With the introduction of GoogleCL, Google comes to your Linux terminal. Google CL is a Python application that makes Google Data API calls through the command line. A command-line interface (CLI) is an interface where the user can tell the computer to perform specific tasks by typing commands.

Currently supported services and use are listed below:

• Blogger

$ google blogger post --title "foo" "command line posting"

• Calendar

$ google calendar add "Lunch with Jim at noon tomorrow"

• Contacts

$ google contacts list name,email > contacts.csv

• Docs

$ google docs edit --title "Shopping list"

• Picasa

$ google picasa create --album "Cat Photos" ~/photos/cats/*.jpg

• Youtube

$ google youtube post --category Education killer_robots.avi

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