Create blog post using Linux terminal - GoogleCL (Google CommandLine)

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 google


The syntax for any command is
google  SERICE TASK
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 Udara

List your google docs

google docs list

Upload images to Picasa

google picasa create "Terminal images" ~/photos/*.jpg


Upload videos to Youtube

google youtube post --category my_video.mp4

More examples can be found from the example page.