tasks using simple scripts.